Finally “real sugar”
Trump wants to change the Coca-Cola recipe-that could cost thousands of US jobs
Sugar directive from the White House: Diet-Cola-drinker Donald Trump wants to enforce a change in Coca-Cola. This could massively harm many US farmers.
It is well known that Donald Trump is a big Coca-Cola fan. On the desk in the Oval Office, he had a button installed, with which he can get his favorite drink at any time. However, this is sugar -free cola light. Whether Coca-Cola continues to use corn syrup in its regular soft drinks or sugar could actually not matter. But it is obviously not.
On Wednesday, Trump announced a small revolution for the sugar cola on his truth social account. He spoke to the group about the use of real cane sugar in Coca-Cola in the United States and they agreed “. This will be “a very good step of you”, Trump wrote. Because, according to the striking reason: “It’s just better!”
That sounds so crazy again that you don’t even know where to start. When it comes to the fact that the US President wants to personally determine the world’s most famous soft drink? When asked why Cola-Fan Trump wants to replace corn syrup with cane sugar, even though he prefers sugar-free diet coke? Or with the fact that the proposed change could sabotage Trump’s great economic policy “made in America” agenda?
Coca-Cola with corn syrup or sugar cane?
To do this, you have to know that Coca-Cola has so far rely on sugar from maize syrup on the US home market. It is cheap, cardboard-sweet and is made in masses in the USA, which is why Coca-Cola has been using it for its soft drinks since the mid-1980s. In the neighboring country of Mexico, on the other hand, Coca-Cola uses cane sugar in production, which is considered a higher quality. “Linema lovers have long been using Cola from Mexico, which, according to their supporters, tastes fresher and less sugar than their American counterpart,” says the “Washington Post”.
The Trump government apparently does not want to leave that the fact that the small neighbor Mexico has better cola. Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is otherwise more noticeable with questionable views, is currently forcing an initiative (“Make America Healthy Again”), which should generally urge manufacturers to make their food healthier. The initiative’s sights, among other things, the fructose -containing corn syrup.
Mais lobby runs storm
If the Trump government banished the corn syrup from the cola and other products, it should not only make friends in its own ranks. Because affected by the Mexicanization of the Coca-Cola would be US farmers in the middle west, the so-called “corn belt”, which belongs to the core electorate of Trump. There is already a headwind: “Replacing corn syrup with high fructose content with cane sugar does not make sense,” complains John Bode, President of the lobby association of corn processing industry in a public statement.
Trump stands for American jobs in the manufacturing business, American farmers and the reduction in trade deficit, Bode explained. The cola advance is counterproductive. “The replacement of corn syrup with high fructose content by cane sugar would cost thousands of jobs in the American food industry, reduce the income of farmers and boost imports of foreign sugar – and all without any nutritional benefit,” said the lobbyer.
Coca-Cola himself commented on Trump’s proclamation of the alleged sugar turn. “We appreciate President Trump’s enthusiasm for our iconic brand Coca-Cola,” said the group. Details on new, innovative offers would be announced shortly, it said.
By the way, Germany is untouched by the American Coca-Cola sugar debate. In Germany, the group uses 98 percent sugar beet from domestic fields as a sugar source.
with agency material
Source: Stern
