{"id":273,"date":"2025-07-18T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dexalumpotrik.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:18:18","slug":"coke-sweetener-switch-threatens-us-jobs-corn-refiners-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dexalumpotrik.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/coke-sweetener-switch-threatens-us-jobs-corn-refiners-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Coke sweetener switch threatens US jobs, corn refiners say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u2019s claim that Coca-Cola is <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5405347-trump-coca-cola-real-cane-sugar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">switching to cane sugar<\/a> has left a bitter taste for corn syrup lobbyists, who warn that the recipe shake-up will threaten the income of thousands of American farmers.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/corn.org\/cra-comment-potential-reformulations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Corn Refiners Association<\/a>, which represents high-fructose corn syrup producers, said the change threatens thousands of jobs and risks devastating primarily Midwest American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/immigration\/border-coverage\/bankruptcy-farmers-inflation-ice-raids\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/immigration\/border-coverage\/bankruptcy-farmers-inflation-ice-raids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">farms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are about 10,000 people working in corn refining. One-third of the corn refined goes for making high-fructose corn syrup,\u201d said John Bode, president and CEO of the Corn Refiners Association. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we eliminate high-fructose corn syrup use, that\u2019s going to have a very substantial effect on at least a third of the production, probably significantly more of the corn refining industry,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So that\u2019s thousands of jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite Trump&#8217;s announcement Wednesday, Coca-Cola has yet to confirm the change.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement has reignited a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/business\/mexican-coke-trump-sugar-costly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decades-long food fight<\/a> between the two sweeteners, with share prices for some major corn syrup companies experiencing dramatic drops Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/sites\/ama-assn.org\/files\/corp\/media-browser\/public\/about-ama\/councils\/Council%20Reports\/council-on-science-public-health\/a08-csaph-high-fructose-syrup.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Medical Association<\/a>, there are no known nutritional differences between high-fructose corn syrup and cane sugar, but neither should be consumed in large quantities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u2019s claim that Coca-Cola is switching to cane sugar has left a bitter taste for corn syrup lobbyists, who warn that the recipe shake-up will threaten the income of thousands of American farmers. The Corn Refiners Association, which represents high-fructose corn syrup producers, said the change threatens thousands of jobs and risks devastating primarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dexalumpotrik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dexalumpotrik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dexalumpotrik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dexalumpotrik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dexalumpotrik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dexalumpotrik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/dexalumpotrik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dexalumpotrik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dexalumpotrik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dexalumpotrik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dexalumpotrik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}