Overview

• Coca-Cola will debut a US-sourced sugarcane-sweetened cola this fall and will continue offering its high fructose corn syrup variants.
• The initiative follows President Trump’s July 16 social media post and the company’s official announcement on July 22.
• HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has targeted high fructose corn syrup over obesity and diabetes concerns as part of the Make America Healthy Again campaign.
• Researchers have not reached consensus on whether cane sugar is measurably healthier than high fructose corn syrup.
• The new product brings to US consumers a formula already sold in markets like Mexico alongside existing imports of sugarcane-sweetened Coke.