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(16,672 posts) Tue Jul 22, 2025, 01:54 PM Jul 22

Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke [View all]

This seemed like a good time to repost this. Basically, there's no differences in the sugar present in the Coke some weeks after the soda is bottled, regardless of whether it was made with cane sugar or HFCS (any sucrose used becomes free fructose and glucose). There are some other differences in the ingredients (e.g., salt or sodium) other than the sugar used that might account for some taste differences.

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4285619/

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Ventura et al.4 found no inconsistencies in HFCS-sweetened beverages, but did report discrepancies between types of sugars claimed on product labels and those detected in sucrose-sweetened beverages. However, their sucrose concern was almost certainly a failure to consider acid-catalyzed sucrose inversion to free fructose and glucose, a well-characterized phenomenon known to occur in the low-pH environment of most carbonated beverages (and a host of other acidic foods and beverages). Thus, concern about types of sugars in HFCS- and sucrose-sweetened beverages appears to be based on incomplete understanding of sugars chemistry in carbonated beverages.

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Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke ( Even ‪@johnnyharris )

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Dec 11 2024

A 2011 paper found that Mexican Coke – which is supposed to be sweetened with cane sugar – contained no cane sugar. Instead, the paper found plenty of glucose and fructose: the main ingredients in high fructose corn syrup. Could Coke be lying to us all? Or is there another, even stranger explanation?

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Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke [View all] sl8 Jul 22 OP

I tried the Mexican Coke recently. The only difference is PRICE 4139 Jul 22 #1

kind of amused at the groundswell of amateur chemists stopdiggin Jul 22 #2

Whether we know it or not, chemicals play an important and ever-increasing role in our daily lives... JoseBalow Jul 22 #6

Coke also has Dihydrogen Oxide in it Johnny2X2X Jul 22 #9

A Star Trek:TNG episode featured a "baryon sweep." Igel Jul 22 #10

I buy Mexican Coke because it tates better. I think it's the glass bottle Autumn Jul 22 #3

needs to be watched to the end cadoman Jul 22 #4

Perhaps for flavor. Igel Jul 22 #12

No powdered sugar in Coke? usonian Jul 22 #5

Was the story paid for by corn farmers? WarGamer Jul 22 #7

Cost. KentuckyWoman Jul 22 #8

No one is arguing that either form of Coke is good for you cyclonefence Jul 22 #11

The term "Mexican Coke" must make Jr.'s heart go pitter-patter! Totally Tunsie Jul 22 #13

I like the real sugar coke better myself. Bluesaph Jul 22 #14

We are gonna run out of corn Bluesaph Jul 22 #15

I used to work in a restaurant with a bunch of Mexican coworkers Polybius Jul 23 #16

Im a Pepsi man DiverDave Jul 23 #17