Do you support RFK removing high fructose corn syrup from coke?

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lightbulb27 · Accepted Answer

I don't care, freedom of choice. I don't buy the crap.

This is gonna be a mess. What do we do with all that corn syrup produced? China isn't gonna buy it... they aren't THAT stupid. Feed it to cows and fish.. it will kill them?

It's much better to turn into expensive overly sweetened sweet water and feed it to humans. That ensures some of the population is really sick, which feeds the medical establishment. Killing them off early helps with population control.

So keep drinking it by the gallons and see what happens...

hahahmm · Accepted Answer

Yeah, I cut almost all of that crap out of my died. There's 1-2 products that you can't seem to get without it but I try to avoid them as much as possible.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

I drink Diet Coke, so not an issue for me.

Investigator · Answer

Yes. We should eliminate corn subsidizes, so that it disappears from our diets generally. Americans are the most obese people on Earth, because we allowed cheap substitutes to pollute the food supply. But we also made "things that taste good and have basically no caloric value" a staple of the American diet, as opposed to "things of balanced metabolic performance". It's about calories in and calories out.

The fact that high fructose corn syrup requires enzymes be added to the corn, in order to convert corn starch into glucose and fructose, and the fact that the conversion process intrinsically alters the percentages of glucose vs fructose present—depending on the amount of enzymes introduced—means that there is no fixed ratio of syrup sugar content like there is in regular table sugar. All the consumer knows is that there is HFCS in the food, not how much glucose to fructose. Since the body can process one but not the other, that is a problem.

What do we do with all of the HFCS already in the supply? We consume it, as usual, but we make the public aware of the fact that it has been discontinued—not just temporarily unavailable, permanently removed. So, all of the HFCS currently available is all there will ever be. Maybe some of it should preserved, for historical, “this is what our diets used to ‘taste like’ purposes”, but otherwise it should be utterly deprecated.

Anonymous · Answer

Neutral The fact is, a lot of beverages have high fructose corn syrup so why not do all of them? If not then it begs the question, why do this at all?  Pasteurization helps eliminate bacteria which prevents disease from finding its way into the drinks of the American public, yet Robert F Kennedy Jr. is against it full stop so clearly he isn’t a health nut more than an actual nut. If you don’t like High Fructose Corn Syrup then why the crap are you even willfully buying this stuff and celebrating it IF you support this decision…. Clearly it doesn’t matter unless it speaks to you politically when to the average American this doesn’t matter at all. If it was MTG or Andrew Cuomo pushing this I wouldn’t care, same reason I don’t care about RFK Jr. pushing this because it is a dumb thing to even give an opinion on. The GOVT could do more good positive work for the ‘Average Joe’, this is nothing.

WindAtMyBack · Answer

I doubt if he has the authority to do that. But yea, I would favor removing it. I would favor removing the drinks themselves. Sugar water should not be sold alongside legitimate food. How does that poison even get FDA approval?

We have one branch of government supposedly to keep our food supply healthy. Then a different branch of government, subsidizing farmers to grow crap that we shouldn't be eating.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

If he really wants to improve American food quality, he has his work cut out for him. When I suggested a few things years ago, I was told that European countries were „nanny states“ and that Americans were able to make „informed decisions“. So much for that.

Miristheiss · Answer

I am ok with high fructose not being in ANYTHING. Every single study says that stuff is poison to humans. It shouldn't be allowed to be in our food.

Red_Arrow · Answer

HFCS is popular because it has a longer shelf life. But studies have shown it is not much different in how it affects the body from sugar. Both contribute to problems in the body, especially type 2 diabetes. And HFCS is found in many products abundantly, like canned soups. To be healthier one should remove a lot of sugar and fructose from their diets.

AviatorTom · Answer

The government should not get involved in what legitimate companies put in the products, unless there is a definitive harm. High fructose corn syrup is not, in itself, harmful. and there is conflicting scientific evidence about its harm when taken in huge quantities.

exitseven · Answer

Yes, I saw Coke imported from Mexico in the store. I wondered why anyone would buy /coke made in Mexico especially since you can't drink the water there. I was told they make it with cane sugar and it tastes better.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

I couldn't give a fuck WHAT happens to Coke!! I refuse to drink anything they make!! They put some kind of shit in their drinks that REALLY fucks up my stomach!! Besides, mechanics use that shit to clean off their car engines!! WHY would I wanna drink THAT shit?

