Coke Defends Corn Syrup After Trump’s Stupid Lie

The Guardian reports:

Initially, the drinks giant responded with a neutral statement of appreciation for “President Trump’s enthusiasm” for Coke, and a vague message about “new innovative offerings within our Coca-Cola product range” to come.

On Thursday, however, the soft drinks company released an additional statement making positive claims about high-fructose corn syrup, a product that some blame for soaring US obesity rates and which has become a target of health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s “Make America healthy again” movement.

“The name sounds complex, but high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) – which we use to sweeten some of our beverages – is actually just a sweetener made from corn,” Coca-Cola said in a statement. “It’s safe; it has about the same number of calories per serving as table sugar and is metabolized in a similar way by your body.”

Read the full article. Meanwhile, anyone who shorted corn syrup yesterday did well today.

Shares in Ingredion (INGR), another leading corn syrup supplier, fell more than 5% early Thursday.

Me: Trumps got this stock manipulation down pat 🤥https://t.co/TThuamW8d4

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