Food · Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Classic
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Weak nutrition · Ultra-processed · per 100 ml
A weak nutrition box and an ultra-processed recipe. A treat in a bottle, not a weekday pour.
Worse than 8 in 10 packs in Drinks. The swap is on this aisle.
A 330 ml can is about 35 g of sugar — roughly 9 teaspoons. A can a day this week is about 63 teaspoons. Per 100 ml hides that.
This pack is on an ongoing recall
Class II. Product contains plastic material.
Council note
Ultra-processed — flavours, extras, a list a kitchen would not write. A 330 ml can is about 35 g of sugar. A dietitian would not make this a weekday habit. Worse than 8 in 10 packs in Drinks. The swap is on this aisle.
The pack
Cola is water, sugar, caramel colour, and a bite of phosphoric acid. The recipe has not changed much in a century because it does not need to — it is sweet, cold, and easy to finish. One can is several teaspoons of sugar with nothing to slow it down.
How often
Rarely
Who it’s for
People who want the classic taste on purpose.
Skip if
You are watching sugar, teeth, or bone-friendly phosphate load — or you wanted a thirst quencher.
Pack
330 ml can
Origin
Worldwide
A serving
A can is a dessert. Pair it with a meal and it still counts as a dessert.
- Several teaspoons of sugar per can
- Caramel colour and phosphoric acid
- No fibre, no protein
At a glance
How often
Rarely
Nutrition box
Weak
How processed
Ultra-processed
Extras
5 additives
Planet
Mixed footprint · 52/100
Organic
Not organic
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. Cannot be rated Good — a rare treat, not a habit.
Some good signs, some industrial ones. Not the heaviest in the aisle.
No shelf price logged yet. When a shopper posts a receipt to Open Prices, it lands here.
Why this number
A weak nutrition box and an ultra-processed recipe. A treat in a bottle, not a weekday pour.
Poor · 36/100 · nutrition weak
- Nutrition quality24/100
- Ingredients85/100
- How processed16/100
- Organic0/100
What pulled it down
A weak nutrition box cannot be rated Good
Sugars, salt or saturated fat dominate this box. Poor at best — a treat, not a habit.
Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
A factory recipe — flavours, colours, or many additives — cannot be rated Good. A sometimes treat, not a daily habit.
A weak nutrition box
About 2.7 teaspoons of sugar in 100 ml. Nothing in the bottle slows that sugar down — no fibre, no protein. Sugars, salt or saturated fat dominate.
Ultra-processed
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. A growing pile of research ties a diet of these to poorer health — not because one biscuit is poison, but because the pattern crowds out real food.
Ammonia caramel
-5May contain 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI), a possible carcinogen at high doses.
Phosphoric acid
-5High phosphate load is associated with bone and kidney stress.
Natural flavouring
-5Undisclosed mixture. Usually low toxicological risk, poor transparency.
Nutrition is half the number. Ingredients a quarter. How processed a fifth. Organic is a small bonus — it cannot rescue a sugary drink or a nitrite ham. How this compares to Nutri-Score
Nutrition · per 100 ml
| Energy | 180 kJ |
|---|---|
| Sugars | 10.6 gHigh About 2.7 teaspoons of sugar in 100 ml — a can would be a lot more. |
| Saturated fat | 0 gLow |
| Salt | 0 gLow Light on salt. |
| Fibre | 0 g |
| Protein | 0 g |
Better neighbours
Same aisle, cleaner number. Ranked by how close the job is — not by who paid.
Ingredients
Carbonated water, sugar, colour (E150d), phosphoric acid (E338), natural flavourings including caffeine.
Sugar
Low concernNot a toxin. A teaspoon is a teaspoon. The issue is how many hide in drinks and breakfast.
Ammonia caramelE150c
−5May carry traces of a compound you don’t want a lot of. The brown is not flavour.
Phosphoric acidE338
−5A diet of cola is a lot of phosphate — not kind to bones if it crowds out milk and greens.
Natural flavouring
−5Not a toxin. A sign the recipe needed a perfume. You cannot tell what is inside from the words.
Water
No concernNo concern. The best everyday pour.
Citric acidE330
No concernNo health concern at usual levels.
Carbon dioxideE290
No concernNo concern. It’s the sparkle, not the sugar.
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