Coca-Cola Reportedly Agreed to Make US Sodas with Real Cane Sugar
Trump announced the potential switch on social media, and it looks like high fructose corn syrup may be the next target of MAHA success.
It is hard to overstate the success of President Donald Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda, which gained momentum when Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., now Secretary of Health and Human Services, joined the campaign.
For example, about 40 U.S. ice cream makers, representing roughly 90% of the American market, have agreed to remove seven major petroleum-based dyes by 2028.
The move is the latest voluntary effort by food manufacturers to heed calls from the Trump administration to remove synthetic dyes over concerns about potential health effects. In recent weeks, companies including Nestle, Kraft Heinz and General Mills said they would pull artificial colors from their foods, too.
“This is a Renaissance moment for health in America,” U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said at a news conference.
About 40 makers of ice cream and frozen dairy desserts said they would remove seven petroleum-based dyes from their products by 2028, according to Michael Dykes, president of the International Dairy Foods Association. The colors are Red 3, Red 40, Green 3, Blue 1, Blue 2, Yellow 5 and Yellow 6. The trade group wouldn’t identify the firms, although Turkey Hill Dairy chief executive Andy Jacobs joined the gathering.
MAHA Elimination Checklist:
– Artificial dyes ✅️
– Artificial sweeteners 🚨
– High fructose corn syrup 🚨
– Pesticides 🚨
– Preservatives 🚨
– Seed oils 🚨
– Titanium dioxide 🚨
– Ultra-processed ingredients 🚨We've made a great start, but there's still a lot of work to do. pic.twitter.com/UUlfW2I5Su
— The Conservative Alternative (@OldeWorldOrder) June 27, 2025
It looks like high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) may be next on the MAHA target list. HFCS is widely used as a sweetener in processed foods and beverages. Some studies suggested that because of the way it is processed metabolically, HFCS is contributing to the obesity crisis.
…[R]ats maintained on a diet rich in HFCS for 6 or 7 months show abnormal weight gain, increased circulating TG and augmented fat deposition. All of these factors indicate obesity. Thus, over consumption of HFCS could very well be a major factor in the “obesity epidemic,” which correlates with the upsurge in the use of HFCS.
Now Trump says that Coca-Cola has agreed to use “real” cane sugar in Coke sold in the United States.
“I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so,” Trump, 79, revealed on Truth Social.
“I’d like to thank all of those in authority at Coca-Cola. This will be a very good move by them — You’ll see. It’s just better!”
Coca-Cola uses high fructose corn syrup in its US production, in contrast to cane sugar in countries like Mexico and the United Kingdom.
BREAKING: Pres. Trump says Coca-Cola has agreed to use real cane sugar in products sold in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/X0MGvd41gk
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 16, 2025
However, if plans for the return of sugar proceed, it may pose some economic challenges.
While Mexican Coca-Cola, made with cane sugar and packaged in glass bottles, is still imported into the U.S., it is a rarity that often comes with a hefty price tag.
In the 1980s, the giant swapped cane sugar, which came with high tariffs, for high-fructose corn syrup — which was made cheaper in the U.S. due to corn farming subsidies.
The switch back to cane sugar could prove costly for the company, with increased manufacturing costs and a shorter shelf life.
Of course, there are corn subsidies that weigh into the economics of soda products.
Do people not understand most companies use corn syrup instead of sugar due to corn subsidies? https://t.co/CKtCGMP7tt
— Isaac Rodriguez (@iRod_97) July 16, 2025
And there may need to be a review of current sugar tariffs to make the switch more palatable — in the financial sense.
If they had dropped the cane sugar tariffs, Coke would've done this already. https://t.co/woOmoE6z9K
— The Reagan Caucus (@NewReaganCaucus) July 16, 2025
But if this news turns out to be true, it is another big win for MAHA.
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its not real coke until the peruvian white stuff is in it
Actually it not real until the world is taught to sing.
In perfect harmony.
It is in it. Coca Cola contains a decocainized coca leaf extract.
Ho-hum. To bad Trump didn’t do anything this week to liven things up for LI’s contributors. Like burning his base and throwing the mid-terms away by melting down on Truth Social, and posting that he no longer wants the support of Trump voters who won’t let go of the “Epstein Hoax”.
as soon as you fix the dems love of pedos and violence towards civility and theft as a source of income…..