Massageman · Answer

It's already out of the Coke made in Mexico. HFCS just is not the best way sweeten things - cheap? yes. Best for your health? not really. Many times my dad would just have a glass of water and add a couple drops of lemon.

DrPepper12 · Answer

Ag policy in USA is a perverse corrupt cesspool of preventable health problems. Just about any policies that help USA health have my support cuz people are asshats and NEED a nanny state to disincentivize dumassery or corporate manipulation sometimes. Put down the "let's tax the shit out of it" Twinkie and go walk to your SUBSIDIZED gym fatty.

Bricealan · Answer

@coachtanthony I said 'yes' but don't know if that is what make the caloric value so high - 250 calories per can?

NathanDavis · Answer

absolutely, yes... bring back the real sugarcane

sage2021 · Answer

I'm just afraid of what they will replace it with 🤷🏼‍♀️

shortster · Answer

No, if Coke-a-Cola wants to make soda with high fructose corn syrup they can. I think pure cane sugar is a better sweetener; but they are both food items. Now if they wanted to add arsenic in trace amounts I think that the government should step in and stop that.

007kingifrit · Answer

im not sure yet. generally i want to ban things that are universally unhealthy but snacks are supposed to be unhealthy. the problem is you consumers should be responsible in consuming it.

we should ban products that are dangerous even in small doses. but a coke isn't gana kill you on its own. your lack of self control will.

mobiusforniner · Answer

But not Pepsi? Guess Pepsi folks are gonna die.

molonski2 · Answer

100% , these drinks are the new tobacco , and people just will not self regulate , all this stuff needs to be cleaned up , at least to make it remotely consumable.

QuietRunner · Answer

With sugar it may taste better, but there is no real difference in the chemical make up.

Regular sugar is 50% glucose/50% Fructose

High fructose corn syrup is either 42% or 55% fructose.

The real problem is consuming too many calories in a day

Syntosi · Answer

Purely on the basis that it would piss off capitalists and the far right, yes. Also the sugar version of coke is more tasty anyways so its a win-win.

Fireguy17 · Answer

it was better with real sugar in it, but I switched to diet coke a while back.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes , high fructose corn syrup is terrible for the body

bolverk · Answer

In the UK high fructose corn syrup is not allowed to be used in soft drinks only actual sugar is allowed.

Jamie05rhs · Answer

I support him removing coke from the White House, at the very least.

Wiredone · Answer

Coke tastes fine just the way it is, leave it alone

Drumlin2001 · Answer

Shouldn't tinker with a classic recipe. They make enough diet versions, tweak them.

Joshydavid25 · Answer

Yeah, it'll be a decent step towards getting Americans to stop being fat and unhealthy..

Staximus · Answer

Anyone who drinks Coca-Cola on a regular basis is a victim of their own stupidity but I support it. Mexican sodas still have real sugar

NYCQuestions1976 · Answer

Yes. High fructose corn syrup should just be called "liquid diabetes".

Friendlybro79 · Answer

I don’t support his vaccine stances but I do agree with this.

noohair · Answer

It will change the taste. That is why Coke went to “New Coke” then back to Classic coke. There is a noticeable change in taste…

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, HFCS is horribly unhealthy, but it is allowed because the legal system permits it. That needs to change.

Twalli · Answer

If it tastes the same and there isn't something more damaging replacing it, no problem.

mrkdvsn · Answer

OF COURSE RFK should remove HFCS from all food & drink... as well as all mRNA mandates

lilBigPotato · Answer

Probably one of the few good ideas he has

beefcakebradybatson · Answer

CLB ("Crazy Little Bobby") probably SNORTS coke !!!

MadhuriDixit · Answer

I trust him.

NicholasRedone · Answer

No I like my corn 🌽

ReesesThins2 · Answer

Absolutely.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Better not change the taste otherwise I'm fine.

nicknasty · Answer

I do love me some syrup of the corns

Roldrake · Answer

He on drugs.

seeyounexttuesday · Answer

of course.

jimmy2 · Answer

Yes for sure

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