There are so many food products and recipes that add sugar that isn’t needed.

Coca-Cola is going to offer a cane sugar version of its signature beverage, rather than one sweetened with corn syrup. Major segments of the food industry, including General Mills and Heinz, have ...

Coca-Cola’s decision to offer its flagship drink with cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup is as much about trade policy as it is about health policy.

Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette Cargill operates a corn syrup plant along Otis Road SE near downtown Cedar Rapids.   Buy Photo ...

President Donald Trump teased the announcement last week, but the Coca-Cola Co. confirmed it Tuesday: a cane sugar-sweetened version of the beverage maker’s trademark soda will be released in the U.S.

The debate over cane sugar vs. corn syrup is heating up, raising questions about cost, policy, and, in some cases, soda taxes.

In April, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. cautioned that “Sugar is poison.” This month, he cheered ...

Current trade barriers make the prices of natural sweeteners artificially high in favor of ultra-processed subsidized ...