{"id":1665,"date":"2025-07-17T02:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/1665\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T02:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:54:04","slug":"trump-says-coca-cola-agreed-to-use-real-cane-sugar-in-u-s-after-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/1665\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Coca-Cola agreed to use real cane sugar in U.S. after talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Coca-Cola products created for the U.S. are typically sweetened with corn syrup, but the company uses cane sugar in some other countries.David Zalubowski\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> said on Wednesday that Coca-Cola had agreed to use cane sugar in its beverages in the U.S. after his discussions with the company.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so. I\u2019d like to thank all of those in authority at Coca-Cola,\u201d Trump said in a post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Coca-Cola said the Atlanta-based company will share details on new offerings soon, and that it appreciates Trump\u2019s enthusiasm for its product.<\/p>\n

Coca-Cola produced for the U.S. market is typically sweetened with corn syrup, while the company uses cane sugar in some other countries.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration\u2019s Make America Healthy Again initiative, named for the social movement aligned with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has pushed food companies to alter their formulations to remove ingredients like artificial dyes.<\/p>\n

How bugs and beet juice could play roles in the race to replace artificial dyes in food<\/a><\/p>\n

Kennedy has also been critical of the amount of sugar consumed in the American diet and has said that updated dietary guidelines released this summer will advise Americans to eat \u201cwhole food.\u201d<\/p>\n

A May report by the MAHA Commission, a panel convened by Trump and tasked with identifying the root causes of chronic disease, said substantial consumption of high-fructose corn syrup could play a role in childhood obesity and other conditions.<\/p>\n

Medical experts recommend limiting added sugar in diets, but have not identified significant differences between cane sugar and high-fructose corn syrup.<\/p>\n

Corn producers concentrated in the U.S. Midwest have long wielded considerable influence over lawmakers in Washington. The President\u2019s home state of Florida is the nation\u2019s top sugarcane producer.<\/p>\n

\u201cReplacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar doesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d said Corn Refiners Association President and CEO John Bode. \u201cReplacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar would cost thousands of American food manufacturing jobs, depress farm income, and boost imports of foreign sugar, all with no nutritional benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The MAHA Commission includes Kennedy, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and several other cabinet members and officials.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has approved some states\u2019 requests to exclude soda from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), adding pressure to companies like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Coca-Cola products created for the U.S. are typically sweetened with corn syrup, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,45,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}