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Coca-Cola has laid out plans to launch a product made with US cane sugar this year, days after Donald Trump claimed the company had agreed to replace high-fructose corn syrup.<\/p>\n
The company announced the change in a quarterly earnings report released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
On a conference call with investors, Coca-Cola\u2019s chairperson and CEO, James Quincey, said the company planned \u201cto expand our trademark \u2026 product range with US cane sugar to reflect consumer interest in differentiated experiences\u201d.<\/p>\n
Quincey said the new offering would \u201ccomplement\u201d Coca-Cola\u2019s core portfolio of drinks, suggesting it could arrive as an alternative, rather than a replacement, for its flagship Coke product.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is really an \u2018and\u2019 strategy and not an \u2018or\u2019 strategy,\u201d Quincey said, according to the Wall Street Journal. \u201cWe are going to continue to use a lot of the corn syrup that we do now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The drink maker\u2019s Mexican Coke is made with cane sugar and already sold in the US \u2013 but often at nearly twice the price.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the US doesn\u2019t make enough cane sugar to satisfy demand in the country.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s announcement from Coca-Cola came as food and drink companies have rolled out plans to make changes amid \u201cMake America healthy again\u201d (Maha) campaign of the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.<\/p>\n
However, <\/strong>experts say that drinks made with cane sugar instead of corn syrup are not necessarily healthier.<\/p>\n Eva Greenthal, senior policy scientist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit consumer advocacy group, previously told CNN: \u201cExcess consumption of sugar from any source harms health. To make the US food supply healthier, the Trump administration should focus on less sugar, not different sugar.\u201d<\/p>\n Coca-Cola had defended its use of corn syrup \u2013 a product some blame for soaring US obesity rates \u2013 after Trump claimed on 16 July he had convinced the brand to switch to using sugar cane in its US drinks.<\/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 the president said in a social media post.<\/p>\n \u201cThis will be a very good move by them \u2013 You\u2019ll see. It\u2019s just better!\u201d<\/p>\n Coca-Cola said in a statement that \u201chigh fructose corn syrup (HFCS) \u2013 which we use to sweeten some of our beverages \u2013 is actually just a sweetener made from corn. It\u2019s safe; it has about the same number of calories per serving as table sugar and is metabolized in a similar way by your body.\u201d<\/p>\n It added that the American Medical Association (AMA) \u201chas confirmed that HFCS is no more likely to contribute to obesity than table sugar or other full-calorie sweeteners\u201d. And it said: \u201cPlease be assured that Coca-Cola brand soft drinks do not contain any harmful substances.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2023, the AMA released a statement saying it recognized \u201cthat at the present time, insufficient evidence exists to specifically restrict use of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) or other fructose-containing sweeteners in the food supply or to require the use of warning labels on products containing HFCS\u201d.<\/p>\n Initially, the drinks giant responded with a neutral statement of appreciation for \u201cpresident Trump\u2019s enthusiasm\u201d for Coke, and a vague message about \u201cnew innovative offerings within our Coca-Cola product range\u201d to come.<\/p>\n The soft drinks company released an additional statement making positive claims about high-fructose corn syrup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coca-Cola has laid out plans to launch a product made with US cane sugar this year, days after Donald Trump claimed the company had agreed to replace high-fructose corn syrup. The company announced the change in a quarterly earnings report released on Tuesday. On a conference call with investors, Coca-Cola\u2019s chairperson and CEO, James Quincey,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[5561,5559,5560,3164,1105,5562,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-12010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-cane","9":"tag-cocacola","10":"tag-coke","11":"tag-launch","12":"tag-post","13":"tag-sugar","14":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}