According to US President, Coca-Cola is said to Donald Trump Also in the United States with sweeten from sugar cane instead of just corn syrup. He spoke to the company about it and those responsible had agreed, Trump wrote to the Truth Social online platform.
Among other things, it remained unclear whether sugar cane could completely replace the corn syrup – or the two sweeteners will exist side by side in the US market. The Coca-Cola Group only said that Trump’s “enthusiasm” for the brand-and that “there will be more details on new innovative offers within the Coca-Cola product range” soon. In the USA You can buy Mexican Coca-Cola with sugar cane.
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In US production, sugar-containing Coca-Cola drinks, unlike in other countries, have been sweetened with a huge fructose content since the 1980s. The syrup is cheaper, sweeter and longer durable than other types of sugar. Among other things, he is criticized by Trump’s Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. Trump himself is known as a drinker sugar -free Diet Coke with sweeteners. Nevertheless, he wrote at Truth Social that everyone would see that Coca-Cola with sugar made of sugar cane was “just better”.
The share of a large producer of the corn syrup with a high fructose content, the Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, fell by almost one percent at the start of the US trade on Thursday.
An industry association of corn processing industry criticized Trump’s announcement. There is no point in replacing the syrup with cane sugar, John Bode argued. Because this does not have a nutritional advantage – but thousands of US jobs will cost, which reduce the income from agricultural companies and increase the imports of foreign sugar, he warned.
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