Coca-Cola’s move comes a week after the White House issued a statement by President Trump saying he had been talking to the soft drink giant about using cane sugar rather than high-fructose corn syrup in its signature drink.
Corn Refiners Association President and CEO John Bode predicts that an increase in using U.S. cane sugar will lead to a rise in foreign cane sugar imports.
Bode said in a statement to NPR, “Replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar would cost thousands of American food manufacturing jobs, depress farm income, and expand the trade deficit.”
For some icing on the cake, the sucrose of cane sugar very quickly breaks down in coke into glucose and fructose, in more or less same proportions as in HFCS, so it kind of doesn’t change anything but the price, and which growers are happy.
I swear the cane sugar Dr. Pepper tastes different from the HFCS kind. Maybe it really is possible to differentiate 50-50 glucose-fructose from 45-55 glucose-fructose? Or maybe the corn syrup carries other flavor molecules?
Or maybe there are other differences in the recipe.
Pepsi’s Throwback stuff definitely has a different texture to it compared to regular, at the least. Less syrupy, more crisp. Henry Weinhard’s sodas also use cane sugar and are similarly crisp, but they market themselves as a high quality brand anyway.
Trump is a piece of shit regardless but cane sugar soda tastes undeniably better
Hard disagree. I prefer HFCS Coke. It’s a personal preference.
You’re certainly the first person I’ve heard that from
But seriously, how often does it come up? And how many people can’t tell the difference but just “know” that Mexican Coke is supposed to be better?
I mean, I’ve had this discussion a few times. You could be right that people know what is “supposed to be” true, but as for myself I taste the difference and the corn sugar tastes more boring, saccarine, and sticky in consistency. Cane sugar has slightly more depth and an “earthiness” to it. It’s not the biggest difference ever, but I will drop an extra dollar on mexican coke as a treat and I find it well worth the difference. Then again I don’t drink a ton of soda and maybe that has something to do with it?
I disagree about the saccharine-ness of the flavor. I think it’s the opposite. To me the corn syrup is more acidic and on the front of the tongue. The cane sugar is lighter, more on the back of the tongue, not nearly as far back as fake sugar, but heading in that direction. To me it’s like someone added a sprinkle of stevia. Not enough for me to hate it, but enough that I can tell.
I’d put it a step closer to Pepsi. It’s the kind of sweetness that wins all the “blind taste tests”, but I still don’t prefer it.
I grew up drinking way too much Coca-Cola, but nowadays I restrict myself and only have one with dinner sometimes. If they switch out the HFCS for cane sugar, I’ll switch to Dr. Pepper & Cream Soda exclusively, which is the only other soda I like.
Huh, well that’s interesting. Different strokes and all. I grew up in a house where soda was limited and usually caffeine free and diet (which I hated!) but maybe subconsciously I got used to some aspect of that sweetener!
I like how someone downvoted your for this opinion.