• Apepollo11@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I was baffled by the huge “Real Sugar” text at first - assuming it meant instead of diet. Like, surely the assumption would be be that unless it says “diet” then of course it contains sugar - it’s weird to make it such a prominent part of the branding.

    I then realised that the US uses corn syrup in loads of stuff, and it probably means instead of that.

    • jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org
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      16 hours ago

      Yes. Most soda in the US is sweetened with High Fructose Corn Syrup.

      It creates a market for imported “Mexican Coke”, which is sweetened with cane sugar. Some smaller brands also advertise themselves as using cane sugar.

      I don’t think I’ve seen a brand with it quite as boldly stated as that, though.