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President Donald Trump said Coca -Cola agreed to use a cane sugar in soda with American name, but the beverage giant did not confirm his claim.
“I have been talking with Coca -Cola for using the actual cane sugar in the United States and agreed to do so.” Trump, a fan of Diet Coke, said in a social media post. X“This will be a great move by them -you will see.
When Coca -Cola spoke about Trump’s position, the company thanked the president’s “passion for our symbolic Coca -Cola brand.” “The details of new innovative products within the scope of Coca -Cola will be shared soon.”
Coca -Cola, which was sold in the United States for 40 years, was generally sweet as a high fructose corn syrup. Coke in some countries, such as Mexico, uses sugar.
Headquartered in Atlanta, a CPG company imports a colloque from Mexico to the United States, prefers the taste or a consumer who sees sugar as a natural ingredient.
The original formula of Coca -Cola, which dates back to the late 1800s, used the cane sugar as a sweetener. The company turned into a high flat corn in the early 1980s with the increase in sugar costs.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Health and Welfare Minister I criticized the high fructose corn syrup As an “formula for creating obesity and diabetes.” Kennedy, who sweared to make the United States healthy again, also forced a food company to remove artificial colors from the product.
John Bode, the president and CEO of the Corn Refiners Association, said in a statement that it is meaningless to replace the high fructose corn syrup with a cane sugar.
“We will lower thousands of US food manufacturing jobs and farm imports, increase foreign sugar imports, and no nutritional benefits,” Bode said.
