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Pepsi Scolded For Continued Use Of Controversial Caramel Coloring Considered...
(So Cal Metro)A couple years back, the state of California declared that a caramel coloring agent, 4-methylimidazole (or 4-MEI), was a carcinogen and said that any beverages containing certain levels...
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PepsiCo Thinks Its Drinks Aren’t Smelly Enough, Wants To Add Scent Capsules
Have you ever cracked open a bottle of Tropicana orange juice and thought to yourself, “I would drink so much more of this juice if it smelled even more orange-y”? Probably not, but the folks at...
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The Thought Of Dorito-Covered Hot Wings Convinces Buffalo Wild Wings To...
(photos: Morton Fox and Danny Ngan)Restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings is ditching Coca-Cola as its soft drink supplier and switching to Pepsi. But what’s most fascinating about this change is how the...
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FDA Gives OK To New Coca-Cola-Backed Sweetener That Claims To Taste More Like...
Because we all want sweet things but don’t want to accept that eating too many sweet things can make us fat, the world’s largest producer of stevia says it has gotten the go-ahead from the Food and...
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Pepsi Decides To Discontinue “Natural” Gatorade Because, Come On, Really?
Fresh from the Gatorade vine. Back when I was growing up on my grandparents’ farm out on the prairie, whenever I was exhausted from a long day of playing professional sports I simply went to the...
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Tests Show High Level Of Possible Carcinogen In Pepsi One
(Paxton Holley) As recently as last summer,Pepsi was called out (by the Center for Environmental Health) for continuing to use a controversial caramel coloring — one that can contain a possible...
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Diet Sodas Better For Weight Loss Than Water, Concludes Study Paid For By...
(Christy Kilgore-Hadley) There’s a widely held belief among fitness and health experts that people who truly want to lose weight and keep it off should replace diet sodas and other artificially...
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We Have Seen The Future, And It Serves Strawberry Dr Pepper
Last year, we brought you news that Pepsi finally had its answer to the Coke Freestyle super-fountain, and it was called the Pepsi Touch Tower. Over a year later, these machines finally made their way...
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Pepsi To Start Selling Naturally Sweetened Soda — But Only On Amazon
Latching onto a double dose consumer trends, Pepsi will start selling naturally sweetened sodas, free of the artificial kind many people are eschewing these days, but the only way to buy the drinks is...
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Pepsi Introduces A “Craft” Soda Made With Cane Sugar
Crafty.PepsiCo is hopping on the ye olde bandwagon and going back to the days when soda was sweetened with sugar, and free of artificial sweeteners or high-fructose corn syrup. Dubbing its new craft...
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Florida SodaStream Users May Soon Be Able To Create DIY Pepsi At Home
(Matte)People who own SodaStream machines may soon be able to see whether or not the in-home beverage-maker can truly replicate a big-name household brand. PepsiCo announced today that it will be doing...
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Shrinking Soda Cans Mean Fewer Calories For You, More Profits For Beverage...
(Eric Verspoor) If you’ve taken a trip down the soda (pop, Coke, soft drink) aisle at your local supermarket in the last year you’ve probably noticed an increase of miniature cans being shilled by...
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Pepsi’s Stevia-Sweetened Soda Will Hit Real-Life Stores In 3 Cities
Back in October, we told you about Pepsi’s plans to follow Coke into the mid-calorie, partly-stevia-sweetened soft drink market. Pepsi Life first went on sale in 7.5-ounce mini-cans in October,...
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The Impossible Quest For A Low-Calorie Soda That Tastes Good, Seems Natural
(JY O’Reilly)Teams of scientists all over the world are working to harness compounds from a South American plant to solve one of the greatest challenges of the modern world. No, they’re not working to...
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Americans Losing Taste For Artificial Sweeteners, Pepsi Retakes #2 Sales Spot
(frankieleon)Recently released data about the beverage industry tells us some interesting things. Plain old high fructose corn syrup-laden Coke is the top-selling soda in the United States, but its...
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Diet Pepsi Switches From Aspartame To Sucralose
(JY O’Reilly)As consumers slowly lose interest in diet beverages and in sodas overall, PepsiCo is out to follow changes in consumers’ sweetener tastes. One change is that people just aren’t into...
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Pepsi Considering A Line Of “Craft” Fountain Sodas Made With Sugar
[ silent (e) ]In the race to create sweet, carbonated beverages people actually want to drink, PepsiCo is looking into peddling a line of “craft” fountain sodas made with sugar, instead of the high...
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For Better Or Worse, Crystal Pepsi May Be Coming Back
(Paxton Holley) Back in 1992-93, my senior year of high school, every supermarket and convenience store in the Orlando area seemed packed to the gills with Crystal Pepsi. But almost as quickly as the...
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Diet Pepsi Sweetened With Aspartame May Be Sold Online
(Julia Zucker)Earlier this year, PepsiCo announced that Diet Pepsi, long sweetened with aspartame (some of us still call it by the brand name NutraSweet), would be switching over to sucralose (which...
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You Can Now Make Your Own Pepsi At Home With A SodaStream
(JeepersMedia)SodaStream recently said it’d be focusing more on sparkling waters than on competing with traditional sodas, but it seems now that even if it did want to beat Big Soda, it’d rather just...
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