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> Coke is just addictive sugar water It would be somewhat healthier if it actually contained sugar (as opposed to high fructose corn syrup).

• mbaird 14y ago
  In the UK it still uses sugar, and imho tastes a whole lot better than the HFCS version.
  • yareally 14y ago
    Most countries still do, except the US, where we have corn subsidies and sugar tariffs to artificially lower the price of corn and artificially raise the price of sugar (to protect a few growers in the south US). The other year when sugar prices were near equal to corn, Pepsi and Dr. Pepper distributed soda with sugar only throughout much of the United States. I haven't followed the prices of sugar since, but I would gather the price went back up either naturally or through congressional means.
    • maxerickson 14y ago
      The commodity price of sugar is ~1.5 cents per can of soda, so I think they could get away with it whenever they wanted (meaning that they would have canceled the products because they weren't making enough volume on them). Now I looked it up, Pepsi markets "throwback" brands which use sugar.
• chiaro 14y ago
  I doubt that. Sugar and HFCS are essentially the same thing, produced in different ways. Sugar (sucrose) is a 50/50 split between glucose and fructose. HFCS has more fructose in it, generally around 65/35. There's a danger from using too much HFCS in the replacement, but really, saying sugar is healthier than HFCS is akin to saying that it's better to be punched kickboxer than a boxer.