Nice try at deflection — just like how LI’s contributors post this article about Coca-Cola instead of doing one about Trump doing a Captain Queeg impersonation on Truth Social.
If you take issue with the posts, here, then get lost and go visit any one of innumerable Dhimmi-crat websites, where you and your fellow leftists can engage in your self-congratulatory circle-jerks.
No one gives a damn about your foolish complaints and dim-witted, idiotic viewpoints.
“No one gives a damn about your foolish complaints and dim-witted, idiotic viewpoints.”
Ok; you think that Trump’s paranoid freakout will be inconsequential.
No, Moonmouth. He thinks YOU’RE inconsequential.
You’re JR in drag, aren’t you?
I suggest, Moonhammed, that you start your own blog.
That way, you can post whatever you want and we can go over there and heckle you to oblivion.
You really are a special kind of stupid, aren’t you.
Shouldn’t you be out ministering to Peruvian natives?
“I suggest, Moonhammed, that you start your own blog.”
I don’t need to. Every political forum except LI has been on fire about Trump’s meltdown every since he posted it.
Lunaticmoth – So do we care about those other blogs? Prob’ly not.
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Moonhammed:
“Every political forum except LI has been on fire about Trump’s meltdown every since he posted it.”
Bullshit. Take a hike, poser.
“Nice try at deflection”
Like going on about Epstein in a story about Coca Cola?
Idiot — learn to spell properly and use correct pronunciation, before spewing your idiotic and dim-witted rants.
It’s “too” bad; not “to” bad, and, periods at the end of sentences come before quotation marks; not after.
LOL, just another Dhimmi-crat moron.
Squealing about a typo to deflect from Trump’s meltdown and attempted cover-up??! You sound as desperate as Trump is.
Posting about Epstein in a column about real sugar in Coke??!
You sound as stupid as JR is.
Ho-hum. Yet another off-topic post by the clown known as Moonmouth.
You’re the Jim Cramer of Legal Insurrection.
Judging by the lasting fury that Trump’s attack on his own supporters has generated elsewhere online, LI’s contributors have been “off-topic” ever since Trump posted that deranged rant.
Piss off, Moonhammed.
This is a really low bar, but you’re even dumber than JR.
Well done, sir. Well done.
Are you Professor Jacobson, posting under a pseudonym? I suspect not, since he’s not likely to engage in name-calling. So, I needn’t leave this comment section.
No, asshole. You “needn’t.”
But you SHOULD.
No, known as the “Ragspierre” of LI!! hahahaha
Ragspierre was at least witty at times. Moonmouth is a one-note troll who sounds his sad trite foghorn randomly, strangely enough when JR is absent.
The concern troll comes in hot and lame!
But the concern troll seems to have successfully disrupted the comment section as there are always people willing to engage with them. 19 comments responding to the concern troll and right at the top of the comments no less.
If people just ignored them and did not give them what they wanted and craved (attention) then they’d probably stop posting and go away. But nope, gotta respond and encourage them to hang around. And yes, I’ve been guilty of doing it too. But there we go and here we are.
I keep pretty close watch of the news and I missed any “Trump Melt Down”. What was he melting down about?
the obesity crisis
go ahead and examine that
how is it a crisis ????
oh I see,,its a crisis b/c its been morally acceptable to pay for your neighbors eating habits and workout regime etc
so then who would get in trouble via the law..if a person went up to another person and while speaking nicely to them told them what to eat and that they needed to workout
oh now we get into the body shaming
body positivity lefty demands of us
its only a crisis b/c once again
people are ,,absent mindedly or not..accepting to be told that others opinions of them are more important than their own about themselves
It’s a crisis because obesity is the number one cause of death in America, and much of it is caused by sugary sodas, whether it is from sugar cane or high fructose corn syrup. I’m somewhat surprised RFK Jr. isn’t addressing this.
Want to cut the obesity epidemic in half overnight? Prohibit welfare snap cards from being used to buy junk food, ice cream, soda etc. Thank me next week
It’s a problem b/c 2/3 of military age population is unable to meet basic height/weight standards. It’s a problem that fat folks tend to develop diabetes (a preventable outcome) and diabetes leads to all sorts of other health issues. Then there’s the cost of medical care arising in whole or part very often funded with tax dollars.
