Sugar vs. High Fructose Corn Syrup: Triangle Taste Test

[lapuertabad]

Can't believe you can not taste the difference from Coke with corn syrup and Coke with real sugar! By the way you look like a MoRon with that blindfold with eyelashes!

[Widgett]

@lapuertabad: Well, we can't all be experts on fashionable blindfolds like yourself.

[justice4all72]

Greatest blindfold ever!

[DietSolutionReviews1]

HFCS is being linked to so many risks and complication you know the food industry will do what ever it can to make it look healthy.Shame on them

[irisshpunk]

Gotta love science. I'd like to note that you could tell the difference between Throwback Pepsi and Regular Pepsi, so your conclusion assumes that the two recipes are identical aside from the type of sugar used. Other than that, good science!!!

[NeedCoffeeDotCom]

@irisshpunk: Thanks for the comment. Yeah, it's not a perfect experiment--I just primarily wanted to check to see if the whole "it tastes better" thing made any sense. Hard to do good science wearing pink, I must say. :-)

[Fireball821]

Awesome test! I agree about what you said about the companies switching to sugar to make more money.

[AshtonPhoto]

Eeewwww.

Tell me that's not so!!!!

(Yes, pink = comedy, except in Legally Blond 2, where it = boredom)

[AshtonPhoto]

Thanks for the video.

"Ok I'm taking mental notes here. You can't hear me doing it because, it's mental."

I love it!

Er, just one question. If you don't know which glass has which drink, why would you need the blindfold?

Also, if you knew how they make HFCS you'd never consume the stuff again.

[Widgett]

@AshtonPhoto: Because I didn't want any visual cues to inform anything. Also, me wearing pink = comedy.

And as to how they make HFCS? I already know they grind up baby seals. I saw it on the Discovery Channel.

[irisshpunk]

@AshtonPhoto You know they make Splenda by chlorinating sugar in the presence of Toluene and Wood Alcohol. Some air fresheners have known carcinogens. Your average gaming console emits microwaves even when turned off, and so does your wireless router. Bluetooth devices meant to accompany your cell phone have little to no security; someone could be listening to your calls and you wouldn't even know it. It's amazing how knowledge ruins your daily conveniences.

[AshtonPhoto]

@irisshpunk

You're absolutely right! Touché.

That's why I don't eat Splenda, use air 'fresheners' or waste my life on video games.

The wireless router? You got me on that one. As soon as we move house we're going all wired. At the mo' my computer can see at least 5 wifi signals from neighbors' systems. Turning mine off would be an exercise in futility.

Also, I don't drink/eat anything with HFCS in it, including Pepsi.

I always use my iPhone headphones for phone calls too.

d(^_^)b

[irisshpunk]

@AshtonPhoto Impressive. I have to say though, I was with you right up until the iPhone thing. If you believe that the microwaves emitted by cell phones give you cancer, and you keep your phone on your hip, isn't that just choosing between brain cancer and testicular/ovarian cancer?

[AshtonPhoto]

@irisshpunk

Ha ha. Touché again.

Truthfully, I don't know if microwaves emitted by cell phones give you cancer, but I'd rather be on the safe side.

When I'm driving I put my phone on the passenger seat so it's not touching me.

I also never buy imported fruit (it gets sprayed like crazy to stop foreign bugs getting into the country) and our family is starting our own veggie garden.

Man, I'm sounding like granola-man here!

[xavier1857]

What did you like better

[khh1964]

Holy crap!! I just realized who you are!! WOLFMAN JACK dude you have come back, get that raspy voice out!!! P.S> good vid

[Widgett]

@khh1964: I am slightly less hairy than Wolfman Jack was. Slightly. But thanks for being original and not saying Kevin Smith. :-)

[Widgett]

@welovemrp00: That's true...if we ever do another, we'll get a third party to mix stuff up for us.

[welovemrp00]

It would have been a more proper blinded test if the person giving you the drinks didn't know which was which as well.

[Widgett]

@SuperJoeAnonymous: SJA: Thanks for the study link...I'll let you know what I find once I've read it, the criticisms, the criticisms of the criticisms, and so forth. :-)

[Widgett]

@SuperJoeAnonymous: Thanks SJA for the comment. The problem I have is that I haven't seen the study yet that I could trust that would tell me one way or the other. So I'm a HFCS/Sugar agnostic, I guess.

[RIOT690]

I hate syrup version.

Last time I visited Germany, its sugar based coke was amazing. Syrup based leaves a nasty gunk wrap feeling around your mouth, while sugar is sweeter, the bubbles are smaller, and its flavor is more obvious. One more thing about sugar, it doesn't leave that gunk coating around your teeth, it feels more like refreshing spring water with bubbles, and the coke ingredients without syrup.

[hermankatnip]

I cant believe the US doesnt have the best Coke/Pepsi. In the UK they are both made with good old sugar. High fructose corn syrup is nasty and should be avoided.

[Widgett]

vivid: I thought I preferred Coke with sugar until I did this test. I urge you to try them side by side like this and share your results. Thanks for commenting.

[vivid1234]

coke in the states tastes like shit. the one in europe consists sugar and it tastes a LOT better.

[Widgett]

sugarkang: Yeah, I couldn't tell the difference taste-wise, but I urge everybody to do their own taste test. No sense going berserk over passover Coke if we don't have to. Thanks to everybody for the comments.

[sugarkang]

thanks for doing this. now i don't have to go nuts thinking about acquiring passover coke.

[ThinkingSkull]

Still waiting on the "Mocha Loca" Monster Coffee Energy Drink review. "Nut Up" isn't bad either but the name makes me suspicious of sinister goings ons.

[PoppedLASTICZ]

Very interesting.

It's always been my understanding that High Fructose Corn Syrup contains more half binding chemicals that the store more fat makers because the body cannot possible keep up since fructose is a natural byproduct of sugar.

Sugar is better because the body is able to process it more naturally.

Of course, I'm not scientist, so I could be wrong. This is merely my understanding of the difference on a basic level