Sugar vs. High Fructose Corn Syrup: Triangle Taste Test

Widgett Walls from Needcoffee.com (http://www.needcoffee.com) here again. In the name of SCIENCE! I put on a blindfold and see if I can taste the difference between Pepsi and Pepsi Throwback and also Coke and "Mexican" Coke. In other words, is there any taste difference that I can ascertain between sugar and high fructose corn syrup. The answer revealed! Try this in your own home! It's SCIENCE!

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• throwback
• soft
• drinks
• soda
• cola

[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.

[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.

[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. :-)

[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

[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!

[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

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

[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. :-)

[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.

[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!!!