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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Coca-Cola volition beryllium changing its recipe.
"I person been speaking to Coca-Cola astir utilizing REAL Cane Sugar successful Coke successful the United States, and they person agreed to bash so," Trump wrote connected Truth Social. "I’d similar to convey each of those successful authorization astatine Coca-Cola. This volition beryllium a precise bully determination by them — You’ll see. It’s conscionable better!"
It's been 41 years since U.S. Coke switched from sugar to cheaper high-fructose maize syrup, resulting from the Ronald Reagan-era sweetener import quotas that caused home sweetener prices to spike.
“The authorities intervened during the Reagan medication and signed a instrumentality that placed precocious tariffs and quotas connected imported cane sugar,” Ben Michael, lawyer astatine Michael & Associates, told Reader's Digest. “And U.S. commercialized policies inactive bounds sweetener imports to this day.
"These tariffs made sweetener successful the U.S. outgo much than successful galore different countries. However, determination are nary tariffs connected HFCS — made from bully ol’ American maize — truthful it avoids these other fees, redeeming Coca-Cola money."
Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey presented Trump with a customized Diet Coke vessel for his inauguration. The contented has taken spot since 2005, wherever commemorative bottles people statesmanlike transitions. However, it faced backlash for the bottle, with the media saying the institution was grovelling for Trump.
Many judge that cane sweetener has much affirmative wellness benefits, but nutrition scientists reason that HFCS and sweetener are chemically similar.
The beverage concatenation has yet to corroborate the change.
