It makes me wonder if Coke is desperately inventing some kind of chemical stabilizer that’ll usher in a whole new health problem.
Comment on Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even Johnny Harris)
simplejack@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
TLDR; Mexican Coke is sweetened with sugarcane, but the acid in the soda splits sucrose into glucose and fructose. So you basically end up with a drink that has similar chemical sweeteners to high fructose corn syrup.
Also, Mexican coke probably tastes better because it as a shit of glucose and fructose, not because you’re tasting sucrose.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I bet the glass bottles also has a subjective effect.
simplejack@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah, I bet that the glass works for some folks. My friends and I played with some blind tastes test, and some people couldn’t tell the difference, and other could tell 100% of the time with ease.
My guess is that the taste difference is due to the fact that Mexican Coke has so much glucose that it easily throws a OTC glucose monitor into an overload error state.
Stern@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Diabetes is one of the top killers in Mexico, so that does track.