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> Same for American coke w/ Cane Sugar instead of actual sugar.

I think you meant high fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar (which is real sugar)



Exactly. To remind us - it's the fructose which is a metabolic problem in amounts over a certain value - worth checking out why. Cane sugar and beet sugar both contain sucrose which is one glucose linked to one fructose molecule so you get half the fructose.


You don’t get half because nobody’s sweetening things with 100% fructose. The most common HFCS compositions are 42% and 55% fructose.


Woops, my bad, you are right!




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