Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!petsd!peora!jer From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) Newsgroups: net.misc.coke Subject: Re: False advertising on Old Coke cans? Message-ID: <1430@peora.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 08:13:27 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.1430 Posted: Mon Aug 5 08:13:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 23:38:24 EDT References: <455@moncol.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 36 > How can this be? Shouldn't it have said so on the label? If corn syrup were > being used and the label only listed sugar, wouldn't this be violating some > law or FTC rule or something?? This is a hard question; probably posting it to net.legal was a good idea, since the answer would be in the definition of "sugar". Technically, both fructose (in the corn syrup) and sucrose (in the table sugar) are sugars; but then, so is the cellulose in wood. I think (though I may definitely be wrong) that fructose is a monosaccharide, whereas sucrose is a disaccharide; this would mean that it was easier for human beings to break down, since I think the series of reactions that breaks down sugars and stores the energy as ATP starts out with monosaccharides, with an extra step in there beforehand to break down the disaccharides. (But then, biochemistry was probably my worst subject, and that was years ago, so I might be wrong.) I think Shasta made a lot of publicity out of the fact that they used fructose, back when health foods were a popular fad, as a result of that. But in any case, unless there is some legal definition that makes the word "sugar" on the can mean "sucrose," it would appear that the can would be correct in saying "sugar" for corn syrup. (Not corn oil as someone mentioned earlier, though! Corn syrup, like in Karo (tm) pancake syrup.) ------ Shasta and Karo are trademarks (probably of Shasta Cola Co. and Karo Syrup Co, but I am not sure.) -- Shyy-Anzr: J. Eric Roskos UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!jer US Mail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 "Frr ubj Tbq jvgu uvf yvtugavat nyjnlf fzvgrf gur ovttre navznyf, naq jvyy abg fhssre gurz gb jnk vafbyrag; juvyr gurfr bs n yrffre ohyx punsr uvz abg." -- Negnonavf