Coca-Cola dodges after Trump says soda will switch back to cane sugar
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Coca-Cola in the United States will begin to be manufactured with cane sugar, but the company did not explicitly say that it was the case when it was questioned later on Trump’s claim.
Trump said on Wednesday afternoon on Truth Social on Wednesday afternoon that he spoke in Coca-Cola for the use of cane sugar in the sodas sold in the United States and that the company accepted its idea.
“It will be a very good decision by them – you will see. It’s just better!” Trump wrote in the post.
But Coca-Cola did not engage in the change when NBC News later posed the post of Trump.
“We appreciate President Trump’s enthusiasm for our emblematic Coca-Cola brand,” said a company spokesperson in a statement. “More details on new innovative offers in our range of Coca-Cola products will soon be shared.”
It is not clear if Coca-Cola accepted Trump’s proposal or if the beloved soda will always be made with corn syrup.
The Make America Healthy Again initiative, of the Trump administration, named after the social movement aligned with the health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., prompted food companies to modify their formulations to eliminate ingredients such as artificial dyes.
Coca-Cola produced for the American market is generally softened with corn syrup, while the company uses cane sugar in certain other countries, including Mexico and various European countries.
Coca-Cola announced in 1984 that it was going to “considerably increase” the amount of corn syrup he used in his American products, the New York Times reported at the time.
Coca-Cola said that she would use corn syrup to weaken the bottle and canned coke, as well as caffeine-free coke, but left her “flexibility” to use other sweeteners, such as sugar or corn syrup with high fructose content, Times reported.
Kennedy criticized the amount of sugar consumed in the American diet and said that the updated food directives published this summer advise people to “eat whole food”.
Trump is known to enjoy Coca-Cola products. The Wall Street Journal reported that a Diet Coke button, which allows it to order the Soda on demand, joined it in the oval office for its two conditions.
