Posts about PepsiCo

Health Group Mad At Michael Jordan Ad For Implying Gatorade Cured His Flu
Wait a minute — Michael Jordan can do no wrong! So why is a health group so mad at his new ad for Gatorade? Perhaps because the ad seems to maybe kind of imply that Jordan got over a flu during a basketball game in 1997 because he was swilling Gatorade. Jordan isn't at fault, however. Whew. More »

Pepsi: Mountain Dew Isn't Just For Suburban Teens Playing Video Games, Really!
If Mountain Dew brings up images of your older brothers hunkered down in the basement with said soda and bags of Cool Ranch Doritos, during marathon sessions of Dungeons & Dragons or World of Warcraft, you aren't the only one. Pepsi acknowledges that their "dew message" isn't reaching big cities, and is trying to spread the bright green liquid love to "cooler" places than the suburbs. More »

Dunkin' Donuts Breaks Up With Pepsi To Go Steady With Coke
If your world actually does run on Dunkin', you may notice a bit of a change at your local chain. The company announced Monday that they're switching from offering PepsiCo products to Coca-Cola in all Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin Robbins in the U.S. More »

It's Time To Get Your HFCS-Free Kosher-For-Passover Coke & Pepsi!
The Jewish holiday of Passover is coming up, which means that Coca-Cola and Pepsi put out special versions of their signature beverages that contain regular old sugar and not high fructose corn syrup. More »

Pepsi No Longer "Choice Of A New Generation," But Malt-O-Meal Is
For those of us who came of age glued to a TV in the '80s, we knew that Pepsi was the "choice of new generation," if only because commercial after commercial featuring superstars like Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie told us it was. But that distinction now belongs to the folks behind Malt-O-Meal, who snapped up the trademark after Pepsi let it lapse. More »

Pepsi Thinks You Might Want Just A Few Calories In Your Soda
If full-calorie soda dumps too much sugar into your system and diet drinks just don't have the punch you want, Pepsi wants to woo you with its new 60 calorie-per-can offering, Pepsi Next. It's been years since they've launched a major product, so perhaps the name "Tada!" would've been a fun choice. Just sayin'. More »

The United Arab Emirates Will Not Stand For The Grocery Shrink Ray
When Coke and Pepsi cans sold in the United Arab Emirates were shrink rayed from 355 milliliters (about 12 ounces) to 300 mL (about 10 ounces) while the price remained the same, it wasn't just customers who complained. The government noticed, too, and is removing the offending cans from store shelves. Those wacky foreigners! More »

Pepsi: Mountain Dew Can Dissolve A Mouse
Back in 2009, a man sued PepsiCo, saying he found a dead mouse in a can of Mountain Dew. Pepsi wanted to prove its innocence by suggesting its high-caffeine drink is so extreme that it would have dissolved the mouse carcass, rendering it a "jelly-like substance." More »

Mid-Calorie Pepsi Next To Launch Nationally Next Year
Cola drinkers in Wisconsin and Iowa have apparently given the thumbs up to Pepsi Next, the "mid-calorie" drink being test-marketed in the two states. PepsiCo plans to go national with the 60-calorie soft drink next spring. More »

Big Soda Sues NYC Health Dept. Over Anti-Pop Agenda
While municipalities around the country continue to talk smack about sugary drinks, often while trying to slap a hefty tax on the beverages, the pop industry has been fighting back in the courtroom. More »

Iowa & Wisconsin Cola Drinkers To Be Guinea Pigs In Test Of "Pepsi Next"
Even though the news was leaked back in early April that (Pepsi would be trying out a mid-calorie cola called Pepsi Next), the company has only just now gotten around to confirming the drink's existence, along with the fact that it will begin testing Pepsi Next in Iowa and Wisconsin starting next month. More »

From Spud To Your Taste Buds: How Frito-Lay Chips Are Made
As your finger rustles around in the bottom of the bag for that last, delightful chip, perhaps you would like to learn about where your Frito-Lays snack is coming from, eh? Even if you're not curious, we're about to tell you. More »

