Trump wants Coca-Cola sold in the United States to use sugarcane sugar instead of corn syrup.
US President Donald Trump announced that Coca-Cola agreed to use sugar sugar to sweeten your drinks sold in the United States.
Currently, Coca-Cola Use corn syrup In its American products, but Trump’s secretary of health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., expressed concern about the impacts of the ingredient on health.
“I have talked to Coca-Cola about the use of real sugarcane sugar in Coca in the United States, and they agreed to do this“Trump wrote on social networks.“ I would like to thank all those in a position of authority at Coca-Cola. ”
Without explicitly confirming the adjustment of the recipe, a Coca-Cola spokesman said they “thanked President Trump’s enthusiasm,” that “more details about new innovative offers on our Coca-Cola product line will be shared soon.”
Trump stated in a publication on Wednesday (16/07) on the Truth Social platform: “It will be a good initiative of them – You will see. It’s just better! ”
While Coca-Cola sold in the US is usually sweetened with corn syrup, Coca-Cola in other countries, such as Mexico, the United Kingdom, Australia and Brazil, tends to use sugarcane sugar.
In April, Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey told investors that “we continue to advance sugar reduction in our drinks ”.
Quincey said that the company based in Atlanta “did this by changing revenues, as well as using our global marketing and distribution network resources to increase awareness and the interest in our constant expansion portfolio. ”
But any decision to use sugarcane sugar instead of corn syrup can leave a bitter taste for US corn farmers.
John Bode, president and CEO Association of Corn Refiners, said in a statement: “Replace the high fructose corn syrup with sugarcane sugar It would cost thousands of American jobs In food manufacturing, it would reduce agricultural performance and increase foreign sugar imports, all without any nutritional benefit. ”
The US Secretary of Health and its Make America Healthy Again movement has argued that companies remove from their ingredients such as corn syrup, seed oils and artificial dyes, associating them with a number of health problems.
Kennedy Jr. has also been critical of sugar May Americans consume and, according to reports, plan to update national eating guidelines soon.
Trump regularly takes Diet Coke, who uses the artificial aspartame sweetener, and even had a button on the table in the oval room from the White House to ask the soda to be served.
