'It's just better ' Trump says Coca-Cola to change key US ingredient(www.bbc.com)
12 pointsby djkivi3 days ago6 comments
  • legitster3 days ago
    The irony is that a significant proportion of the sugar in "old" Coke in the US was not actually cane sugar, but from sugar beets.

    But the obsession over types of sugar is largely ephemeral. All sugars are highly processed and refined and equally bad. HFCS's only crime is it's cheapness and ubiquity.

    Funnily enough, for interesting chemistry reasons, it doesn't matter which type of sugar you put in, it all breaks down into glucose and fructose anyway! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY66qpMFOYo

    • johng3 days ago
      I can assure you, it tastes different... or at least Mexican Cokes in glass bottles do. Go find you one and drink it. It's substantially different and better. It's sooooo good.
      • garbagecoder3 days ago
        Or even just get the passover ones in plastic bottles here in the US when they're in season. It tastes different. Whether you care or like it better or worse, it tastes different.

        According to the WSJ this is because "Food scientists have noted subtle differences between the sweeteners: High-fructose corn syrup’s sweetness intensity tends to peak earlier, enhancing fruit and spice flavors, while sugar’s profile is broader and lingers."

      • legitster3 days ago
        As the video covers, there is way more sodium in the Mexican coke, so it's likely the recipe is also different in other ways.
    • gsf_emergency_23 days ago
      I swear by pure glucose. Twice the dosage half the damage. Add fiber if insensitive
  • discoutdynamite3 days ago
    Finally. HFCS is a nightmare, I hope this is the beginning of the end. Farmers wind up growing trash GMO monocrops for ethanol subsidies and syrup money, depleting the soil and sterilizing the land. HFCS is a direct cause of diabetes, it has a different breakdown path than other sweeteners, it spikes blood sugar. HFCS is so "sweet" it overstimulates the taste buds and ruins the sense of taste, people get no statisfaction and are trained into gluttony.

    Gonna go make a highball to celebrate, with some of the last Mexican Coke I might ever have to buy....

  • PaulHoule3 days ago
    This will probably improve his approval by a few points.
  • gsf_emergency_23 days ago
    What's the juice on this.. trade deals with LatAm, restarted sugar prod in Puerto Rico, or just pure altruism?
    • legitster3 days ago
      A lot of what fuels his decisions are very particular sense of nostalgia, hence the "Make America Great Again". Old things = good.

      In this case it could also be a shifting away from US farm subsidies - since much of the reason we use corn as a sweetener in the first place is it's subsidization.

    • duxup3 days ago
      I suspect he sees things on twitter and then it devolves into the "I made this" meme.

      https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/079/173/ed2...

      There are lots of indications that he's influenced by what happens across on his social media feed, even to the surprise of his own staff.

    • jauntywundrkind3 days ago
      It's the same reason he's against EVs, against wind, against solar, against power-efficient lighting, against improved shower heads and toilets:

      To claim power. To reject the world and assert oneself. To deny change. To soak attention with negative energy, to hide from the actual things a president should or could be doing that would be at all worthy of their time. To keep people mad and riled up, following after what Ivanka reported in 1990, that he kept Hitler speeches by his bed, admired him (his ability to rile people up & thus be manipulable). The praxis of the dark side is to be ongoingly aggresive, to always bring out the worst in people. This is just another swing at that.

  • Woodi3 days ago
    Part about button is joke, right ? :))

    But "Make Cola not war" is nice.

  • duxup3 days ago
    This Trump needs to get personally involved in everything sit like the Kim Jong stories from North Korea is creepy.

    All us industry bow before your uninvited consultant.