Why do Americans talk about how good Mexican Coke is? Is Mexico’s Coke different to everyone else’s?
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Mexican Coke uses cane sugar, American Coke uses high fructose corn syrup. I at least, can taste the difference.
Mexican Coke uses cane sugar and American Coke uses high fructose corn syrup, which explains the taste difference and why folks say Mexican Coke tastes better.
So, Coca-Cola that is made for and sold in the US uses a sugar called high-fructose corn syrup. its basically like, if you made sugar as concentrated and unhealthy as possible.
Coca-Cola that is made in mexico, meanwhile, largley is sweetened with traditional cane sugar, similar to the sugar you buy at grocery stores, with some differences in how its refined for soda.
cane sugar not only has a better taste to most people than high-fructose corn syrup, but it also is SLIGHTLY healthier because HFCS is like, mega turbo sugar that can be legit dangerous
Every country but the USA uses real sugar and the USA uses high fructose corn syrup. So of course every coke from everywhere is better than US coke. But they only can get Mexican coke.
Mexican Coca-Cola uses real sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup.
It just tastes better.
Fun fact, if you live in an area with a high Jewish population, the Coca Cola company sells special Passover Coke, made with cane sugar. You can find it around now with yellow caps as opposed to the standard white ones.
I think it has to do more with the fact it comes in a glass bottle, instead of plastic or aluminum. I did a taste with some friends and we all agreed that if we were drinking out of a glass bottle, the flavor of American coke was of higher quality. Whereas when we put the Mexican coke in a plastic or aluminum can, it diluted the flavor.
If you want to compare, find a coke bottle with a yellow cap this time of year, it’s kosher for Passover so uses real sugar.
Mexican Coke is also packaged in glass bottles while US Coke comes in plastic bottles. Some say this also makes a difference.
During the 1980s, in order to compete with Pepsi as well as cut production costs, the then president of Coke, replaced cane sugar with HFCS, as corn received a bunch of subsidies by the US government, which made HFCS a super cheap alternative.
Those subsidies aren’t available in Mexico, and despite corn being abundant in MX, it’s still cheap to use sugar in Mexico, so that’s why Coke’s HQ in Mexico still uses cane sugar.
As well as why people in the US will state that Mexican Coke tastes better because it’s mostly the original recipe.
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