The scale and the mirror don’t lie. Both will inform you if you choose to become a fat body and selfishly demand the rest of society pay for your folly either directly with taxpayer subsidized health IN or indirectly by taking up appointment space from medical providers and ER to deal with the health risks associated with becoming an unhealthy fat body. We need more shame for bad choices in our society and far more consequences applied not less.
When folks have t pay for own health care””….
It’s a crisis because so many Americans are fat, and therefore unhealthy, and we love our fellow Americans, and want them to do well….. And they aren’t…. so we want it fixed…. of course……
There is no reason to use high fructase corn syrup except for cost and ease of use, It’s insidious stuff because it can spike your internal sugar level. I avoid but it’s hard because a lot of companies use it especially in lower cost food commodities.
Both fructose cane sugar (mostly glucose) spike blood sugar rapidly. While there are some differences between how fructose and glucose are metabolized, that’s not one of the differences. There’s some scientific data that indicates fructose will more effectively add the kind of fat to the body that causes fatty liver disease (primarily because that’s where fructose is metabolized). But, you would have to digest a LOT of fructose to materially impact your body compared to a person who was consuming the same amount of glucose-based sugar. Ultimately, we’re consuming too much sugar as a country and this is where HFCS is the demon; not because of the chemical and metabolic differences with glucose but because HFCS is subsidized by the government and therefore significantly cheaper to use as an ingredient. So, it’s added to almost everything.
“… added to almost everything.” Even ketchup! one wonders why ketchup is sweetened.
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You can get in without added sugar; it’s good.
I don’t drink sugary sodas. However there is stuff I would buy but won’t because of HFCS. Like animal crackers. Like lemon ice. Like much of everything. It’s okay. It ends up cutting out stuff I shouldn’t consume anyway.
The real problem I have is the salt in everything. There is even salt in…wait for it… coke. Why?
Because people LOVE salt.
I actually don’t like salt. I developed a dislike for it in my teens and stopped using it.
For a month or so everything tasted bland. Now everything tastes way to salty.
Salt in cooking and food production does a lot of heavy lifting you don’t know about. In Coke, one of its functions is to balance out the contrast between sweetness and bitterness.
Salt is a flavor enhancer. It suppresses bitterness (which some of the ingredients, like caffeine, have) and makes the other flavors work together better.
The bitterness is interesting, There isn’t much salt in coke. Not sure it is needed.
The excuse for salt I usually here is it is a preservative, Yeah right there are a ton of other perservatives in the food so of course another is needed. The problem isn’t that there is so salt, it is there is so much salt it screws with the flavor and is unhealthy.
The reason I believe there is so much salt in everything is the same reason why
there used to be sugar in baby food. A mother would taste it, not find it sweet and complain. So they added sugar (in the past) even though it wasn’t need. I think it is the same with salt, People are conditioned to expect it and complain or won’t buy if it;s not there.
The recommended daily amount of salt is now 1500mg. It used to be 3000mg. It can be hard to stay under 1500mg if you don’t male everything from scratch.
The only reason manufacturers replaced cane sugar with HFCS in the first place is because of the bullshit government subsidies and price fixing on both cane and corn. Had the federal government not chosen winners and losers in that market, your mainline sweetener would still be sugar.
The diabetics don’t have a dog in this fight. Both substances are poison to them. There’s no reason to deny the rest of the population the healthier and more natural sweetener.
^^^ This ^^^
This squared
I saw some comments about “Trumps Subsidies” for why corn syrup is in everything. Unless Trump was President in 1930 it’s not his fault but his Administration is doing something about it. It’s not corn syrup, dyes in food, salt in everything, trans fats or whatever the boogyman of the moment is. It’s American’s eating habits that are doing it.
Oh puh-leeeeease. There’s nothing wrong with HFCS.
If some people have a thing with it, good for them, but give me a break on it being any worse for anyone than sugar.
You may want to take another look at all of the research out there on corn syrup before another post like this
Yeah … corn syrup. It’s a killer.
You can believe whatever you want.
There are a ton of articles and studies on why HFCS is bad. No sense quoting them since it always seems luddites abound.
I can find a ton of articles explaining all sorts of junk science.
