We already told you about Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback — now there’s Pepsi Natural.
BusinessWeek says Pepsi Natural “contains all-natural ingredients, including light sparkling water, natural sugar, natural caramel and kola nut extract.”
This sounds an awful lot like Pepsi “Raw” which has been available in the UK for awhile now.
Reuters says that Pepsi Natural “be will be sold in glass bottles in the premium or natural food aisles of stores in 10 markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle.”
Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback will be sold nationwide for two months starting on April 20.
Pepsi introduces drinks with natural sugar [Reuters]
Pepsi to roll out products with natural sugar [BusinessWeek]
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And we wonder why Mexico and other countries use REAL sugar, not HFCS? Many of our food products cannot be sold in other countries because we use franken-foods like HFCS and GMO corn and soy. Good old US industry making a profit at the cost of safety!
There are so many falsehoods and half-truths in those three sentences I don’t know where to begin. Other countries use sucrose because it is more readily available than HFCS. The process is simpler to produce sucrose, but it is in no way cleaner than HFCS.
Food products that contain corn as an ingredient are typically made from food-grade corn that are not GMOs. As far as safety, non-GMO corn is actually at a higher risk of carrying mycotoxins from fungi that make the recent peanut salmonella problems look like a hangnail. Food products made from corn by-products (HFCS, corn starch, etc.) likely use corn by-products made from GMOs. However, the production of said corn by-products involves a level of processing and purification to the point that immeasurable, miniscule amounts of genetic material (natural and introduced) or the proteins associated with the inserts actually make it into the final product.
My cynical view is that Pepsi will sell HFCS-free soda at a HUGE markup hoping to make big profits, while people are clamoring for it. This desire will fade because it’s so overpriced, and then they can go back to standard HFCS soda. Pepsi can then say, “well, we tried to give Americans a HFCS-free alternative, and the people wouldn’t buy it”.
I hope I’m wrong.
@Snarkysnake:
Red Rock Golden Ginger Ale is…DELICIOUS. I love watching the expression on people’s faces when they take the first sip.
Sounds expensive. Kolas are endangered and – as we all know – the males only have two nuts to give.
I’ll try it if I see it.
HFCS makes me terribly sick. Having more non-HFCS options is great! Even if it does cost a bit more… Make it in cans Pepsi!