Final week, President Donald Trump posted on Reality Social, implying that he had single-handedly satisfied Coca-Cola to begin utilizing cane sugar in its signature soda, as a substitute of the excessive fructose corn syrup that has been a part of the recipe since 1974. The indignity! Loads of Individuals have been hoarding Mexican Coke made with cane sugar for years, begging the corporate to make it simpler to get within the U.S., and out of the blue this fascist clown is who they take heed to? I didn’t wish to consider it, particularly given Trump’s propensity for bluster and falsehoods. However he’s at the very least partially right right here.
Within the firm’s most up-to-date earnings report, Coca-Cola introduced that “this fall in america, the corporate plans to launch an providing made with U.S. cane sugar to increase its Trademark Coca-Cola product vary. This addition is designed to enhance the corporate’s robust core portfolio and provide extra decisions throughout events and preferences.” Not like Trump’s declare that Coca-Cola “agreed” to make use of cane sugar, this will probably be a separate product, not a alternative for the excessive fructose corn syrup Coca-Cola method at present in the marketplace.
Excessive fructose corn syrup is likely one of the many elements Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has railed in opposition to. However once more, you’ll nonetheless be capable of get corn syrup Coke, and “changing one sugar with one other isn’t going to have a lot of an impact on well being,” Dariush Mozaffarian, director of the Meals is Drugs Institute at Tufts College, instructed the Washington Publish.
Loads of individuals who aren’t anti-vaxxers have considerations concerning the prevalence of excessive fructose corn syrup in American foodways, and crucially, Coca-Cola didn’t point out Trump or MAHA in any respect in its briefing. Maybe the corporate is catering to the MAHA agenda, or maybe it’s simply recognized an untapped market that can permit it to develop its $12.5 billion quarterly income. I’m wanting ahead to having a extra usually out there cane sugar model, it’s simply deeply annoying that Trump is making an attempt to take credit score for this. Why would he even care? He’s a fridge cigarette man!
