For decades, people have been drawn to Mexican Coca-Cola because it is made with cane sugar, while US Coke is made with high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Those who know swear that Mexican Coke tastes better. The difference benefitted the Coca-Cola company because some people would go out of their way to pay a premium price for Mexican Coke, while most Americans drank whatever was available, and it was made with cheaper corn syrup. But a 2011 paper claimed that there is no difference in the sugar content between the two Cokes. Has the company been lying to us? George Zaidan of Reactions decided to do his own sugar content tests to find out. His confounding results required more research.
Sucrose, glucose, and fructose are all sugars, but they are chemically different. Sucrose, or table sugar, is made from sugar cane. Many of our processed foods are made with HFCS, which is a mixture of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose. And since HFCS is made from subsidized corn, it is much cheaper than cane sugar. But as we will find out in this video, cane sugar, or sucrose, has its own secrets that make everything clear in the end. (via Damn Interesting)
Friday, December 13, 2024
US and Mexican Coca-Cola: Are They Different?
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Having lived in Mexico for the past couple of years, I can attest that Mexican Coke is better. Maybe it's the glass bottles.
Canadian Coke is made with maple syrup
If it was made with Maple Syrup it would cost 4 times as much. LoL
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That is really interesting. When sucrose is exposed to acid, it breaks down and becomes fructose. In other words, as long as your sugar sits in a bowl on your counter it's sucrose. For quite a while now I've been making my own soda on demand with seltzer (still $1 a quart) and several teaspoons of table sugar. (Be sure to put the sugar in the glass first!) Turns out I was smart by doing that and didn't know it. Too much fructose gives you diabetes, the pancreas works about 5 times harder to digest fructose than sucrose. As for telling the difference in taste, it has nothing to do with sweetness. HFCS makes food taste blah and uninteresting. That's how I first noticed it was suddenly being used to cheapen the quality of processed foods.
At 1.34 ... how can he stand to wear a round neck tee shirt ? To me it would be like being strangled, like back when I was a slave helping build the pyramids in Egypt and I tripped off a ledge and got my head stuck in a rope and died .. talk about laugh ... yeah, nah, I hate round neck tee shirts, vee is the only way to go.
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