Posted on 06/11/2025 11:34:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
If you're anything like me, you saw this headline and immediately your heart dropped.
19,000 cases, 12 and 24 packs, of Dr Pepper completely down the drain! Oh! The humanity! Also, it's apparently dangerous to drink.
On May 23, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Dr Pepper issued a voluntary recall on 19,203 12-pack and 24-pack cases of 12-ounce cans of Dr Pepper Zero Sugar.
Oh, thank goodness! It's just the Zero Sugar version of Dr Pepper and not the truly good stuff. Crisis averted. Unless you drink it, of course, then the crisis is just beginning.
Then, on Thursday, the FDA's recall was upgraded to Class II, which the organization describes as a 'situation in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote.'
So, now I've gotta know - and so do you - what is the serious and dangerous defect in these Dr Pepper Zero Sugars? What is this poison that was sent out by mistake?
Although the cans, produced by Jacksonville, Florida-based Pepsi Beverages Company, were labeled 'zero sugar,' they were found to contain the full amount of sugar that is in a regular can, which is around 39 grams.
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If a person with diabetes eats too much sugar, it can lead to hyperglycemia, which is a condition where blood sugar levels become dangerously high, resulting in symptoms such as increased thirst and blurred vision.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, if hyperglycemia is left untreated, it can develop into diabetes-related ketoacidosis (DKA), which can be fatal.
WHAT?
I have now returned to my original state of despair! 19,000 cases of Dr Pepper -THE GOOD STUFF - down the drain because of a packaging error!
The recalled cans have the product code XXXXRS05165 with a 'best by' date of February 16, 2026. The soda was only distributed to retailers in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina ...
Customers who have purchased the affected Dr Pepper cans are urged to return the product to where they were purchased in exchange for a full refund or to throw them away.
NO! DO NOT DO THAT! SEND THEM TO ME!
My address is: [Redacted by a Not the Bee editor with good sense]
I’ll have to try that.
I really like the Diet Pepsi Mini cans...It seems the carbonation is higher in them...
“”””The recalled cans have the product code XXXXRS05165 with a ‘best by’ date of February 16, 2026. “”””
Diet soda with a ‘best by’ date 8 months into the future? That doesn’t match up with what I thought the shelf life of diet soda is.
The real stuff is the Green Label Dr Pepper.
Unfortunately in my area it disappeared two years ago.
The bottler decided that just placing two six packs of Green DP on shelves resolves the decades old law suite.
They probably do. A 12 oz can of carbonated beverage will lose more of its carbonated fizz as you get towards the end than the 7.5 oz mini cans..........
I too loathe diet soft drinks, yet every once in a while I want a Fresca. Just one, and then I’m good for months, even years. It’s odd, but that’s how it seems.
If the sugar not enough jolt for you do Mountain Dew the caffeine will give you a jolt of the shakes.
And if you are not diabetic you can just drink them or give them to someone who is not.
What's the chemical formula for fructose?
What's the chemical formula for "real sugar" (glucose)?
It’s like me and tea.. after being in Japan for so long, drinking unsweetened tea, I don’t add sugar to my tea anymore.
(Texas ice tea = adding some tea to the sugar.. so big difference, and glad it’s been decades since I drank any.)
SLAP A NEW STICKY LABEL ON THEM & GIVE THEM TO THE MILITARY WHO ARE WORKING THE RIOTS.
STUPID TO DESTROY.
CANNOT ANYONE TODAY THINK OUTSIDE THE LINES???
Hand me either Hosmer Mountain, Avery’s, or Foxon Park sodas. Great tasting soda.
Tab
Oh, I grew up on Sweet Tea throughout the Summers of my youth; and wouldn’t want to give it up.
But that’s a different issue...
About ten years ago, I gave up all sodas (regular or diet) for sparkling water. Best decision I ever made.
Tab was horrible; but it was the only sugar-free soda you could get when it first came out.
Depends on where it’s made....
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