SO tired of these corporations pumping in all these chemicals into our drink and foods, now all of the sudden there is this need to change the food and drink industry because of a smarter consumer, my question is why from the beginning of time did pepsi and other companies pump their drinks with aspartame? ITs all about their bottom line and nothing else, they don't give a fuck about the consumer, all they care about are profits and since the consumer has smartened up a bit and knows that the man made sweetener is filled with chemicals and side effects they opted to replace it with another artificial sweetener hoping they can revive their falling weak soda sales.... All they are doing is placing one artificial sweetener for another, lets see how dumb the consumer is now.... http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/10/diet-pepsi-ditches-aspartame-will-customers-return.html Diet Pepsi ditches aspartame, will customers return? 21 Hours AgoThe Associated Press 131 SHARES 9 COMMENTSJoin the Discussion Candice Choi | AP Bottles of Diet Pepsi with, left, and without aspartame, center and right, sit in a case at a store in New York, August 8, 2015. A revamped Diet Pepsi without aspartame is popping up on store shelves. So will people start flocking back to the soda? PepsiCo says its new Diet Pepsi should be available nationally this week. In response to customer feedback, the company said earlier this year that it would replace the aspartame in the drink with another artificial sweetener that has less baggage. (Tweet This) The rollout will test the theory that the sweetener is to blame for fleeing customers, or if other issues might be at play. Other diet sodas that still have aspartame include Diet Coke, Diet Dr Pepper and Fanta Zero. Read More'Mom and Pop' diners dying off as chains expand Sales of traditional diet sodas have been falling. Industry executives blaming the freefall on unfounded concerns people have about aspartame. Two years ago, Coca-Cola even tested ads in select newspapers defending the safety of the sweetener. "It's the No. 1 thing that our customers have been calling about," said Seth Kaufman, a senior vice president at PepsiCo. At least in the short term, Diet Pepsi sales are likely to see bump from the marketing push around the new formula, which will include in-store sampling and discounting in coming weeks. In terms of taste, Kaufman said it's not identical but that the drink should still be familiar to fans of Diet Pepsi. It's not the first attempt by PepsiCo Inc. to lift flagging sales of Diet Pepsi. In 2012, the company tried improving the drink by combining aspartame with acesulfame potassium, often called ace-K, another artificial sweetener that helps prevent the taste from degrading over time. The latest version of Diet Pepsi will also have ace-K in addition to sucralose, best known by the brand name Splenda. Cans and bottles of the new Diet Pepsi have been making their way through the distribution in recent weeks. Stores that don't do a lot of business may still have the old versions stocked. This weekend, for instance, a store in New York City had the old and new versions side by side. The new cans will be marked with the words "Now Aspartame Free" above the Pepsi circle logo.
exactly right, progress at its finest...like I said lets see how dumb the consumer can possibly be this time around..... Im sure in a few years after sales continue to slide they will eventually try their hand with organic sweeteners....check out all those sugar drinks like capri sun, sunny D, powerade, gatorade etc etc etc, all filled with sweeteners, some have red 40 and blue 6 and yellow 5, even ingredients you need a dictionary or scientist at hand to give you an understanding why its even in the drink to begin with..... Probably in the next 5 years or so they will even try to switch up their ingredients for the more healthy conscience consumer....
I'm not a fan of artificial sweeteners by any means, but here is what appears to be a balanced view: http://blogs.mcgill.ca/oss/tag/artificial-sweeteners/ Not much downside, but not much upside either as it turns out.
I'll drink a little soda just for the flavor occasionally. People that drink it all the time are unthinkless. The story of how aspartame got it's FDA approval is something else. The FDA recognized it was awful stuff but they got overridden by Dick Cheney... it was once tested as a pesticide! I like the European model where a chemical is presumed bad until proven otherwise over the US model where politicians can poison us for some reason, guess I'm quirky like that. I'd like to see a meta study of "sickieness" vs all the junk food... I'm quite healthy at 71yo, I drink water with lemon in it, take a few key supplements, follow the advice of a Naturopathic Doctor with a real Md, eat meat, eggs, raw nuts and seeds soaked overnight, yogurt with pomegranate extract, veggies, bananas, fresh ground organic coffee with whipping cream [no homogenization] sweetened with stevia extract... I like to put neutropics and Kratom in the coffee but hey, I'm from the '60's. I know a lot of seniors, they eat junk food and talk about their cancer treatments pretty much. They are all such sickies really, I tell them about healthy ideas but I've found that they are truly not interested! They might be hypnotized by saturation advertising or something.