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Flutiebear: Rambling My Way Through Thedas I am become Flutie, Destroyer of Salads. Search Posts what does coca taste like?

runawaydragons replied to your post: Flutie y La Aventura del Peru: Respect the coca

I have always wondered what it tastes like. I loved studying Peru, and long before I ever heard of cocaine, I learned about coca. The upside about being homeschooled!

At first, it tastes like… leaf. Like, if you’d picked a maple leaf off the stem and stuck it in your mouth.

When you start to chew it, coca leaf can be extremely bitter, unless you sprinkle a bit of sugar or stevia on it to kickstart the alkaloid catalysis. When chewing the leaf, I found it impossible to taste anything besides the bitter, but that may just be me.

Coca candy is usually mixed with something sweet – honey, toffee, etc – so that usually overwhelms the coca flavor, at least at first. Coca tea is, as Zuko would say, hot leaf juice; you have to steep it for a very long time to taste the coca.

Still, I was able to pick out more of the coca taste with candies and tea – and, funny enough, coca tastes like Coca-Cola, just without any sweetness or fizz. (Makes sense, since Coke is made with coca extract.) The closest you can get to the taste is really, really flat Coke (though that will still have the syrupy super-sweetness).