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'It's just better ' Trump says Coca-Cola to change key US ingredient

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Re: 'It's just better ' Trump says Coca-Cola to change key US ingredient

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Post by garbagecoder »

johng wrote: post #10
legitster wrote: post #7

The irony is that a significant proportion of the sugar in "old" Coke in the US was not actually cane sugar, but from sugar beets. But the obsession over types of sugar is largely ephemeral. All sugars are highly processed and refined and equally bad. HFCS's only crime is it's cheapness and ubiquity. Funnily enough, for interesting chemistry reasons, it doesn't matter which type of sugar you put in, it all breaks dow…

I can assure you, it tastes different... or at least Mexican Cokes in glass bottles do. Go find you one and drink it. It's substantially different and better. It's sooooo good.

Or even just get the passover ones in plastic bottles here in the US when they're in season. It tastes different. Whether you care or like it better or worse, it tastes different.

According to the WSJ this is because "Food scientists have noted subtle differences between the sweeteners: High-fructose corn syrup’s sweetness intensity tends to peak earlier, enhancing fruit and spice flavors, while sugar’s profile is broader and lingers."

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Post by discoutdynamite »

Finally. HFCS is a nightmare, I hope this is the beginning of the end. Farmers wind up growing trash GMO monocrops for ethanol subsidies and syrup money, depleting the soil and sterilizing the land. HFCS is a direct cause of diabetes, it has a different breakdown path than other sweeteners, it spikes blood sugar. HFCS is so "sweet" it overstimulates the taste buds and ruins the sense of taste, people get no statisfaction and are trained into gluttony.

Gonna go make a highball to celebrate, with some of the last Mexican Coke I might ever have to buy....

Re: 'It's just better ' Trump says Coca-Cola to change key US ingredient

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Post by legitster »

johng wrote: post #10
legitster wrote: post #7

The irony is that a significant proportion of the sugar in "old" Coke in the US was not actually cane sugar, but from sugar beets. But the obsession over types of sugar is largely ephemeral. All sugars are highly processed and refined and equally bad. HFCS's only crime is it's cheapness and ubiquity. Funnily enough, for interesting chemistry reasons, it doesn't matter which type of sugar you put in, it all breaks dow…

I can assure you, it tastes different... or at least Mexican Cokes in glass bottles do. Go find you one and drink it. It's substantially different and better. It's sooooo good.

As the video covers, there is way more sodium in the Mexican coke, so it's likely the recipe is also different in other ways.

Re: 'It's just better ' Trump says Coca-Cola to change key US ingredient

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Post by stop50 »

discoutdynamite wrote: post #12

Finally. HFCS is a nightmare, I hope this is the beginning of the end. Farmers wind up growing trash GMO monocrops for ethanol subsidies and syrup money, depleting the soil and sterilizing the land. HFCS is a direct cause of diabetes, it has a different breakdown path than other sweeteners, it spikes blood sugar. HFCS is so "sweet" it overstimulates the taste buds and ruins the sense of taste, people get no statisfac…

Cain sugar is not much different. The only way to reduce the amount of sugar would be a sugar tax. Multiple countries implemented it and in all of them the sugar content dropped rapidly. Long term health benefits are not yet seen die the fact that the taxation started only a few years ago.
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