The Sweet Lie: Is Cane Sugar Really Better Than High Fructose Corn Syrup?

"Mexican Coke" may taste better, but does it "make American healthy again"?

Every so often, someone hands me a glass bottle of Mexican Coke like it’s a sacred relic.

“It’s the real stuff,” they say, reverently. “Made with cane sugar.”

And sure, on the tongue, it hits different. It’s smoother. Cleaner. Less like molasses, more like memory. If you’re of a certain age, it might remind you of the Coke you drank before 1985, when Amer…