If it came up from Columbia and hasn't been cut with baby laxative.
Posted on 05/22/2026 8:03:15 PM PDT by johnnygeneric
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.
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If it came up from Columbia and hasn't been cut with baby laxative.
Watch the video. They perform a taste test.
stanne, you are fooling yourself. The facts are established. The cane sugar breaks down. Read the article and watch the YT vid. Many can’t tell the difference in taste.
I didn't stop drinking Cokes because of the calories. I've been rail-thin my entire life.
45 grams is almost 1-1/2 ounces of sugar. Multiply it times three for the number of Cokes I was drinking.
I didn't, and still don't need to be shoveling that much sugar down my throat every day.
One level teaspoon is about 16 calories.
True, but I would never put 1-1/2 ounces of sugar in my coffee.
We're talking about pouring an inch of sugar into the bottom of the cup, then topping it off with the coffee.
Freedom4US, you are in DENIAL.
I am telling you that the kids around here ask for Mexican coke. They say it’s better
So. Stop with the FR nastiness
YES. Cuba Libres and Rum and Coke cocktails must use the imported coke. The more scratched up the bottle the better.
I will take a Coke and Lith Up (7 up) chaser circa 1929.
You went captain obvious before I did.
I tried snorting coke once but I didn’t like it. I got an ice cube stuck in my nose.
Three weeks on the shelf?
I liked the the taste of Mexican coke. That’s all I would buy. I rarely have a soft drink anymore. Informative and humorous thread BUMP.
You can have my Mexican Coke when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
It’s that good - noticeably better than domestic coke.
If Trump were to propose invading Mexico to obtain Mexican Coke, I would volunteer to lead the charge.
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It’s not just Coke that has its taste change by HFCS. Modern versions of Pepsi and especially Dr. Pepper do not taste anything like they did back in the 1950s. Some of the difference is the makers tinkering with the formula, but a lot of the difference is the switch to corn syrup sweetener. The same is true for other sweet products that used to be made with sugar and now are a witches brew of manufactured sweeteners and flavors. The morning coffee I’m am enjoying is sweetened slightly with turbinado sugar instead refined white sugar. The taste difference is noticeable. I’m now making my Old Fashioned with pure maple syrup which enhances the taste of my rye whiskey.
But it tastes better. So way to miss the point of Mexican Coke.
Carbonation levels are a key difference in the taste. When Coke started selling the two liter thin plastic bottles they reduced the carbonation significantly. (I still remember the sinus burn I could get as a child if I drank one too quickly.)
I recently got a fountain Coke at a restaurant where they had the gas level higher than normal. It tasted much more like the the old Coke than what you get in the bottles and cans now.
Other changes were made to the formula which they tried to mask with the “New Coke” scam but it would probably need a forensic chemist to sort those out. Certainly sweeter and less acidic.
Yeah ... I’m still on my first cup of the morning out here and it took a minute to realize this is about soda pop.
By the way, folks:
Wal-mart sells canned Pepsi with real sugar for the same price it sells its other canned soft drinks. No upcharge like Coke has for the “Mexican” Cokes. Until fairly recently, they also carried 2 liter Dr Pepper with real sugar (green label), but Dr Pepper seems to have gone back to the sugared version only being sold in glass bottles at an upcharge.
Personally, I like the COKES on Okinawa back in 1968. They had more “zing” than the American cokes.
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