Coca-Cola confirms it will start offering Coke sweetened with cane sugar in the U.S. this fall, along with the current recipe that uses high-fructose corn syrup. The announcement came after President ...

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Just glance at grocery store aisles and the prominent role of sweeteners becomes evident. From the many kinds of bulk sugars for sale, to the world of diet sodas, and the unsuspecting sweeteners ...

High-fructose corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn. When corn starch is broken down into individual molecules, it becomes corn syrup, which is 100 percent glucose, a simple sugar. Special ...

Coca-Cola will release a cane sugar-sweetened Coke this fall. The new product will not replace high-fructose corn syrup in the original Coke formula. Health experts say both cane sugar and ...

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