MAHA Victory: Coca-Cola Makes Good On Trump Promise, Drops First Product Made With Cane Sugar

The Coca-Cola Company announced it will launch a new product made with cane sugar this fall.

The announcement came during the company’s second-quarter earnings report released Tuesday.

“As part of its ongoing innovation agenda, this fall in the United States, the company plans to launch an offering made with U.S. cane sugar to expand its Trademark Coca-Cola product range,” the report said. “This addition is designed to complement the company’s strong core portfolio and offer more choices across occasions and preferences.”

The announcement comes after President Donald Trump said he spoke with the company and convinced it to use cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup, The Daily Wire previously reported.

“I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so. I’d like to thank all of those in authority at Coca-Cola. This will be a very good move by them — You’ll see. It’s just better!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Based on the earnings report’s announcement, it appears the company will still use high-fructose corn syrup while launching a separate product made with cane sugar. The company already uses cane sugar to make Mexican Coke, which is sold in glass bottles and imported to the United States.

Still, the move marks another win for the Make American Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been an outspoken critic of high-fructose corn syrup, calling it “poison.”

Kennedy stated that high-fructose corn syrup is “just a formula for making you obese and diabetic,” Kennedy said, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Some studies have shown a link between high-fructose corn syrup and the obesity epidemic, although dietitians and health experts have debated the sweetener’s impact on health. Coca-Cola has used corn syrup, which is a cheaper sweetener than cane sugar, since the mid-1980s.

Kennedy celebrated Saturday, when fast-food chain Steak ‘n Shake announced it would offer Coca-Cola made with cane sugar.

“MAHA is winning,” Kennedy said on social media.

MAHA is winning. https://t.co/P8DYz7O5pi

— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) July 19, 2025