Donald Trump: Coca-Cola reacts to his sugar announcement

Coca-Cola cannot be looked at the cards. , the beverage giant will fundamentally change its recipe in the USA, the group reacts remarkably reluctantly to the presidential announcement.

“We appreciate President Trump’s enthusiasm for our iconic brand Coca-Cola, “. Further details on “new innovative offers within our Coca-Cola product range” would “be announced shortly”. A direct confirmation of Trump’s claim is in vain.

Trump had presented the change as a decided thing: “I spoke to Coca-Cola about the use of real cane sugar in cola in the United States, and they agreed,” wrote the president on Thursday. Instead of cheap corn syrup, as it has since the 1980s, Coca-Cola in the United States will be sweetened with sugar cane again in the future.

The announcement is no coincidence. Trump’s Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (71) and many experts criticize the corn syrup with high fructose content as extremely unhealthy. Numerous studies associate excessive corn syrup consumption with obesity, diabetes and other diseases of civilization.

In many shops and restaurants in the USA, Mexican Coca -Cola with sugar cane is already available – and this is not only considered a healthier, but also superior to the taste. Coca-Cola also uses sugar in Germany, which comes from 98 percent from domestic sugar beet. Only in the United States does the group rely almost exclusively on the cheaper but controversial maize syrup.

Donald Trump is considered a big fan of the group’s caffeinated soft drink. However, he himself relies on the sugar -free version with low -calorie sweeteners. According to a portrait of the “New York Times”, Trump is said to drink up to twelve doses Diet Coke (in Germany Coca-Cola Light) per day. His legendary “Diet-Coke button” became famous on his desk in the Oval Office: If it is pressed, a servant with a can of cola appears a short time later on a silver tray.