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Super Sugar Tequila: Fortified with Four Essential Additives

Super Sugar Tequila: Fortified with Four Essential Additives

Episode 82 Published 4 years, 5 months ago
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How sweet it is! Mexican regulations allow up to 1% of your tequila to be additives, the four most common being sugar-based syrup, glycerin, oak extract, and caramel coloring. Purists get outraged by this — it’s cheating! But we’re far more interested in what this means from a health standpoint. So we called in Agave Road Trip medical correspondent Dr. Ryan Aycock. Cocktail MD gives us the lowdown on tequila additives in this episode of Agave Road Trip!

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