Pepsi Next: The Worst of 2 Drinks, Combined into One

 They didn’t say they removed all of it, just 60% of it. And HFCS is still the first ingredient after water, doesn’t that tell you something extra

You are a tool.

The lowest grade on Fooducate is D. No Fs here.

They have ABSOLUTELY been shown to be dangerous. Many artificial sweeteners are banned in many countries because of links to cancer and obesity. Get your facts straight before posting.

No, this is absolute nonsense. Pepsi contracted with a firm to produce various artificial flavors for their snack products. Some of the compounds were created use stem cells.  But see 
http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/pepsi.asp
for a complete rebuttal.

There is simply no scientific evidence that aspartame is a “deadly chemical.”

replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar isn’t much better. Most sodas with cane sugar taste SWEETER. Still very high in sugar. If you want to reduce sugar content in soda, and save yourself money in the long run, make your own soda. Plus, there’s “Zevia” out there, which is a soda made with stevia, an all-natural sweetener, and all natural ingredients.

Most of these claims are simply myths. There are no such studies. HFCS is a mixture of 2 pure compounds and it really does not matter where they are obtained: they are still pure compounds. The mercury myth was disproves years ago: it was based on some sloppy undergraduate work and the amount of mercury found is the same as would be found naturally. I refuted most of these claims in this article: http://exm.nr/iVlZDe and here http://exm.nr/rXnXen

from a wiki but you can check the facts in the links:
The methanol produced by the metabolism of aspartame is absorbed and quickly converted into formaldehyde and then completely converted to formic acid, which, due to its long half life, is considered the primary mechanism of toxicity in methanol poisoning.
The methanol from aspartame is unlikely to be a safety concern for
several reasons. The amount of methanol in aspartame is less than that
found in fruit juices and citrus fruits, and there are other dietary
sources for methanol such as fermented
beverages. Therefore, the amount of methanol produced from aspartame is
likely to be less than that from natural sources. With regards to
formaldehyde, it is rapidly converted in the body, and the amounts of
formaldehyde from the metabolism of aspartame is trivial when compared
to the amounts produced routinely by the human body and from other foods
and drugs. At the highest expected human doses of consumption of
aspartame, there is no increased blood levels of methanol or formic
acid, and ingesting aspartame at the 90th percentile of intake would produce 25 times less methanol than would be considered toxic.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17828671
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12180494

Lets face it, Aspartame tastes foul.  I think a cola made with 60% less sugar would be pretty popular… hopefully with a nice tasty sugar like cane-sugar.

Ya, James, exactly what I thought, and 7 years ago in my county in the bay area, calfiornia, they switched from chlorine water treatment to chloramine , because it’s cheaper! Chlorine + Ammonia , hence Chloramine! I did not know this when I moved to the county, I started drinking the tap water, had coughs, fatigue, and respiratory allergies, then a Citiizen’s group educated me, I switched to filtered water, and was fine! Brita filters do not remove chloramines, only expensive water filters installed in house. An independent study by a USA university partnering with a Japanese org found chloramine linked to pet and human digestive issues, cancers, allergies, etc. Pure, running, clean spring water from a safe water source is best, fresh, live with minerals from rocks, next best is filtered water. Here’s to prayers to cleanse all Mother Earth’s oceans!