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They Changed Coke and Didn't Tell Anyone

Season 12 Episode 1 | 14m 19s

Our last video about Mexican Coke made a bold claim: that Mexican Coke has no (unhydrolyzed) sugar in it. Two chemistry professors called us on that claim, so George visited them to run definitive tests on their expensive instruments… and he accidentally discovered that Coke is doing something they haven’t told ANYONE about. And that raised some questions that only ‪@planetmoney‬ could answer.

Aired: 02/01/26
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