Why Diet Pepsi's Recipe Change Makes No Sense

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Food, health ,science, hysteria, whatever . . . it's a good read on the changes going on in our food products and the reasons therefore.

I guess worries about the food supply are still less insane than the growing craziness and conspiracy theories in Texas related to the Jade Helm exercises. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/29/jade-helm-15-a-military-simulation-draws-scrutiny-and-wild-speculation-in-texas/ http://www.infowars.com/feds-preparing-to-invade-texas/

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Interesting read. I'm personally in favor of anything that gets the American population at large to wake up and start thinking. And I believe that we rely way too much on artificial sweeteners to help with our so-called "health."

Is aspartame any better or worse than sucralose? Perhaps not. Perhaps they're both completely benign from a physiological standpoint. 

But I think they're both--and equally--quite dangerous in a less direct way: they help people to cultivate an extreme sweet tolerance. The people I know who drink lots of diet soda also happen to be some of the heaviest people I know! Clearly this is just a small sample set, and it's not the diet soda's fault directly, but I would be very surprised if there wasn't a provable causal relationship there.

Anyway, that's just speculation on my part. When it comes to Food Babe-style reasoning I'm guilty when it comes to artificial sweeteners. After growing up in the '80s reading about all of the rat cancer studies done with the sweeteners of that era, I avoid them like the plague. (Even though I'm fully aware that most of those studies were complete BS -- feeding rats 10x their own weight in sweetener, for example. But somehow it stuck with me.)

Controlled servings of real sugar FTW!

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It really makes no difference to me what sweetener they use because I am not going to drink the stuff. Being diabetic, regular sod is off the list for me and, though I have tried various artificially sweetened ones, none tastes anything less than nasty. We seem to have a national compulsion to drink fizz water. Believe me, once you give it up, it is delightful to enjoy the savings.

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All they are going to do is launch the product, people will hate it, and then they will return to the old formula to boost sales. New Coke all over again. Its about marketing not about health.

-- Signed eternal cynic.

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A lot of people don't like the taste of aspartame and prefer splenda... it's not better or worse, it just tastes different.

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I don't know why anyone drinks soda anyways. I can understand the young and naive. Yet, I see plenty of people of all ages continue to guzzle down soda and other unhealthy drinks. Even when I was young say about twelve years old I didn't drink as much as my peers. 

 I'm trying to draw upon my past experiences to remember a time when I drunk soda. I know I've been tired and just needed a quick buzz of sugar. Also, when I've been thirsty. Still you only need a few sips to quench your thirst or a buzz. Not the Big Gulps I've seen people buy and drink. 

 Its funny how I still have the same basic personality when I was little as now. Was somewhat of a food purist then and still am. Btw, my nutrition professor thought Splenda was awesome. This was when Splenda first came out.

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Aspartame has reached its threshold for negative vibe among medicated-minivan-moms, so it has to go. I suspect the reason for the shift is purely economic. Gram for gram Sucralose is far sweeter than Aspartame and Pepsi can improve the gross margins of diet products by using it.

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That article is mostly just an opinionated rant against anyone who doesn't want to ingest artificial sweeteners, excessive gluten, foods containing GMOs, or high fructose corn syrup. Go ahead, consume all you want. But the diatribe is what makes no sense, not the Diet Pepsi recipe change.

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