Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even Johnny Harris)

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• simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I bet the glass bottles also has a subjective effect.

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    • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve definitely experienced this. Not so much with coke, which I don’t care much for either way, but lemonade. Lemonade out of a glass bottle is top tier, followed by the post-mix syrup served at bars. Out of a can though is just not as nice. I don’t care if there’s no rational reason for that to be the case (the post-mix at least might be a different recipe, but Sprite in a glass is surely the same as Sprite in a can).

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  • thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It makes me wonder if Coke is desperately inventing some kind of chemical stabilizer that’ll usher in a whole new health problem.

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    • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s just basic, easily reproducible, chemistry. Not some sort of conspiracy.

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• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Even Johnny Harris” is not adding anything. Do people think Johnny Harris is an authority on truth or something?

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Who?

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    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Youtuber in constant pursuit of Voice of America money.

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  • ghen@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He finally made a good video with his Saudi one recently. He might actually be making good on his promise after his NATO hit piece feel flat

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s adding clicks to the video, because he’s well-known.

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  what exactly is everyone wrong about

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well they’re not wrong about clickbait…

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  • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    lemmy.world/comment/14097396

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