New York, CNN — Coca-Cola confirmed Tuesday that it will release a new Coke made with cane sugar. The announcement follows a social media post from President Donald Trump last week in which he claimed he persuaded the company to replace high-fructose corn syrup.
Last week, Trump said that Coca-Cola had “agreed” to use cane sugar in its colas. But Tuesday’s announcement reveals that Coke’s flagship recipe isn’t changing and will continue to use high-fructose corn syrup. Instead, the company will create a separate Coke product that includes cane sugar.
American-made Coca-Cola is made with high-fructose corn syrup, an ingredient that Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has aggressively advocated against.
But sugar-filled soda isn’t heathy, health experts say – even if it is made with cane sugar instead of corn syrup.
“Excess consumption of sugar from any source harms health,” Eva Greenthal, senior policy scientist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group, previously told CNN.
“To make the US food supply healthier, the Trump administration should focus on less sugar, not different sugar.”
Meanwhile, rival PepsiCo isn’t making any major changes. However, its newly announced prebiotic soda contains cane sugar as does its recently acquired Poppi brand …
