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Coca-Cola is adding a new drink made with cane sugar after a push from Trump. How does cane sugar compare to high-fructose ...
Coca-Cola is bringing a cane sugar-sweetened drink to the U.S. market as an alternative to its signature offering ...
Very little of South Dakota’s corn is used to produce sweetened beverages, but the crop’s boosters in the state say a ...
Food manufacturers use high-fructose corn syrup in a wide range of products, such as pop, juice, candy, cereal and pastries. “High-fructose corn syrup isn’t necessarily worse for us than table sugar, ...
High-fructose corn syrup is used in a large number of processed and packaged foods. Because it is cheaper to make and more shelf-stable than regular sugar, it is popular in food manufacturing ...
On July 16, U.S. President Donald Trump said Coca-Cola had agreed to swap corn syrup for cane sugar in American Coke. Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images ...
According to price data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the wholesale price of HFCS-55, the type of corn syrup most commonly used in beverages, averaged 49.4 cents per pound last year.
U.S. President Donald Trump says Coca-Cola has agreed to use real cane sugar in its flagship soft drink in the U.S. at his suggestion – though the company hasn't confirmed such a move. Any switch from ...
President Trump recently suggested Coca-Cola should swap out high-fructose corn syrup for cane sugar. Experts say that the two are really not that different, and have similar health impacts.
Unlike sugarcane, a tropical plant, corn is native to the Americas . It’s plentiful in North America, where corn syrup is cheaper than sugar.
According to price data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the wholesale price of HFCS-55, the type of corn syrup most commonly used in beverages, averaged 49.4 cents per pound last year.