The usage of the words "different" and "from"

The problem with all of these is that they come off sounding as though one were comparing a recipe with a country:

1. How is the Coca Cola recipe different in the U.S. from the U.K.?
2. How different is the U.S. Coca Cola recipe from the U.K.?
3. How does the U.S. Coca Cola recipe differ from the U.K.?

Example (3) above leads to an immediate understanding of the error, and to its solution.

In comparisons of two things using different or similar and a preposition to or from, keeping the two words involved closer to each other results in a clearer construction than letting them drift farther away from each other does.

4. How does the U.S. Coca Cola recipe differ from the U.K.’s?
5. How is the Coca Cola recipe in the U.S. different from the one in the U.K.?
6. How is the Coca Cola recipe in the U.S. different from that of the U.K.?
7. How is the Coca Cola recipe in the U.S. different from the U.K.’s?
8. How is the U.S. Coca Cola recipe different from the U.K. Coca Cola recipe?
9. How is the U.S. Coca Cola recipe different from the U.K.’s?

If you do split different and from, you need to be careful to remain consistent in your comparisons so that you are always comparing like things, not different things:

10. How different is the U.S. Coca Cola recipe from the one in the U.K.?
11. How different is the U.S. Coca Cola recipe from that of the U.K.?
12. How different is the U.S. Coca Cola recipe from the U.K.’s?

Now you’re still comparing one recipe with another recipe, not trying to compare a recipe with a country. It’s better this way because even though people will probably work out what you had meant, you shouldn’t ask them to. Instead you should state it more clearly in the first place by comparing only like things with each other.