Give back its greatness to the American Coca-Cola?
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Coca-Cola had agreed, on his proposal, to use real cane sugar in his drink in the United States, although the company has not confirmed this decision.
The abandonment of corn syrup with high fructose content in American Coca-Cola would allow Coca-Cola to comply more in its practices in other countries, especially in Mexico and Australia. But that would have no impact on Mr. Trump’s favorite drink, the Coke Diet, which uses aspartame as a drink without calories.
“I discussed Coca-Cola with the use of real cane sugar in coke in the United States, and they accepted,” wrote the president on his social network. “I would like to thank all Coca-Cola officials. It will be an excellent initiative on their part. You will see. It’s just better! »»
A Coca-Cola spokesman, located in Atlanta, said in a statement that the company appreciated Mr. Trump’s enthusiasm and promised to communicate more information on the new offers of his products soon.
Coca-Cola did not give more details. However, the company has long satisfied American fans of cane sugar by important glass bottles of Mexican Coca-Cola in the United States since 2005.
” Absurd “
The return of sugar in American production, meanwhile, could affect the country’s corn producers, whose crops are used in the manufacture of artificial sweeteners.
“Replacing corn syrup with high fructose content with cane sugar is absurd,” said John Bode, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Corn Refiners Association, in a press release.
“President Trump defends American industrial jobs, American farmers and the reduction of the trade deficit. Replacing high -fructose corn syrup with cane sugar would cost thousands of jobs in the American food industry, would reduce agricultural income and stimulate imports of foreign sugar, all without any nutritional advantage. »»
Mr. Trump is himself such a lover of Coke Diet that he had a red button in the oval office installed so that an butler of the White House can bring him one.
Despite his love of amber drink, his relationship with the company was not always soft.
In a series of publications in 2012, Donald Trump suggested that sugar-free drinks could be linked to weight gain, before writing: “Coca-Cola is not happy with me; It doesn’t matter, I will continue to drink this bullshit. »»
Years later, at a G20 summit in 2017, you could see a bottle of Coke Diet next to its chair. THE New York Times reported in 2018 that he drank a dozen a day.
With Dee-Ann Durbin, journalist at the Associated Press in Detroit, and Josh Funk, in Omaha, in Nebraska.