Pepsi Machine Wants You To Buy Drinks For Friends And Random Strangers
PepsiCo has rolled out what it deems a "social" vending machine, which allows customers to buy drinks for friends, who receive a redemption code by text and use it to pick up their soda at any other social vending machine. The machine also has a "Random Acts of Refreshment" mode, just in case you really want to give a complete stranger in another city a can of Pepsi. More »

HFCS-Free Kosher Pepsi Now Available For Passover
Passover starts next week, which means that fans of non-HFCS colas can stock up on 2-liters of soda that eschew any sort of corn-based ingredients in favor of sugar. But while we've written about kosher Coke in year's past this is the first year we've noticed that Pepsi is offering a Passover-ready drink. More »

Pepsi To Meet Diet Cola Drinkers Halfway With 60-Calorie Pepsi Next
In the never-ending battle to find a drink that will please both the calorie-conscious and those who crave some sugar in their sodas, Pepsi is once again prepped to go the mid-calorie route with something called Pepsi Next. More »

Pepsi Throwback Becomes Permanent
Pepsi "Throwback," a version made with real sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup, will has been upgraded from "limited time" to "permanent," the sodamaker announced on its Facebook wall. No more driving down to Mexico or waiting for Passover to snatch some up. You can now enjoy the all-natural sugary pick-me-up beverage as an occasional treat and compliment to your favorite nutritious meals and snacks all year-round. More »

Diet Coke Unseats Pepsi As #2 Cola Brand
Pepsi has spent decades throwing stones at Coke from its position in second place among the fizzy beverage brands. And now Pepsi will need to toss those stones even farther as the brand has given up its spot to Diet Coke and slipped to third on the list. More »

Pepsi Outdoes Coke By Planning Bottles Made Entirely Of Plants
More than a year after Coke unveiled bottles made partially from plant products, Pepsi announced it's making containers made solely from vegetation. More »

This Isn't A Water Bottle, It's More Of A Bottle-Shaped Plastic Bag
Sure, we should all use less plastic. But Mike writes that he bought a case of Aquafina that he thinks takes reducing plastic too far. The bottles collapse on themselves, leak, and generally don't do the job for which they're intended.
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American Beverage Association Responds To Call For Ban On Caramel Coloring In Cola
Earlier this week, the Center For Science In The Public Interest petitioned the FDA to ban two forms of caramel coloring, claiming that the ammonia and sulfites used in the creation of the products results in allegedly carcinogenic chemicals making their way into the resulting food and drink. Consumerist reached out to Coca-Cola and Pepsi to get their side of the story, but were instead passed on to the American Beverage Association, which offered its own version of things. More »

CSPI Asks FDA To Ban Caramel Coloring Used In Coke, Pepsi And Other Stuff You Like
Yesterday, the folks at the Center for Science in the Public Interest sent a petition to the Food & Drug Administration, demanding that the "caramel coloring" commonly used in sodas like Coke and Pepsi be banned because they claim it contains a pair of carcinogenic chemicals. More »

Does Diet Pepsi's Skinny Can Send The Wrong Message?
PepsiCo has chosen New York Fashion Week to roll out its new "skinny" Diet Pepsi can, along with a campaign that says the container is a "celebration of beautiful, confident women." That hasn't gone over very well with advocates for people with eating disorders who called the campaign "thoughtless and irresponsible." More »

Dr. Pepper Testing 10-Calorie "Dr. Pepper Ten" In Six Cities
Even though there is already a zero-calorie diet version of Dr. Pepper, the soda company is thinking about releasing a 10-calorie version and is testing it out at stores in a handful of markets around the country. More »

The Colonel Is Kicking Ronald's Ass In The China Fast Food Wars
Though KFC is struggling stateside, in China it is dominating over all other fast food rivals, even global juggernaut McDonald's. In some parts of the country, the image of Colonel Sanders is more ubiquitous than Mao's, reports Bloomberg Markets magazine. That's no mean feat in a country that has proven resistant to foreign penetration. The secret, is in the sauce, using local ingredients in the food as well as its management team, building up partnerships with local suppliers and catering menus to include regional dishes. More »

PepsiCo Inches One Step Closer To Soylent Green With "Snackified" Beverages
Because healthy food just isn't cool enough for today's youth, the folks at PepsiCo will soon be rolling out "snackified," amped-up — to the extreme! — pureed fruit in the form of something called Tropolis. More »