I’ve seen lots of blame being laid on food for kids being fat. It’s ridiculous. Kids are fat because they eat too much and don’t do any sports or exercise or move around, at all. Lots of “ailments” that they look to place blame for are not real ailments or are overdiagnosed BS. When I was growing up diabetes was a SERIOUS disease that no one wanted and few talked about. It was serious stuff. But then they came up with new “sorts” of diabete and now everyone has it and, in 95% of cases, it doesn’t mean anything. Autism used to be the worst thing that any parent could hear about a child and it meant the kid would be almost totally incommunicado. Now, they label just about everyone autistic (“on the spectrum” from real autism to nothing) and people ask why autism went from extremely, highly rare to every third kid, now. It’s ridiculous.
But I guarantee you that HFCS has nothing to do with any of it.
It’s likely that one of the main causes of autism is genetics. And the real increase in autism, once we discount that which is due to more sensitive diagnosis and shifting definitions, is probably due to more carriers meeting and having children with each other.
Actually it’s the luddites who are against corn syrup, artificial colors, and all things modern and artificial. It’s luddites who think that anything natural is better than anything man-made. At base it’s nature-worship, just like the deep Green religion.
The mere fact that Trump was able to get Coke to tinker with its secret formula is impressive all by itself.
Coke tinkers all the time. I doubt HCFS was part of the original secret recipe.
The sweeteners are NOT part of the secret formula. There is no sweetener of any kind in the syrup that is made by the company. Sweeteners, water, and carbonation are added by the bottling plants, and they vary from country to country according to local tastes and tax laws.
Sugar prices are too high in the USA because of one family’s having bought congress. So Coke will use real cane only if able.
As Gen X I remember the old school Coca cola with sugar. Nothing beats it IMO. When in El Paso the Mexican bottlers Coca cola with sugar was easily available. Had my Daughter try it and she loved it. Wish I could have gotten her some McDonald’s Fries in beef tallow and heavily salted like the 70’s version to go with it just once.
When I was in Thailand, courtesy of the Air Force, in the 1970s I recall how much better the cokes bought on the local economy tasted compared to the imports we got at the BX. That might explain it.
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It might. But it might also be that the local Thais’ tastes are different from those of Americans, and they like a different proportion of sweetener to syrup. Each bottling plant receives the same syrup, and adds water, sweetener, and carbonation appropriate to the local tastes and conditions.
Before they moved to Vegas, I had a couple occasions to eat at the Heart Attack Grill, which was in the Tempe at the time. Sugared Mexican Coke, beef tallow fries, and all the stuff we loved to eat as kids at the Burger Chef on Sunday family road trips. Mucho Nostalgic.
Surprised you’re still alive. Did you finish or your food or were you punished?
It wasn’t hard to finish at all, especially when you don’t over-order. I got at least one of my burgers for free with the weigh-in discount. (It’s 350 now but it was lower back then.)
When they first came out I thought it was a great idea and mailed the link around. Never eaten there though.
Great. Now put the Yayo back! 😃
I love seed oils. Canola is my go-to popcorn oil. Peanut is the best oil so many things, outside of eating it’s tops for soap making.
I think it’s good that RFK Jr. and HHS should be doing lots of studies and releasing the results for people to assess on their own .,.. but I am NOT a big fan of having them coerce food companies to stop putting lots of this stuff in my food. I want the choice. Of course, I’ll just stop buying the stuff that doesn’t suit me anymore … but when RFK Jr. says something like “Sugar is poison,” – that’s just nutty, retarded lunacy.
And most of these now ubiquitous “chronic illnesses” are not the result of our diet but of the government-heavy health insurance/care model that we have been pushed into (un-Constitutionally). Things like uber-prevalent ADHD are not from food but from criminal doctors and government funding. ADHD is not even a “disease” but just a personality trait.
I used to use peanut oil all the time when cooking chinese, thai, etc….
Olive oil is supposed to be very good. I’ve read cocoanut oil is now considered good.
Some say seed oils aren’t so good.
Sugar may be a poison – or at least high frucose sugar.
I am an endurance athlete .
A – sugar is a very poor energy source for athletic activities .
B – for a large portion of the population , the sugar (or the high frucose sugar ) create digestive issues, ie the sugar cant be digested without creating intestinal problems.
C – there is also those suffering from diabeties / fat/overweight (though that subset of the population the sugar often cant be blamed for the personal behavior that is causing their health problems
Now, get rid of gasohol. Why drive mileage down to pay off farmers. No benefits but high cost.
And it destroys gaskets and ruins engines, on top of it. Complete and utter destructive junk.
