r/AskBalkans • u/Blaze-Amaze • Jul 10 '25

Cuisine Are these drink powders only popular in Croatia?

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Have been to HR a couple of times, but I have noticed just now these... basically sugar and aroma and EVERYONE is drinking it o_O (Guess these add a lot to the overweight problems around here.)

Is this solely a Croatian thing or a Balkans way of life, folks?

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u/MiskoSkace Slovenia Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25

One does NOT speak ill of Cedevita. It's quite popular in Slovenia.

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u/barugosamaa PT HR Jul 10 '25

On a side note, as a non-balkan, I deeply thank you all for Cockta.

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u/iq18but18cm Serbia Jul 10 '25

Cockta supremacy love it so much more than cola and pepsi

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u/barugosamaa PT HR Jul 10 '25 edited Jul 10 '25

Cola I prefer Zero, the flavour is way better than regular.
Love Pepsi because growing up in Portugal, it was the drink of Cinema, so, nostalgia.

Cockta > Pepsi > Cola Zero

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u/BeatnologicalMNE Jul 10 '25

There is Cockta zero too. It's actually quite good (if you like Cockta to begin with, some people can't stand it :D ).

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u/SuspiciousShock8294 Serbia Jul 10 '25

Cockta Zero is the only good sugarless drink of all the colas.

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u/SeKiyuri Jul 10 '25

Yea and also arguably healthier, coke zero uses aspartame as a sweetner which is “assumed” cancerogenic, but nothing wrong with it cuz it is small dosages, also it has caffeine (diet coke doesn’t but we usually don’t have that here in Serbia, I never saw it).

Cockta Zero on the other hand uses sucralose as a sweetener which isn’t associated with anything bad, while also not containing caffeine.

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u/BeatnologicalMNE Jul 11 '25

Plenty of other zero sugar drinks without aspartame though. But I do agree, it's quite good however it's always about personal choice/feel. I know people who literally can't drink a sip of Cockta for some strange reason, it makes them wanna puke and here I am, could drink litres and litres of it.

Regarding aspartame... Not sure about cancerogenic affects but I can tell you as a ex heavy zero calories drink addict. That shit messes me up whenever I drink it for prolonged period of times (cramps, hearth palpitations, brain fog here and there), however I did use to drink crazy amounts of it (on average 1.5l per day, every freaking day).

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u/Garofalin 🇧🇦🇭🇷🇨🇦 Jul 10 '25

Coca is definitely better than cola. Not so sure about cock-a , but you do you.

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u/barugosamaa PT HR Jul 10 '25

damn it xD

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u/colouredcrow Jul 10 '25

I didn't like or prefer any of the Zero versions I have tried so far, which was also by accident everytime 😂

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u/abriolo Portugal 🇵🇹 Slovenia 🇸🇮 Jul 10 '25

Hey. Another pt fellowman that moved to a balkan country.

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u/barugosamaa PT HR Jul 10 '25

more like started to date a balkan girl 9 years ago :p

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u/Hot_Green3349 Jul 10 '25

Which country would that be? Because SLO ain’t one of them

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u/trivial_sublime Jul 10 '25

You don’t know Balkan until you see an old person mixing Cockta and Cviček

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u/barugosamaa PT HR Jul 10 '25

Closest was father in law mixing Schweppes with Rakija xD

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u/PM_me_opossum_pics Jul 10 '25

Pepsi lime no sugar kinda slaps though. Been my go-to Cola type of drink for a while now. Maybe I'll just start buying Cockta no sugar and adding some lime, purely on principle.

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u/Relevant-Possible579 Jul 11 '25

Cockta Blonde is the Fanta that you drink in heaven. Except it's here now available to us thanks to the Slovenes.

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u/sjamdacnmx Serbia Jul 10 '25

PT

What do you mean non-Balkan?

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u/barugosamaa PT HR Jul 10 '25

i am together with a girl from Croatia for almost decade now, embraced the balkan culture ❤️ it was the most welcome i ever felt, since i started hanging out with Croats / Serbs / Bosnians

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u/Qjue Bulgaria Jul 11 '25

Brother, it is in your blood from before.

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u/Alone-Monk Slovenia Jul 10 '25

Thank you for your kind words 🙏 Cockta is king

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u/SamiTheAnxiousBean Bosniak in Serbia Jul 10 '25

Peak drink

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u/BalkanViking007 Croatia Jul 10 '25

Wait till u feel the power of vegeta

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u/barugosamaa PT HR Jul 11 '25

Home is not a home without vegeta

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u/AssumptionEmpty Slovenia Jul 10 '25

I confirm.

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u/PeroCigla Jul 10 '25

One does not speak you will of Cedevita?

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u/MiskoSkace Slovenia Jul 10 '25

Autocorrect

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u/PeroCigla Jul 10 '25

I know, I'm bored.

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u/Streptomicin Serbia Jul 10 '25

Best thing after bottled water.

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u/TomazZaman Jul 10 '25

This is the way.

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u/tomi_tomi Jul 10 '25

You'll... what