Overview

• President Trump said on Truth Social that Coca-Cola had agreed to replace high-fructose corn syrup with real cane sugar in its flagship drink.
• The company said in its earnings release that it will add a U.S. cane sugar–sweetened version to its signature Coke lineup this fall.
• Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian of Tufts University said both sweeteners are about 50 percent fructose and 50 percent glucose, meaning the metabolic impact remains the same.
• John Bode, president of the Corn Refiners Association, warned that a switch could cost thousands of American jobs, depress farm incomes and boost sugar imports.
• U.S. Coke has used high-fructose corn syrup since the mid-1980s because corn was cheaper under government subsidies, whereas markets like Mexico use cane sugar.