Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke

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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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[JoseBalow]

1. I prefer Jarritos

Made with cane sugar

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2. Thanks. I'd never heard of that brand before.

Presumably the sucrose in that turns into glucose & fructose like it does in Coke.