[Sca-cooks] Re: sugar substitutes

[Daniel Myers]

On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 01:12 PM, Susan Fox-Davis wrote:

> El Hermoso Dormido wrote:
>
>> On those rare occasions you can find them, I still do like
>> sucrose-sweetened
>> beverages, but it seems no major bottler uses it any more...
>
> Check a Jewish neighborhood the weeks before and during Passover.
> Kosher l'Pesach
> Cokes contain only cane sugar, because corn products [including corn
> syrup] are
> banned.

Please check that.  It was my understanding that the Cokes that are
kosher for Passover are sweetened exclusively with high fructose corn
syrup because sucrose is sometimes processed with charcoal made from
animal bones.  Note that I am not Jewish and am operating on
second-hand information in this regard.

- Doc


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