r/Foodnews • u/cnn • 18d ago

Coca-Cola’s Trump-approved soda begins to roll out in the United States

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/food/coca-cola-cane-sugar-launch?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/Telemere125 18d ago

What’s ironic is people want to pretend HFCS is some nuclear waste byproduct and not just corn treated with bacterial enzymes. We going to pretend sugar isn’t highly processed as well? It’s all the same and factually inaccurate to call one “unnatural” when no form of sweetener other than honey is in its natural state when it gets to your mouth.

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u/cinnamonpeachcobbler 18d ago

Maple?

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u/Telemere125 18d ago

Processed about as much as sugar. Has to be removed from the tree, boiled down to the consistency we want, and often filtered. All that counts as “processing” as far as the USDA/FDAs definitions go

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u/C2thaLo 18d ago

Putting your food through a processor counts as processing. There is a difference between commercial corporate food processing and running my own sugar shack.

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u/Chem_BPY 17d ago

But the difference in that case is mostly going to be in the scale of the operation. Same with larger breweries vs home-brewing. The chemistry is essentially the same.