I watched this segment and started to laugh that with all this AI craze and hype especially, at davos the last week that the only thing coca cola used AI for was to create some new flavors and make a Christmas card! Hilarious.... Wow. More Generativev AI hype because without Generativec AI being talked about within your company headlines you won't boost your stock price!!! 2:40 minutes in
Luckily I don't drink water with HFCS, water with synthetic sugar/flavor, water with artificial sugar,/flavor. I used to drink a few cans everyday. Definitely Coca cola and many other Sugary drink companies businesses are doing very well because the demand for it is extremely extremely strong.
For reference: HFCS is virtually the same as table sugar dissolved in water once it hits our stomachs. In other words food and drink companies could substitute table sugar syrup for HFCS. The health affect on humans of these two sweeteners is virtually identical. The reason HFCS is used instead of table sugar is cost! Sucrose equivalent delivered in the form of HFCS is less expensive than when it is delivered as sucrose. (Recall that Sucrose breaks down into 1 molecule of glucose and one of fructose in our stomachs.) The use of HFCS in the U.S. vs. table sugar is a by-product of how U.S. political campaigns are funded and yet another of endless examples of how federal politicians are in bed with corporate America --- is this an example of fascism at work? Sucrose production in the U.S. from beets or cane (the sugar produced is identical) is protected by tariffs. (Our Senators don't want cheap pinko, commie, Cuban, cane sugar coming into the country.) And if you're a corn farmer in the U.S., write Senator Grassley a thank-you-note, because even though producing alcohol from corn makes no sense energetically, it makes a lot of sense if you're a tractor dealer or a corn farmer in Iowa. (What does make sense energetically, however, is alcohol from cane.) Thank you Senator Grassley, you big handsome, 91-year-old hunk, for allowing we consumers to subsidize the good farmers of Iowa and help protect them from bloody communists. It's a marriage made in heaven: corn farmers are protected, sugar producers are protected, and soft drink producers are protected from the artificially high costs of table sugar. Even our politicians benefit. America,"What a Country!". (On a more serious note, we Americans consume entirely too much sugar. This bad habit of ours is wrecking our health.)