Donald Trump is in love with Coca-Cola. In January he smiled from ear to ear in a photo with the CEO of the company, who gave him a special cola bottle that commemorate his inauguration. A few days later Trump officially returned to the Oval Office as president, his desk Was already set up As it had been in his first term: with a button to call up a bottle of Cola Light. Between sips of the carbonated drink (at one point, he Reportedly Drinks up to 12 cans a day), the president apparently worked the company behind the scenes. Yesterday he announced about Truth Social that Coke agreed to make his characteristic soft drink with “real cane sugar” instead of high-fructose corn syrup. “I would like to thank everything in authority at Coca-Cola,” he wrote.
Until now, little else has been known about the assumed deal. I asked Coke for more information, but I didn’t hear back. The company even has to confirm that it has agreed to everything at all. (“More details about new innovative offers within our range of Coca-Cola range will be shared soon,” said a company spokesperson for the company The New York Times Earlier today.) Although the move seems random, it follows a pattern of Trump trying to score easy political points – especially in a time when his base is in war with himself about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The clearest argument for cane sugar about corn syrup is taste. “You will see it. It’s just better!” Trump said about truth social. Cola is made with cane sugar in Mexico and many other countries, and “Mexican Cola” has long had a cult in the United States. Trump can also do the “Make America Remory Rety” movement a solid one. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has focused on high-fructose corn syrup as an important contribution to diabetes and obesity. “Thanks, @potus!” Kennedy wrote on x after the announcement.
The taste argument is fair enough. But when Trump thinks that the health of Americans is at stake in a switch from high-fructose corn syrup to cane sugar, he trusts a very confused reasoning. Like many Maha priorities, the change on paper is better than in practice. Kennedy can resist high-fructose corn syrup, but he has also called sugar ‘poison’. He is right to be wary of both, because sugar and high-fructose corn syrup are generally the same. Multiple independent meta-analyzes have discovered that there is little difference between the two when it comes to health and health such as weight, blood pressure and cholesterol. The two products “have almost identical metabolic effects,” said Dariush Mozaffarian, the director of the Food is Medicine Institute of Tuft University. Trump essentially claims that he had Coke agree to change sugar … for sugar.
If Trump wanted to use Cola as a lever to improve the health of the Americans, he would have to concentrate on the fact that few people drink the things. Soft drink is a scourge in the world of public health. The consumption of sugar -sweet drinks is connected to increased body weight, diabetes and heart disease. These drinks are the largest source of added sugar in the American diet. In recent months, the Trump administration has tried to temper the insatiable soft drink habit of the United States in recent months. At the insistence of RFK Jr. And other top officials, six states – Aarkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska and Utah – have experimented with bans about the purchase of soda with the help of Snap -Renetoons.
But sometimes RFK seemed Jr. lose the plot on sugar. It is one of the biggest problems with the American diet, but it is not the primary focus of Kennedy as a health secretary. He has spent more time and effort trying to limit synthetic dyes. In recent months, Kennedy has put pressure on food companies to voluntarily remove such dyes from their products – a movement that, such as Trump’s alleged deal with cola, for grabbing the headlines. Food giants such as Kraft Heinz, General Mills and Nestlé have all agreed to abolish artificial dyes from their products. But lucky charms made with dyes for natural food and still loaded with sugar is hardly a victory for American health.
It is a tumultuous time to be a food company; The Maha army can suddenly enter your product after an ingredient that people agreed earlier was safe. (Yesterday, after the announcement of Trump, Cola defended On X the safety of high-fructose corn syrup.) In accordance with removing a controversial ingredient is a way to get into the good grace of the administration and a good business movement can be-even if your food is still largely unhealthy.
Food companies even started to discover that they don’t have to sell really healthy food to be approved maha; They only have to remove the few ingredients that are Kennedy objects. No company embodies this strategy as a steak ‘n shake. The civilian chain has become a Maha Darling: Steak ‘n Shake announced earlier this year that it would start frying fries in beef instead of in seed oil. To celebrate the change, Kennedy had a meal at a steak ‘n shake for a photo with Sean Hannity that was broadcast on Fox News. (He thanked the restaurant for “Rfk-in the fries. “) What didn’t record this moment was that you can still order a double cheeseburger at Steak ‘n Shake with 1,120 milligrams of sodium-the recommended daily quantity for adults. Was it finished with a vanillemilkshake and you just bought 92 grams of sugar? Today with your beef” in a few weeks? to sell bottles. “
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