Recommended Posts

NEW YORK, NY - Diet Pepsi is quietly changing its sweetener ahead of a major rebranding of the soft drink set for next month.

The change comes as PepsiCo Inc. looks to reinvigorate its namesake brands after losing market share to Coca-Cola Co. in recent years.

Cans of Diet Pepsi around the country now list a mix of two artificial sweeteners, a pairing that is commonly found in newer diet sodas. Previously, Diet Pepsi used only aspartame, which is sensitive to heat and breaks down more easily.

Although the switch is only intended to help prevent the taste from degrading over time, companies are often sensitive to public perceptions that they might be tinkering with major brands. PepsiCo executives likely don't want to call any attention to the use of artificial sweeteners in the drink either.

When reached for comment Sunday, PepsiCo spokeswoman Andrea Canabal said that Diet Pepsi using the new sweetener mix started hitting shelves in early December. She said the new mix will be more widely available in the coming weeks.

more

The bad thing, most of these 'soft' drinks are full of chemicals anyways. Whatever happened to the days of real sugar, flavors, and carbonated water? Greed is what happened :/

The bad thing, most of these 'soft' drinks are full of chemicals anyways. Whatever happened to the days of real sugar, flavors, and carbonated water? Greed is what happened :/

More like corn lobbying.

In a lot of other countries coke is made with real sugar. However in North America it's made with high fructose corn syrup because of lobbying.

The bad thing, most of these 'soft' drinks are full of chemicals anyways. Whatever happened to the days of real sugar, flavors, and carbonated water? Greed is what happened :/

Everything on earth and in the universe is made of chemicals, organic food is chock full of chemicals.

OT pepsi max is the best tasting non nutritive sweetened drink ive tried hope they don't mess it up.

  • Like 3

The bad thing, most of these 'soft' drinks are full of chemicals anyways. Whatever happened to the days of real sugar, flavors, and carbonated water? Greed is what happened :/

I hate to break your heart, but those wholesome, wonderful things are "chemicals" too.

  • Like 2

I was a young child in the 80s when I had my first encounter with a carbonated drink, Sprite to be exact. It was absolutely amazing, the unique flavour, the sensation on your tongue. I just loved it. Somewhere along the way, I don't know when and why it happened, but they all started tasting differently. I had no clue that they switched from real sugar to high fructose corn syrup until many years later when someone said it in a AOL chatroom. It was an 'ah ha' moment, I finally knew one of my life's greatest mysteries. Fast forward to Summer, 2012. I went on a vacation to the Mediterranean. Usually on flights I ask to be served some sort of juice or water but on this particular flight back I asked for a Coke. The moment that caramel coloured liquid touched my tongue, my mind was blown. Memories of my childhood started racing through my head. I turned to my significant other and excitedly told her to try some. She looks at me like I'm crazy, 'no i'm fine,' she replies. I say, 'go on, try it, this is the best ****&^*^% Coke I've had in over 20 years', I enthused!! She took a taste and a huge grin appeared across her face. I picked up the can and looked at the ingredients. 'Sugar.'

From the source link:

"In addition to aspartame, cans of Diet Pepsi found in New York, Omaha, Neb., and the Bay Area now list acesulfame potassium as an ingredient. The ingredient is often used in combination with other artificial sweeteners and can be found in a wide range of foods including baked goods, chewing gum and gelatin desserts."

Coca-Cola from Mexico is made with sugar and is available at many food stores and Costco.

The diet sodas I've tasted with acesulfame potassium leave an aftertaste similar to the old saccharine sweetener used years ago, blah.

Wow another ****ty pop drink not worth getting.

So in total the list of ruined drinks is:

all fantas

all sprites

all lilts

all lemonades

all pepsis

sunny delight

all robinsons drinks

... In fact it's easier to list drinks they haven't ruined. The normal coke is the only soft drink I am aware of that doesn't have bloody artificial sweeteners in, they should be banned from production on the whole earth.

