In 2023, researchers from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, published a study in the journal Food Additives & Contaminants reviewing 39 different brands of straws made from five materials ...
and say they make the sodas taste worse. Some even report having to use two to three times as many straws as they did before. So, not really very “sustainable” after all. Even if the flimsier ...
He noted the effect that McDonald's straws have to make beverages such as Sprite and the Diet Coke taste better, which the chain even admits on its website that is "slightly wider than a typical ...
These straws start bending, they start cracking and becoming unusable." Haracz also points out the new straws make McDonald's fountain drinks taste different. "There's a variety of reasons why you ...