Coca-Cola gets roped into making America healthy again
Coke joins PepsiCo, Kraft Heinz and dozens of other big US companies that have pledged to remove artificial ingredients after Trump administration pressure.
It was a social media moment that every US company dreads. Last week, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that Coca-Cola had agreed to change the domestic formula of its namesake drink to feature “REAL Cane Sugar” rather than high-fructose corn syrup.
The company patently was not ready. Though it thanked the president for his “enthusiasm”, it also defended HFCS on social media as “just a sweetener made from corn”. Six days later it finally confirmed it would launch a US cane sugar cola later in the year.