... In fact it's easier to list drinks they haven't ruined. The normal coke is the only soft drink I am aware of that doesn't have bloody artificial sweeteners in, they should be banned from production on the whole earth.

Might be easily to drink fruit juice or water.

I was a young child in the 80s when I had my first encounter with a carbonated drink, Sprite to be exact. It was absolutely amazing, the unique flavour, the sensation on your tongue. I just loved it. Somewhere along the way, I don't know when and why it happened, but they all started tasting differently. I had no clue that they switched from real sugar to high fructose corn syrup until many years later when someone said it in a AOL chatroom. It was an 'ah ha' moment, I finally knew one of my life's greatest mysteries. Fast forward to Summer, 2012. I went on a vacation to the Mediterranean. Usually on flights I ask to be served some sort of juice or water but on this particular flight back I asked for a Coke. The moment that caramel coloured liquid touched my tongue, my mind was blown. Memories of my childhood started racing through my head. I turned to my significant other and excitedly told her to try some. She looks at me like I'm crazy, 'no i'm fine,' she replies. I say, 'go on, try it, this is the best ****&^*^% Coke I've had in over 20 years', I enthused!! She took a taste and a huge grin appeared across her face. I picked up the can and looked at the ingredients. 'Sugar.'

This should be made into a TV ad.

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • I'm not unblocking my camera for this crapola. Sorry, Google.
    • Ummmm that is what is it supposed to do. Just turn if off in settings if you do not want it analyzing your open tabs. Chrome does the same thing with Gemini. Sarfari will do the samething after Apple's AI and even more so with the release of their 27 versions that is now powered by Googles LLM/ML models. Understanding why it is doing it and how it can help you vs jumping to some conspiracy theroy is a much better approach. As long as it can be turned off, all is good. Yes the default should be off but the a lot of people would never discover these features.
    • Just another reason (aside from many others) not to use Edge. Firefox 153.0b5 DEx64 has a similar feature added recently in prior builds that I will turn off at some point when I get around to it. It's the new "Something looks suspicious" page that pops up here and there. It cleverly hides itself between web pages that I've actually visited; as a result, you know, of selecting a web page and telling the browser where to go. The interesting thing is that it does not produce these warnings from pages that I, as the only intelligent user of the browser in my system, have ever directed the browser to open! What seems to be happening is that the browser looks at all the goofy ad links on a web page I do actually open and selects one that "looks suspicious" and then creates the "something looks suspicious" web page, which is neatly inserted, as mentioned, between web pages my RB ("real brain") has directed the browser to load in a session. The thing is, I usually look at links I am considering to follow before I ask the browser to load them, and in cases I have noticed where the link does indeed look suspicious, most of the time I will choose to not follow the link at all. Doesn't everyone do this or something similar? I am picky about what I voluntarily load... (I don't like links that start off fine, with a site designaiton that seems normal enough but then is followed by indecipherable alphanumeric strings many, many lines long, etc. I tend to reject those because they look suspicious. They may not be, but I don't care... I'll stay with Firefox, of course, if for no other reason than they usually let you turn off the junk you don't like. And because it isn't Edge... But at some point Microsoft will come to realize that putting your bookmarks on the left side is a Good Thing for a lot of people, just as Microsoft discovered when it had the bright idea of nailing the Windows taskbar to the bottom of the screen, when for decades Microsoft browsers had left that placement up to the user. They have finally reversed the obscenity of that decision. Finally.
    • Google was using the old CATPCHAs data to train their LLMs. What is the say they won't use this camera data of users to train their LLM? these companies need some strict regulations!
  • Recent Achievements

    • One Year In
      BA the Curmudgeon earned a badge
      One Year In
    • Conversation Starter
      rosiecharles earned a badge
      Conversation Starter
    • First Post
      KMilenkoski1202 earned a badge
      First Post
    • First Post
      carols23 earned a badge
      First Post
    • One Month Later
      Tom Willson earned a badge
      One Month Later
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      513
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      259
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      151
    4. 4
      Steven P.
      94
    5. 5
      macoman
      66
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!