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Mexican coke tastes better because it uses slightly less sweetener and twice the amount of sodium. There’s a YouTube video by chemist George Zaidan that did a chemistry deep dive on the topic. The acidity of coke breaks down the cane sugar (sucrose) into fructose and glucose (which is the composition of HFCS). There is no difference in flavor between cane sugar and HFCS in acidic beverages, but there are often other differences in the recipes that improve taste. Most notably sodium content.
In coke, which is acidic, sucrose breaks down into glucose and fructose anyway in the bottle before you drink it.
You can easily solve this by not drinking it.
I’ve been playing that game for 20 years now!
…I’ll still have a nice mixy occasionally, though.
I remember watching a video about this. But I definitely prefer the taste of Mexican coke. Then it hit me, I think it might taste different depending on what material the packaging is. I have this same issue with coffee. I can taste if it was sitting in a plastic mug vs a ceramic one. So, theoretically, I think people might just like the taste of coke from a glass bottle.
It’s not literally in the taste though, pour it in the other packaging if you want to confirm. If you try and think im wrong do a blind test first. I don’t drink a lot of coke, but this definitely holds true for coffee.
Check the sodium level. Mexican coke has a lot more.
<fry squinting meme> Not sure if excess sodium or sugar is worse here…
Depends on the state of your heart.
Cane sugar has equal amounts of glucose and fructose though. High fructose corn syrup has more fructose than glucose which alters the taste.
It’s really close though. 45/55 for the type of hfcs used in soft drinks vs 50/50 for sugar. Not sure that’s enough to throw off taste. Maybe marginally less sweet since fructose is sweeter.
I can taste the difference. I like the HFCS better.
This us the first time I come across this; are the ratios different or something? Why do people prefer the taste of the sugar cane version (unless it’s physiological)?
The Illuminati have already won, my friends. You’re just watching a planned out future become history in real time. ;;)
For the title alone I upvote.
“Replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar doesn’t make sense,” said Corn Refiners Association President and CEO John Bode. "Replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar would cost thousands of American food manufacturing jobs, depress farm income, and boost imports of foreign sugar, all with no nutritional benefit.”
Corn farmers heavily voted for Trump, but according to them they’re weak and stupid anyway, so now we just wait for the cost of Coke to jump due to importing sugar. ‘Course, he never said anything about Pepsi, so people just flock to the much cheaper Pepsi products and Coke goes under! Brilliant!
Well, it’ll probably be a “new” version of coke with cane sugar instead of HFCS. New is in quotes because they already sell that product. They’ll take the existing product, call it Trump Coke, or something, and sell it for four times the price.
Still in plastic bottles.
Jump? Have you bought soda recently in the store? I haven’t in years until my wife wanted some… Over 3 bucks for a 2 liter, and a 12 pack is over 10 bucks…
Last time I looked it was about 2 bucks for a 2 liter… And that upset me because I remember when that shit was less than a dollar and I’m not even that old…
Anyway
Yup, I remember when 20oz bottles were $.69 and they gave out free ones with a cap. I mean, there was gambling involved in the advertising, but shit, even back then, that price was nothing. These days, even with my well paying job, a coke is 15 minutes worth of work.
I just get the supermarkets own brand of it. I’m mixing it with enough rum that you can’t tell the difference.
Pepsi already has a cane sugar variant they sell at the same price.
“Corn is life. Without corn in everything you consume, you will be sad and everyone will hate you. Drink delicious corn syrup for every meal.”
-President of the lobbying group the Corn Refiner’s Association
Now I’m not saying that the em dash means it’s LLM or at least not him, but I am saying I doubt he knows about it. The spacing is wrong, though, so maybe it is his work.
LLMs are a form of artificial intelligence, Trump lacks intelligence so it can’t be
You see surely the fact that Donald Trump is able to move around and find food seems to suggest that AI could be conscious. Since the bar seems to be quite low.
would you arrange that bacteria are conscious?
Does this mean also production plants outside of USA?
@ijhoo@lemmy.ml yeah, so now Coca Cola will not only pillage so much mexican water (it’s an actual terrible problem) they’ll also be doing it with cane sugar now. Perfect 😒
We have lots of both sugar and potable water here in Brazil… Maybe the US could send the wanted Brazilian criminals they are protecting in Florida to come get it.
Jfc
Don’t get distraced by this from the Epstein files
Also Trump: I’m putting a 50% tariff on imports from the country that makes the majority of the world’s cane sugar (Brazil) because I’m angry that they’re punishing their fascist that attempted a coup.
“Hell yeah! Make them pay for the border wall” -Conservatives… while also paying the 50% increase in Coke prices
This is the math. They assume that Coca Cola won’t raise prices, will import more sugar, raise tariff revenue, and they can have their cake and eat it, too.
Meanwhile, in reality, Coca Cola US already sells a kosher version with cane sugar for Passover every year. So they just keep doing that, bring 20 cases to the White House for a photo op, and maybe do a larger limited run with ads on Fox News for literally 1 day.
Once again, being an idiot has allowed T to negotiate a hard position and force someone to do something they already do.
Corn isn’t kosher?
I think it’s the highly processed part that isn’t? Im not entirely sure.
Coca Cola US already makes a real sugar version that’s kosher for Passover.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Coca-Cola-Soda-Soft-Drink-Kosher-2-Liters/303954989
Sooooo, what’s new here?
What’s new is copying the Mexican president. He heard “cane sugar” in a chocolate bar announcement. Then talked to Coke about something they’re already doing.
Yeah, well just wait until he hears that cane farms are full of brown people. We’ll be back to HFCS in a week.
It’s not widely stocked except around Passover, IIRC because it’s more expensive. Because corn subsidies.
I don’t like Coke, and I stopped drinking colas altogether years ago, so I’m not exactly current on shelve stocking. But that’s my recollection.
I also don’t drink soda, but I seemed to recall that a few years back Coca Cola did a limited release of the cane sugar version when they finally caught on to how popular Mexican Coca Cola was in the US.
But when looking for that, I found the regular annual stock of the same thing.
My guess would be another limited release, and when the average consumer balks at even the tiniest price difference, they knock this down to a trickle of a steady supply only to fit purely political/ideological demands. Keep a single bottling plant in Texas running cane supply 2 days a week, that kind of thing.
Yeah. Back when sugar-Coke was a thing (it was going around in popular media about “better” Coke being available around Passover) we searched around and found some and tried it. I couldn’t tell a difference, but that’s probably because I don’t like Coke to begin with and hadn’t tasted the corn-syrup version in decades so had nothing to compare it with. It was putting lipstick on a pig.
You’re right that Coke-Cola’s just going to fine ways to cut corners. My guess is that they’d start with sugar, but slowly start adding corn syrup back in in increasing amounts until it’s back to mostly corn syrup and some token sugar.
I haven’t ever done a side by side comparison, but the European and most African versions seem less shockingly sweet to me. Like there’s just an extra super-sweet edge to the American one, and more carbonation. But maybe I’m just imagining that.
That’s the corn syrup. There’s a definite difference; corn syrup is more cloying. Side by side, it’s easy to tell the difference. My comment was just that not even sugar could make Coke more palatable.
Lol, fair point
It’s not limited. Coke in the USA sells a knock off version of Mexican coke. Same style of bottle, similar labeling, but the bottle won’t be all fucked from recycling.
If your “Mexican” coke bottle isn’t beat to shit and you’re in the USA, odds are you’re drinking the American version.
Oooooooh! A deception!
I think its saying something when this is easily the best thing hes actually done as president.
Broken clock moment.
Chocolate bar in Mexico released with cane sugar a few days ago. Sigh…
