Kosher Coca-Cola gaining popularity

NEW YORK, March 19 (UPI) -- U.S. fans of old-fashioned Coca-Cola are snapping up cans and bottles of kosher Coca-Cola, made with pure sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup.

Coca-Cola made the switch from sugar to high-fructose corn syrup in regular Coca-Cola in the 1980s, the New York Post reported.

Food blogger Jason Perlow, founder of offthebroiler.com, told the Post he got "thousands of hits" when he posted an alert last week that the kosher Coke had started appearing in New York stores.

During Passover, Jews cannot consume wheat, oats, barley, rye and spelt that have come in contact with moisture for more than 18 minutes. Many Jews also avoid rice, lentils, beans and corn.

Coca-Cola's Passover products have a yellow cap on the 2-liter bottles marked with an O circling a U next to a P and the words "kosher for Passover" in Hebrew.