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Coca-Cola is switching to cane sugar from high fructose corn syrup. Why change in the first place?
NBC Newsยท2025-07-23 00:09

Coca-Cola is releasing a US version of its soda with cane sugar. But why did the company change to high fructose corn syrup in the first place. [Music] >> In the late '7s, US soda companies found that their standard sweetener, which is cane sugar, was getting expensive.Labor costs kept domestic sugar prices high, and new tariffs in the early 80s on cheaper to produce international sugar, meant importing was expensive, too. But then they found a new cheaper sweetener option that was being subsidized by the U ...