Why Don't The Calories On This Mountain Dew Bottle Add Up?
Eagle-eyed reader Brian was sitting back and enjoying an ice-cold Mountain Dew when he noticed that something seemed funny about the math on the Nutrition Facts label. More »

Man: I Assaulted Mom Because Costco Pepsi Machine Made Me Do It
A 33-year-old Pennsylvania man has been charged with with aggravated assault, simple assault and harassment after allegedly assaulting his 68-year-old mom. The reason: The Pepsi machine at their local Costco made him do it. More »

UK Asks McDonald's, Pepsi, KFC To Help Write Health Policy
In a move that seems as sensible as asking your creepy uncle who just got out of jail to babysit for the weekend, the UK is looking to such luminaries in the health food industry as McDonald's, KFC and Pepsi for assistance in writing government policy on obesity and other health problems. More »

Super Bowl Ad Slots Already Sold Out
If you were hoping to spend millions advertising your business during the Super Bowl (which will certainly be a face-off of the ages between the Dallas Cowboys and the Buffalo Bills), you are out of luck. According to Fox, they've already sold out all the available ad slots for the Feb. 6, 2011 event. More »

Study: Sugary Beverages Have Tenuous Relationship Between Reality And Nutrition Info
Adding fuel to the HFCS vs. sugar fire, a new study claims that not only does the actual amount of sugar in a sweetened beverage vary wildly from what the nutritional information says, but that drinks sweetened with High-Fructose Corn Syrup contain significantly more fructose than had been expected. More »

Pepsi Has The Balls To Say What Coke Won't: HFCS Doesn't Taste Exactly The Same As Sugar
A few weeks back, Coca-Cola informed us that there is no distinguishable difference in taste between Coke made with High-Fructose Corn Syrup and Coke made with cane sugar. But when we asked the people at Pepsi the same question, they had a very different answer. More »

Pepsi Throwback Is Here To Stay... For Now
While Coke swears there is no difference in taste between Coke made with High Fructose Corn Syrup and Coke made with cane sugar, Pepsi continues to give credence to the opposite side of that argument. The beverage company has announced that plans to sell its sugar-sweetened Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback sodas as long as people buy them. More »

Pepsi Giving Away 10 Million Cans Of Sierra Mist Natural This Weekend
For years, Sierra Mist has toiled in the shadow of Sprite. But as we reported last month, PepsiCo is hoping to give the lemon-lime drink a competitive edge by replacing HFCS with real sugar and changing the name to Sierra Mist Natural. In an effort to win people over to their product, PepsiCo plans on giving away at least 10 million cans of the drink to Walmart shoppers this weekend. More »

Sierra Mist Ditching HFCS For Good, 7Up Getting Reformulated
Barring the complete outlawing of fizzy drinks, the Coke vs. Pepsi fight will continue to be the main event in pop pugilism. But what about the albino step-siblings of these cola titans — the lemon-lime drinks? These lesser libations — Sprite, Sierra Mist, 7Up — have seen their ad budgets butchered and their sales sink in recent years. But none of them are willing to go down for the count without at least one last left hook. More »

War Declares War On Pepsi Over Song Used In TV Spot
War's 1975 hit song "Why Can't We Be Friends?" is all about hugging it out and making nice, but don't tell that four of the band's original members, who have filed a suit against Pepsi, alleging the beverage company didn't get proper permission to use the tune in their currently running TV spots for Pepsi Max. More »

Dr. Pepper Temporarily Ditches HFCS To Celebrate 125th Birthday
If you're a real sugar fan and you spot a really old looking can of Dr. Pepper at your grocery store in the next few weeks, you might want to stock up. To celebrate its 125th anniversary, the soda brand is going retro with its can designs — and its sweetener. More »

PepsiCo Buys Its Way Onto Science Blog Network As A Food Nutrition Expert
Update #2: On Thursday morning, July 8th, ScienceBlogs contributor PZ Myers posted that the founder and CEO of Seed Media (which owns the blog network) has announced that the PepsiCo sponsored blog has been removed—although as of this update (10:44 am EST July 8th) it's still online. More »