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What happens in your body when you drink a Coke

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"In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system... You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down."

I call BS. I know sugar is hard on your body -- but drinking 12oz of water with 10 tsp. of sugar in it doesn't make me or anyone I know want to vomit, so I don't see why Coke without phosphoric acid would.

You're right to be suspicious. Juices like orange juice and apple juice hit the same 40g of sugar per 12 fl oz mark that Coca-Cola hits. It calls into question the entire post. It should be noted that the subtitle of the blog is "News, Video Games, Movies, Technology and Humor". This might be a humor post.

Coca-Cola isn't good for you. It's high in sugar, has minimal nutritional value, and its acids are terrible for your teeth. However, the amount of sugar in it is not out of the ordinary (when compared to 100% juice products). In fact, grape juice has nearly 50% more sugar.

Natural sugars from fruit are very different from High Fructose Corn Syrup (not Sugar, unless you're outside of North America), so I don't think you're comparing the right things here.

Actually, high fructose corn syrup is a combination of fructose and glucose - the same sugars in most fruits.

For example, grapes are 52% fructose, 46% glucose, and 1% sucrose. Pears are 63% fructose, 29% glucose, and 8% sucrose. High fructose corn syrup used in sodas is usually 55% fructose and 42% glucose.

The "natural" sugar you're thinking of is sucrose. Sucrose is not the dominant sugar found in fruit. Fructose and glucose are the predominant sugars found in fruits and in high fructose corn syrup.

This is backed up with no citations and it is from 2006. Also of note, it is written by a software engineer and not a doctor. Not worth much in my book.

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