There isn't any raw sugar in coke (in the States).

Sure there is. They call them "Mexican Cokes" and they come in bottles (12 oz.). I used to buy them by the case at Costco for ~18.

Also, I was using 'sugar' generically, and perhaps I should've said 'sugars' (i.e. mono- and di-saccharides)[0]. Fructose counts as a sugar in my mind. Maybe the naturally occurring substances we desire should not be extracted, and the other constituents that occur alongside our desired constituent has an evolutionary reason for being there.

[0] Sucrose is glucose + fructose:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose

I was thinking of cane sugar, which is more common in Asia (and elsewhere, I guess, but not in NA).

Cane sugar was, second only to cotton, responsible for continuing the slave trade here in the Americas. Cane sugar is sucrose, and I had made guess based on your previous comments that you were referring to cane sugar.

Edit: I should've just written"

cane_sugar==sucrose

sucrose==glucose+fructose

corn==fructose //(subsidized feed stock for ethanol used in fuel in the US)