Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke

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9:55 min.

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?

Correction: 0:51 Cu2O is copper(I) oxide, not copper(II) oxid

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[JoseBalow]

1. I prefer Jarritos

Made with cane sugar