{"id":14384,"date":"2025-07-22T02:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/14384\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:19:12","slug":"watch-why-is-donald-trump-asking-coca-cola-to-change-its-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/14384\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Why is Donald Trump asking Coca-Cola to change its recipe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US president Donald Trump has said Coca-Cola has agreed to change its recipe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump wants corn syrup to be replaced by cane sugar, but what would that mean for the popular fizzy drink?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coca Cola has not confirmed any recipe change, and posting on social media on Wednesday, defended corn syrup &#8211; saying it was &#8220;no more likely to contribute to obesity than table sugar or other full-calorie sweeteners&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC&#8217;s Georgina Rannard takes a look at what changing the ingredients might mean for the drink, and for the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US president Donald Trump has said Coca-Cola has agreed to change its recipe. Trump wants corn syrup to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[102,6636,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-14384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}