Posted on 04/24/2015 12:06:24 PM PDT by Red Badger
NEW YORK (AP) PepsiCo says it's dropping aspartame from Diet Pepsi in response to customer feedback and replacing it with sucralose, another artificial sweetener commonly known as Splenda.
The decision to swap sweeteners comes as Americans keep turning away from popular diet sodas. Competitor Coca-Cola said this week that sales volume for Diet Coke, which also uses aspartame, fell 5 percent in North America in the first three months of the year.
Executives at Coke and Pepsi blame the declines on perceptions that aspartame isn't safe. That's even though the Food and Drug Administration says aspartame, best known by the brand names Equal and NutraSweet, is "one of the most exhaustively studied substances in the human food supply, with more than 100 studies supporting its safety."
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BRING BACK CYCLAMATES! EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD USES IT!................
The history of apartame’s FDA approval is a sordid one. Won’t bother posting it here because it slays some sacred cows.
Typical American health hysteria.
Back in the 60’s and very early 70’s, diet drinks used cyclamates as a sweetener, then it was banned.
Diet drinks actually tasted good then...................was used in Pre-Sweetened Kool-aid!.............No sugar needed!..............
All I know is that Aspartame gives one the sharts. Maybe we’ve been mispronouncing the name.
as if Splenda or Stevia wouldn’t be as bad
Some of those are natural laxatives as well, maybe that is Stevia, I forget.
Used to drink tons of soda! until my acupuncturist showed me some stuff..Zevia, Hansens pretty good.
Or just plain old water!
Sucralose mixed with maltodextrin or dextrose...... (both made from corn) as bulking agents is sold internationally by McNeil Nutritionals under the Splenda brand name. In the United States and Canada,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose
who knew?
fructose is ..also made from corn
I only drink diet soda.
Can’t stand the taste of sugary sodas.
Until I was 8 I wouldn’t drink sodas. Then one day my Mom was drinking something out of a pink can.
Sohhhh, I drank the whole thing.
She called me to attention and insisted I come have a conversation with her.
When she asked if I had drank what was in her pink can I replied I had.
She laughed really hard, telling her friend “My kids won’t drink regular soda but, they like TAB? Guess I’ll have to hide it from now on”.
Tab is bad.
Fresca is worse.....................
>>as if Splenda or Stevia wouldnt be as bad
They won’t be as bad...until the capitalists start widespread use of them, and spend the money to convert from aspartame.
Then, the Youtube videos from “concerned” groups (backed by Soros will begin, followed by low-budget expose “documentaries”, and then the bumper stickers will begin to show up on Subarus.
Pepsi also recently got rid of its 24 ounce bottles, which lasted all day. Now they only sell 16 ounces (in packs) at a higher cost per ounce of course.
Companies should stop listening to Liberals who are never going to buy their product anyhow.
all the soda’s seem to have cans and 20 oz here
Luv em.
In fact, I’m drinking a Shasta Lemon right now.
Best part is you can pick up 4 cans at the dollar store...
Coke and Pepsi want around $2 buck for a one serving plastic bottle...
Sugar bad
Cyclamate called bad.
Saccharin tastes terrible and called bad.
Sorbitol causes guts to hurt and diarrhea so it’s bad.
Aspartame tastes good so now it’s bad.
Sucralose tastes good and I hope is still OK.
I use Splenda all the time. Tastes like sugar to me, far better than cyclamates, IMHO.
There is a version of Diet Coke with Splenda that is already available.
And there is Vitamin Water ZERO..sweetened with Truvia, which is stevia and erythritol (made by Coke, who has a partnership with Cargill to make Truvia)
I don’t even use Splenda. It doesn’t biodegrade and is causing some behavioral issues with marine animals, not to mention what it could be doing to people.
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