PepsiCo [Frito-Lay] to Remove Artificial Ingredients from All Products by End of Year to Align with RFK Jr’s Crackdown

SLAY ^ | 4/28/25 | Frank Bergman

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PepsiCo Inc. has become the first major food company to announce that it will remove artificial ingredients from its products to align with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s crackdown.

PepsiCo’s chairman and CEO, Ramon Laguarta, announced the change in a conference call.

Laguarta said the company will remove artificial ingredients and has already begun doing so.

“We’ve been leading the transformation of the industry now for a long time on sodium reduction, sugar reduction, and better fats,” Laguarta said.

“Sixty percent-plus of our (portfolio) today doesn’t have any artificial colors,” he said — and the company is “undergoing that transition.”

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Chester Cheetah getting healthier. Good news. It’s mostly still garbage but this will help MAHA.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

High fructose corn syrup is artificial.

[HYPOCRACY]

How noble of them.

[proxy_user]

OK, they have removed all artificial ingredients....and there’s nothing left!

[Its All Over Except ...]

Question is:

Will they (and others) say it will now cost more to not put those ingredients in so they will have to raise prices?

[ComputerGuy]

Gotta have my Fritos.

[redfreedom]

Great news. I would be much better if Big Pharma could be cleaned up, for they are much more deadly than artificial ingredients in snacks.

[No name given]

Good.

[No name given]

Very.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

All products??? Diet Pepsi is going to turn into water.

[ansel12]

People who claim to be Christians, or moral, need to bring some of that to work, in whatever field they work in.

[LeoTDB69]

“OK, they have removed all artificial ingredients....and there’s nothing left!”

You’d still have bottled wated LOL

[CivilWarBrewing]

MSG (Monosodium Glutamate) should be BANNED from ALL foods. That stuff can really mess up one's sleep and probably other brain issues as well.

Any chips such as flaming hot Cheetos or Doritos contain MSG along with many other dry snacks. AVOID !!!

[TalBlack]

So ah polishing off a big bag of Fritos is going to be healthy? Cool.

[Billthedrill]

Wonder what color Cheetos are going to turn out to be? The one they are now is not from this Earth...

[logi_cal869]

BS. More theater.

Wake me if frito lay returns to corn oil in corn chips and bans the use of so-called ‘seed oils’ (Prediction: It won’t happen and it won’t be called for by rfk jr).

We need less distraction from real issues, such as atoning for covid era policies and holding those people accountable.

[frank ballenger]

In Florida they sell little plastic balls of the Florida snowman with only coal and carrot on the bottom of liquid.

Sort of the snacks and foods that will be sold if all the RFK Jr. restrictions eliminate ingredients.

People used to joke regular Coke first without sugar, then without caffeine would someday go too far and be a bottle of water with coloring. Now the coloring will be gone.

[Jamestown1630]

Less than 1% of the population have been found to be allergic to MSG. That’s less than the number allergic to peanuts.

[Jamestown1630]

Corn oil IS a ‘seed oil’.

[Kleon]

Less than 1% of the population have been found to be allergic to MSG. That’s less than the number allergic to peanuts.

People act like it's literal poison, but it's just sodium added to glutamic acid, which is naturally found in a lot of foods, such as tomatoes and cheese.