Why cola in glass tastier than plastic

Coke in a plastic bottle handy to take with you and store in the refrigerator, in a Coke aluminum can quickly will give automatic, and Coke from a glass bottle to drink tasty. So consider cola lovers. Today Layfhaker try to understand why.

Packaging is important

Tastiest cola to be found in glass bottles. Best soda bottled only in glass or just in this package better preserved cola? After all, glass is chemically inert, does not have a taste and smell, so it can not pass it on drinks.

Sara Risch (Sara Risch), a biochemist, said that the package may influence the taste of cola. For example, polymers, coating aluminum cans inside can absorb part of the aromatic substances from the soda. A aldehydes of plastic, on the contrary, can fall into the beverage.

However, the probability of these processes is very low, as for food packaging uses special materials that are not in contact with the filler. Even if a pair of flavor molecules gets captured by the aluminum cans, it will not change the flavor of soda.

Study Jay Kenji Lopez Alta (J. Kenji López-Alt), the well-known culinary blogger, proving that the package has a value, but it does not influence the taste of the drink, and our perception. The blogger suggested that people try cola. First, the subjects did not know of what was poured soda. Then they showed that some of cola - from glass bottles. The results showed that in order to love Cola glass, it is necessary first to see the glass.

taste illusion

When we drink sweet drinks, our brain activates the release of dopamine - a hormone that is responsible for pleasure. But when we drink is not just soda and cola bottles of bright, dopamine receptors begin to work intensively.

Our brain when processing information almost never uses only one source, for example, only the taste buds. It should pick up a glass bottle of Coke, the other feelings come to the aid of taste. We like the way the light plays on the faces of the glass, like to keep cool the bottle in his hand, like its severity... and just think that such a delicious soft drink we have not yet drunk.

In order to love Coke, manufacturers annually invest billions in advertising. Therefore, when we want to freshen up, we imagine a full, cold, sweet glass bottle of Coke. One-to-one as in advertising.

So that the unique taste of cola glass bottle - this is a very pleasant illusion.

And yet it is different

Cola taste can vary, but it is not dependent on the packaging and on the country of origin. For example, US for creating a sweet taste used high fructose corn syrup, and in Mexico - sucrose. According to the chemical composition, they are similar, but fans of cola can find the differences in taste and aroma. By the way, in Russia do with Coke sucrose.