It’s called Coca-Cola Coffee Plus, and it has fifty percent more caffeine and fifty percent fewer calories.
According to Shin-Shouhin (via Get News), Coca-Cola Coffee Plus is a vending machine exclusive in Japan. Each 190ml can has 34mg of caffeine and only 42 calories. The coffee comes in the form of extract powder.
This kind of thing isn’t a first for Coca-Cola, which previously releasedCoca-Cola BlāK in Europe and the United States.
Shin-Shouhin says the drink doesn’t smell like coke, nor does it smell like coffee. The aroma is described as “curious” or “odd.” Shin-Shouhin writes, “To be frank, it’s not a very delicious aroma.” The initial taste, Shin-Shouhin continues, is cola-like, but the aftertaste is coffee. The total sensation, the site adds, isn’t one of harmony.
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“I didn’t think it tasted good, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be,” Shin-Shouhin writes, adding that different people respond to different flavors.
コカ・コーラ COFFEE PLUS
割とあっさり発見。
プチ徹夜するとき飲んでみよう pic.twitter.com/geve7dij33— SiN(・×・) 🍥 (@nSIN5) September 12, 2017
That explains why a writer for ASCII Gourmet digs the drink, saying he quite liked it.
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