Cane Sugar in Mexican Coke Is A Lie?

On Facebook, Mexican Coca-Cola has 31,362 fans. Why? Because according to the ever reliable Wikipedia, "Mexican Coke is sweetened with refined cane sugar rather than the high-fructose corn syrup." But according to a new study from the journal Obesity, investigators found no evidence of sucrose in Mexican Coke, just lots of fructose and glucose. Translation: high-fructose corn syrup has most likely made its way below the border. Looks like we'll just have to wait for kosher Coke to come back to get our fix.

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By Jaya Saxena in Food on November 3, 2010 3:40 PM

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What a bummer! I really thought that there was real sugar in there. BTW, I work for a company called www.bitehunter.com. We are the web's first real time dining search engine, and have all dining info from thousands of restaurants' tweets, blogs, websites, as well as all dining deals from daily deal websites. Check us out!

HairyG

I bought a bottle at Stew Leonards, it was on display as coke from mexico made with real sugar. The label says sugar, but it is a post manufacturing label stuck on to make it legal to sell in the US. The bottle itself does not list any ingredients or nutritional info.

Potty Boy

I've bought Mexican Coke. The labels say made with "sugar and/or HFCS".

Potty Boy

Oh wait, natis already said that. Reading FAIL.

natis

Reading the bottle is important. I've seen Mexican Coke bottles that do list HFCS as an ingredient and if it does have that listed, I won't purchase it. You should always read labels to see if the manufacturer has changed things.

Cannibal

Hahaha 31,362 fucking morons.

jaycjay

Well, some might like it because it comes in a cooler bottle, so this "news" might not matter to them.

jaycjay

The cited source in that Wikipedia article? Some guy's blog.

Apparently the only basis for the belief is that the ingredient list says "sugar" instead of "corn syrup". "Sugar", of course, is a general term and could mean cane sugar, sucrose, caramel, corn syrup, whatever.

If it was actually cane sugar, that's probably what would be listed.

Politburo

No, sugar is a specific term defined by the FDA to mean sugar from cane or beets only.

21 CFR 101.4(b)(20)

Cannibal

Maybe in the USA. But then again, if you didn't make it yourself, who knows what the hell you are eating/drinking, even in the USA.

Never trust corporations to feed you.

jaycjay

My point is that the use of cane sugar would be preferred by most consumers (those who care or pay attention to that sort of thing, anyway, by what are the chances that somoene would prefer corn syrup as a sweetener?). So the fact that they don't directly state that they use the preferred ingredient implies that they don't.