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From: iws@rayssdb.UUCP (Ihor W. Slabicky)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Coke, classic coke and new coke
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Date: Tue, 9-Sep-86 12:17:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  9 12:17:47 1986
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Hello Coca-Cola lovers,

Yes, you are right about the taste of Coke/New Coke/Classic Coke.
Let me paraphrase from a Washington Post article that appeared in
the Hartford Courant of Sept. 7, 1986:  "Coke 'The Real Thing'?
Well, Classic Not Quite".

Classic Coke is not neccesarily "the real thing," two Houston
scientists have found.  Laboratory analyses showed that Classic
Coke's formula is not always the same as that of "old Coke" tested
by the scientists.  The difference is the type of sugar used to
sweeten the beverage.  The laboratory analyses, reported in the
British scientific journal Nature, suggest why.  Old Coke, tested 
in 1983, was 3.3 percent fructose, 2.9 percent glucose, and 4.7
percent sucrose.  Classic Coke was 6.3 percent fructose and 4.6
percent glucose, with no sucrose.  The scientists called this
"transition Coke."  New Coke uses the same two sugars but in
concentrations about 10 percent higher.  The Classic Coke appeared
to be a reversion to the two sugar formula of "transition Coke"
which was on the market only a few months, and not a genuine
revival of the earlier three sugar formula.  Each kind of sugar,
although sweet, is chemically distinct and has its own flavor 
nuances.  A spokesman for Coca-Cola said Coke's formula has
changed through the years and that the choice of sugars, once 
strictly specified by the company, is now largely left to
local bottlers.  The parent company supplies only a syrup
consisting of a "secret formula" mixture of flavoring and
coloring agents.  When first sold, the only allowed sweetener
was cane sugar, which is sucrose.  In 1940, the company gave 
bottlers the option of substituting beet sugar, also sucrose.
In 1980 bottlers were offered a third option.  They could omit 
some sucrose and substitute with "high fructose corn syrup,"
which is a mixture of fructose and glucose.  Finally, in
November 1984, bottlers were allowed to use 100 percent corn
syrup if they wanted.

-well, that's it, folks.  Thanks for the mail!

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