Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even @johnnyharris)

Why HN readers recommended 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.

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Video & recommendation details

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Topic

sugar chemistry in soda

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2025–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• I recently watched an interesting video on the subject of corn syrup. Which led me into the fascinating rabbit hole of sugar chemistry. [VIDEO] If I might summarize. Your body can absorb three types of sugar into the blood, glucose, fructose and galactose. glucose is …

• The fructose difference is marginal between normal and Mexican coke. In the acidic medium of a cola, sucrose breaks down to glucose and fructose, just as it does with HFCS. HFCS has a bit more fructose, but not enough to make a paper about fructose …

• Sucrose is 50% fructose, 50% glucose. HFCS has from 42-55% fructose (there are grades), the rest being glucose (well some 25% of HFCS is water, but simplifying to the nutritive parts) In the body it's literally all the same with minor variations in ratios. Indeed, …