
Coke’s shift to cane sugar would be expensive, hurt US farmers
By Marcelo Teixeira, Karl Plume and Renee Hickman NEW YORK (Reuters) -A possible move by Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) , and other beverage and food industries, to use cane sugar instead of corn syrup as a sweetener would be difficult and expensive to implement, while mostly negative for farmers in the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Coca-Cola had agreed to use cane sugar i ...