In older engines with fuel delivery systems not made for it, yes. Also, gasohol >10% will damage those made without the greater concentration of ethanol in mind. I remember the first few months The Bride owned her 2007 Tucson the car ran well but it took a noticeable performance and fuel consumption hit when pure gasoline was no longer available. I’ve tried pure gasoline in my 2012 Santa Fe but all that happened was I spent a lot of $$ to find out the car was made for it – no improvement at all.
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They just moved farmer payoffs from the blatantly obvious subsidy programs over to “thuh en vy run mint”.
Temejeff
I agree-
Back in the 1970’s, ethonal, gasohol etc made sense to seek alternative fuels due to the arab oil embargo.
however once it became apparant that it was less efficient, higher levels of pollution, damage to engines, etc, it should have been abandoned . Unfortunately Its mandated via an act of congress .
Anyone who can’t pick between if Trump or a bunch of conspiracy theorist assholes is the person to trust needs mental help immediately.
Thank you Trump, and to Trump I am sorry a bunch of jackasses hiding behind internet names are trying to demean you and accuse you of being a protector of and possibly a ______ I will not even name it, please keep giving us our victories we do not consider them appetizers and real Republicans as opposed love the victories you give us.
I’d like to have all the info released so we can put all this to bed v it being a bleeding wound….especially since the WH and DoJ made a huge PR hype effort about releasing the information yet ….now the folks the WH was hyping up are cast as nutty kooky conspiracy theorists who the WH is telling their votes and concerns don’t matter?
This whole Epstein files episode was very poorly handled. The only way out is transparency. Release it all, every image, every document, every video. Redact the names of minors and blur their faces but put it ALL into the public domain. That’s the only way to stop the bleeding.
What about Phil Haney? Amd the memory holed vegas shooter Rt?
Indeed. Release the info gathered in all the mass shootings as well. The information void will get filled with conjecture, innuendo, wild speculation if folks don’t get authentic and complete access. Dumping into public shuts down 99% of the speculation, the remaining 1% wouldn’t ever be convinced to shift from their paranoid fantasy.
Yes none of gov biz at all either way but real sugar tastes better
If they go back to cane sugar and sell it in 8 packs of 16 oz (preferably returnable) bottles, I’d start drinking it again.
If it’s still in plastic and aluminum…pass.
Meaning what?? This symbolic crusade is more dumb than prohibition. Nanny state hysteria is peaking. RFK is woke joke. Green M&Ms will kill you. lol
What if I drink generic diet cola?
Fight me.
My great grandmother had a package store and she had those little glass bottles of coke, also wink and dr. Pepper. Right out of the big refrigerator case, yum!
While we’re at it, I’d like to bring back Stuckey’s.
But not their damn billboards.
When the union destroyed the factory that my Dad worked in for 30 years and it closed down, he converted the barn into an antique shop. Did well with that for the remainder of his life, but that’s another story.
The point is, one of the centerpieces of his shop was an antique coke vending machine. It was the kind that had the tall, narrow door that opened and you could see the bottle caps of the 10 oz bottles in the window. You put in your dime and the machine would let you pull one out of the slot.
They went out of use because there was no way to change how much money was required to pull a bottle out, so when the Fed decided to start inflating our currency to tax us without saying they were taxing us, those machines were no longer useful.
Dad restored it and got it working again, more as a conversation piece and “draw” than as a profit making tool, so he put an antique ceramic jug on a small table next to it that said “put a dime in the machine and a quarter in me for a drink” (this was over 25 years ago, now it would be a dollar in the jug at least). It was pretty much on the honor system, but he said he never came up short.
It was a cool machine. It was worth the 35 cents just for the novelty of using it. Unfortunately, after Dad passed, most of that stuff was auctioned off and that machine went for way too much money for me to buy it. I would have loved to have had it. I don’t begrudge it…mom needed the money more than I needed a memento. I got other stuff to remember Dad by.
Anyway, your great grandmother story reminded me of that.
The old school barber shop in my small town still has a working model just as you described. It was ‘old’ 40+ years ago when I was in middle school but the son and grandson of the original barber keep it going.
I loved those machines and wanted to buy soda just so I could use one. Of course growing up those were the only soda machines there were.
Just curious: how did LI cover the story of Michael Bloomberg banning trans fats in the city?
The difference is that was a ban, this is more like persuasion, except that when it’s the president of the USA who asks you to do something, and you’re a large corporation that needs the government’s goodwill, it’s not that easy to say no.