I wish Pepsi would make the Aspertame free version widely available for those of us who dislike or cannot ingest Aspartame. Found diet rite orange today it has aspartame in it. I used to purchase it from my local Walmart but eventually, they pulled it due to the new product line. And the phosphoric acid that’s present in many cans has been shown to leach calcium from our bones. They were one of the first to start using Stevia as an alternative sweetener, even before it was approved by the government. It has no caffeine, no sodium and no aspertame!! Coke zero does have aspartame Reply. JUST 2 doses of poison a day? Your right Pete Reply.
Pepsi is getting rid of aspartame, the artificial sweetener and sugar substitute that has been an ingredient in Diet Pepsi for decades. Today the company announced that the change will come later this year. Aspartame will be removed from every Diet Pepsi brand, including the regular product, its caffeine-free alternative, and Diet Pepsi Cherry. And while there’s nothing natural about those ingredients either, they don’t carry the same health controversies and unknowns that’ve dogged aspartame also known as NutraSweet for years. It’s one of the most throughly tested ingredients in the world, but assurances from the FDA and the agency’s international counterparts that aspartame is safe for human consumption have done little to shine up its reputation. Can it cause cancer? Does it actually contribute to people gaining weight — the opposite purpose of diet cola? Can you taste it? Pepsi seems tired of these questions, and the company is going so far as to highlight that its diet sodas will no longer include aspartame. Bottles and cans will be labeled “now aspartame free. Cybersecurity Mobile Policy Privacy Scooters. Phones Laptops Headphones Cameras.
PepsiCo Inc. Pepsi will now sell both the aspartame- and sucralose-sweetened versions of Diet Pepsi. Diet soda sales have tumbled as consumers, turned off by studies on artificial sweeteners, have switched to bottled water, teas and energy drinks, instead. Widely reported studies have shown a correlation between cancer and aspartame consumption in rats — but not in humans. And in the four decades since Perrier water was launched in the U. The Food and Drug Administration has ruled that artificial sweeteners are safe, and sucralose, which was accidentally discovered by U. Aspartame is made from two amino acids, while sucralose is a modified form of sugar with added chlorine. Read: Drinking diet soda linked to heart disease. Diet Pepsi will still contain another FDA-approved artificial sweetener — acesulfame-potassium, or ace-K — which some researchers have said needs further testing and research. It has about half the calories of a regular Coke, and uses both cane sugar and the natural plant sweetener Stevia, a sugar substitute that has been growing in popularity in recent years. To highlight the natural ingredient, Coca-Cola Life will also have a green label instead of the traditional red.