The Mexican Coca-Cola with real cane sugar is also much better than the corn syrup version. Jolt used to use sugar, but even they went to HFCS, forcing them to drop the slogan "All the sugar, twice the caffeine. I WANTED to like Jolt, but it just didn't taste very good.
Without getting into a need for litigation, I wouldn't be surprised if that High Fructose Corn Syrup is a problem. However, my wife and I do our own "litigating" by not buying those products. We don't need a lawyer to do it for us.
Absolutely. And you can thank the U.S. Gov't for that.
It's readily available at the grocery stores here, and I buy it sometimes. I have noticed when I drink the soft drinks with corn syrup, the muscles in my legs hurt...the ones with sugar don't do that.
I'm sure someone more educated than me would say that there is no scientific basis for corn syrup causing leg pain, but if I drink two soft drinks with corn syrup in them in one day, my legs kill me, especially when I'm getting up from sitting.
When I drink the sugar ones-no pain.
Actually, it is: I read something on FR a couple of months ago saying that HRCS works differently in the body from sugar -- more likely to turn to fat on the same number of calories. I believe the turn to HFCS, though, came about as a result of US protectionist policies against foreign sugar, keeping the price of sugar high enough to make HFCS attractive to manufacturers.
The Mexican Coca-Cola with real cane sugar is also much better than the corn syrup version.