Mexican Coke Is A Lie

yeggim

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Personally, I'm more concerned with the water quality in store bought sodas.
 

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Excellent guess. But it isn't the pH of the solution that causes it.

Coca Cola makes in invert syrup for Mexican coke (and the original decades ago in the US). This is because invert tastes sweeter than sucrose. It is made simply by heating a sucrose in water solution. This separates into glucose and fructose. Still legally labeled as Sucrose.

Inverted sugar syrup - Wikipedia

I think I will ask Dr. Peat what he thinks of this.

EDIT: I see @tankasnowgod got to this first. But I did ask Dr. P and will report back if he responds. I have a feeling this is one he will respond to. But I also know he went to Mexico for the election and have no idea if his access is as good when he is there.
Dr. Peat said that invert syrup vs cane sugar would be the same metabolically.

He doesn't believe that it could be then labeled as sugar, but I believe there is a fine line. If Coca Cola buys sugar and adds it to water and then heats the water, the ingredients would be water and sugar. Heat isn't an ingredient and is explicitly excepted from ingredient listing (along with its effects), at least in the US. If they bought invert syrup I agree, they couldn't label it as sugar.
 

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