> made me want to brush my teeth immediately afterwards.

Note: do not brush your teeth immediately after drinking soda. The sugar (or rather the byproducts of the digestion of sugar by bacteria in your mouth) and the phosphoric acid in the soda will temporarily soften your enamel, which will then be partially removed by brushing.

But a rinse with water would be wise and harmless right?

Correct.

It's best to wait a while. But then, when you do brush, go ahead and floss too!

> or rather the byproducts of the digestion of sugar by bacteria in your mouth)

...for now. There may be a "vaccine" for dental caries if this recently HN'd article is to be believed and isn't sponsored content:

https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-rise-and-impending-fall-of-th...

Though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caries_vaccine suggests it may not be that simple.

11.4 g per 100 g, yes. OPs example is also 11%.

That means around 33g per can so almost nothing has changed.

Yeah and in Europe the can is not 12oz (35.5cl) but 33cl

Are you sure that the difference isn't from sugar in the UK Coca Cola vs. high fructose corn syrup in US Coca Cola? The prevalence of HFCS in the US is partially (largely?) due to corn subsidies on top of the cheapness of producing HFCS [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup#Unite...

Pure water plus HFCS vs table sugar is generally indistinguishable in well conducted blind taste tests.

People can often notice the difference in products because of other factors like the water used to bottle them etc.

I realize your point may be valid because I don't know all the details... but I don't know anyone who prefers HFCS coke to Mexican/European sugar coke

The water between those 2 are totally disconnected and yet both tastes fantastic compared to American fructose coke

It matters so much to me that I have a Costco membership just to buy the stuff

It’s a little more complicated as the cokes sold in Mexico stopped using cane sugar.

However, Coca-Cola the company realized they had an easy excuse to sell a “premium” product at inflated prices so yes it very much does taste different, just as intended. https://news.yahoo.com/mexican-coke-us-still-cane-sugar-1520...

Personally I very easily notice a difference between cans, plastic bottles, and glass ones. But that never seems to be a concern for most people.

I know a lot of UK soft drinks changed their recipes in 2018 - I guess I was more surprised that Coca Cola isn't the same thing the world over.

I got rid of my car about a year ago and I got fed up of carrying bottles of the shit back from Tesco so just switched to water. I wasn't even drinking the sugar stuff. Made me think about the whole drinks industry a little.

They were a tyranny in our house too! I bought a Sodastream, HobbyBrew CO₂ cannister and an adapter to join the two together. For the cost of like 30 bottles of Diet Coke I now have cheap fizzy water and the kids can add squash to it.

I looked at doing this but calculated that the CO2 bottles work out more expensive than just buying bottled sparkling water from Lidl.

Yeah the CO2 bottles and exchange is expensive as hell. It's apparently cost effective if you use a commercial one but the outlay is pretty high. Not worth it either way IMHO. I just put up with flat shit.

There's also Sparkel, which uses a baking soda + citric acid powder in a separate reaction chamber. The cost is pretty low per bottle if you buy the bulk powders and mix it yourself; has been a while but when I had a Sparkel, I think I worked out that the cost was somewhere under 10 cents per 750ml bottle.

I was surprised to note that this is actually on par with most juices - 10% difference give or take.

Juice is not really healthy, it may not be a dangerous part of a particularly active lifestyle but for most lifestyles it probably is dangerous, especially considering that it is probably replacing whole fruit.

Exactly. The fiber content of whole fruit is one of the major benefits! You can't just replace fruit, even with "real" juice.

Coca-Cola did not change their standard "Coca-Cola Original Taste" drink to contain any less sugar in the UK.

Some other drinks (including Pepsi) have been reformulated with less sugar in the UK, but Coca Cola isn't one of them.

Not just UK. Regular Pepsi has tasted gross (because of sweeteners) in other parts of Europe too for the last few years.