Sugar remains popular despite MAHA

Nearly two years after the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement influenced federal policy and food manufacturing, sugar industry leaders say consumer demand remains resilient despite aggressive anti-sugar rhetoric. At the International Sweetener Symposium in Vail, executives cited surveys showing most MAHA supporters accept sugar, while warning that inflammatory messaging and proposed policies, labeling, school meal reform, and federal purchasing limits could affect consumption and production.