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 an alternative 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 all of the sudden this fascist clown is who they hearken to? I didn’t need to consider it, particularly given Trump’s propensity for bluster and falsehoods. However he’s not less than 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 broaden its Trademark Coca-Cola product vary. This addition is designed to enhance the corporate’s sturdy core portfolio and supply extra decisions throughout events and preferences.” Not like Trump’s declare that Coca-Cola “agreed” to make use of cane sugar, this shall be a separate product, not a substitute for the excessive fructose corn syrup Coca-Cola components at the moment available on the market.
Excessive fructose corn syrup is likely one of the many components Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has railed in opposition to. However once more, you’ll nonetheless have the ability to 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 Medication Institute at Tufts College, instructed the Washington Put up.
Loads of individuals who aren’t anti-vaxxers have issues 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 may permit it to develop its $12.5 billion quarterly income. I’m trying ahead to having a extra frequently accessible 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!