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Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even @johnnyharris)

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What it is

ACS Reactions investigates why Mexican Coke, supposedly cane sugar sweetened, tested as having glucose and fructose, explaining that sucrose breaks down in acidic soda.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Linked in corn syrup and Coca-Cola threads to show that sugar type barely matters in soda because sucrose inverts into the same sugars.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2025, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “I recently watched an interesting video on the subject of corn syrup.”

    Explains sucrose breaking into glucose and fructose in acidic soda.

    somat, 2025-01 · Recommendation · in “How corn syrup took over America”

  2. “Good related video-”

    Related video on Mexican Coke and sucrose breakdown.

    llm_nerd, 2025-01 · Recommendation · in “How corn syrup took over America”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: mexican coke, hfcs, sucrose inversion, chemistry, food science

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