Mexican Coke is sweetened with sugar. American Coke is sweetened with corn syrup. The US can reads carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, caramel color, phosphoric acid, natural flavors and caffeine. The glass bottle imported from Mexico reads carbonated water, cane sugar, caramel color, phosphoric acid, natural flavors and caffeine. Both are 39 g of sugar in 12 ounces. Coke in the US switched to corn syrup between 1980 and 1984. Corn syrup was cheaper here, and part of the reason is that import quotas keep US sugar above the world price. In 2013 the Mexican bottler said it would put corn syrup in some bottles sold inside Mexico, and that everything shipped to the US would stay cane sugar. A year ago Coca-Cola started selling a cane sugar Coke made in the US, in glass, in some cities.

The citric acid in a Celsius is grown by a mold, and the taurine was never near a bull. The list is carbonated water, citric acid, taurine, vegetable juice for color, guarana seed extract, green tea extract, caffeine, ascorbic acid, sucralose, glucuronolactone, ginger root extract and a vitamin pack. Citric acid, second on the list, hasn't come from citrus in a century. It's made by feeding sugar to Aspergillus niger, a black mold, in a tank. Taurine was first pulled out of ox bile in 1827, which is where the bull stories come from, but the taurine in every energy drink is built from ethylene oxide and ammonia. Glucuronolactone is a sugar your own liver makes, produced here from glucose. Sucralose is table sugar with 3 chlorine atoms swapped on so the body can't digest it, about 600 times sweeter than sugar. The caffeine comes from 3 places. Guarana seeds carry about twice the caffeine of a coffee bean by weight, green tea brings some, and pure caffeine is added on top, which is the only one the label has to call caffeine. Celsius prints the total, 200 mg, which the rule doesn't require. The vitamin pack runs 1000% of your biotin because biotin is cheap and water soluble and the panel looks better for it. The front says kiwi strawberry and the corner says 0% juice.