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Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even Johnny Harris)
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Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even Johnny Harris)
Season 10 Episode 16 | 9m 36s | CC
Mexican Coke tastes different than American Coke; after all, it’s sweetened using cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup. That, at least, was the conventional wisdom until 2011, when a paper published in the journal Obesity found that Mexican Coke contained no cane sugar. Instead, the authors found plenty of glucose and fructose, which are the main ingredients in high-fructose corn syrup.
