Mexican soda still use real sugar cane.
US soda use that high-fructose corn syrup to sweeten stuff.
You can buy Mexican coke made with sugar cane in certain spots on the west coast.
Answer (1 of 14): Because in the U.S. the farm subsidies and the lobbying from the corn farmers make it so that corn and corn products are nearly ubiquitous. > In the US, HFCS is among the sweeteners that have partially replaced sucrose (table sugar), due to governmental subsidies of U.S. corn ...
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