The ball-and-stick and first space-filling model show that sucrose is a large molecule made up of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. Sucrose has many O–H bonds which are polar. These polar areas are shown ...

In his words, corn syrup is "composed of glucose ... not the same kind of sugar as sucrose, which is what the white table sugar is made of." Alton Brown is, of course, right — the chemical name ...

Coke actually used to be made with sucrose (made from cane or beet sugar) instead of high-fructose corn syrup, but when the switch was made, Coca-Cola sodas became off-limits on Passover.