Who knew that they are putting aspartame into full fat Pepsi now?

[Sep200024]

All cans of full sugar Pepsi now have less than half the sugar content. The rest has been replaced with aspartame.

The cans look exactly the same, and you won’t know the difference unless you read the ingredients listing.

You could also tell the difference by looking at the traffic light system on the side of cans. Old cans will have 40% RDA sugar. The new cans now have 17% RDA sugar.

Unbelievable that they have made a change like this without doing anything to draw attention to it, or to let consumers know.

How many people with allergies or medical issues relating to aspartame will buy Pepsi without realising??

Sit on it for a bit, then flog it on eBay, you’ll make a fortune.

San Pellegrino was also ruined when they replaced some of its sugar with sweeteners. It has a chemical aftertaste now.

Have a single bottle of Coke in the fridge for a month, had no desire to drink it, utter crap. Tea or water for me!

San Pellegrino have at least started making classic again without Stevia. They also do Essenza which has no sugar and no AS which is nice

Just hate this

45 years old bmi 21ish zero fillings and live my fizzy pop occasionally but I can't abide sweeteners at all so rarely bother.

Thank you. I didn’t know this and you’ve saved me from becoming ill.

I buy Pepsi cans in crates from Farm Foods. They last some time so not bought any for a while. Coke it is then.
wonder if draft Pepsi in pubs will be affected? Might as well just go out and drink myself into a stupor because I can’t have any of the soft drinks they serve ffs.

Ok have checked ingredients and it’s not aspartame by the looks of it. This stuff still tastes vile though.

Carbonated Water, Sugar, Colour (E150d), Acid (Phosphoric Acid), Flavourings (including Caffeine), Sweeteners (Acesulfame K, Sucralose)

Really?! 😲

New vs old ingredients

New ingredients
Carbonated Water, Sugar, Colour (E150d), Acid (Phosphoric Acid), Flavourings (including Caffeine), Sweeteners (Acesulfame K, Sucralose)

Old Ingredients
Carbonated Water, Sugar, Colour (Caramel E150d), Acid (Phosphoric Acid), Flavourings (including Caffeine)

I'm worried the other way - that sugar will be replaced with this stuff
thanks for the heads up OP.

@otherwayup i'm with you on being wound up - have no idea why it is referred to as full fat

It's not a recent thing it's been a couple of years.

I use a soda stream machine. None of the syrups have it in

It really hasn’t.
I have a crate of old recipe and two bottles. Even the 24 pack cans still show as old recipe on Tesco whereas bottles and 8 packs show new.

there is even an article about the change here dated this week!

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about_us/news/pepsi-drink-be-sold-supermarkets-57-less-sugar-pepsico-confirms

It must have changed twice then because it definitely has had sweetners since the sugar tax. Only coke was just sugar.

Regular Pepsi has always had the ingredients posted above. No sweetners. They’ve dabbled with other varieties over the years, most notably in 2015 with Diet Pepsi causing sales to tank worldwide, but regular pepsi recipe has never contained artificial sweetener in the UK.

There are various plastic taxes starting to come into play actually.

I'm a Diet Coke addict, so no issue with aspartame, but I used to love the San Pel soft drinks, so fresh tasting and thirst quenching, I've stopped buying them now as they just taste awful since the sweeteners were added. I don't understand the sugar tax thing, San Pel is at the dearer end anyway, so no one is going to worry about few extra pence.

I only buy the fizzy drinks that have sugar but none of the other 'sweeteners' in them.
To be fair I probably only drink fizzy drinks a couple of times a year, but it's sugar only or none at all.

It is ridiculous that I can go into a shop & buy as many 2kg bag of sugar as I want, but bars of chocolate seem to be shrinking on a monthly basis & fizzy drinks are made of chemicals instead of real ingredients because apparently the govt think they know best about what the public should put in their bodies.

someone always get in a tizzy over this.

Good point. The environment is going to be the end of us a long time before a bit of sugar.

That was the actual point of the joke, but it’s so old now it’s common usage.

Since they brought the sugar tax in so many drinks I used to enjoy are now ruined for me. Ribena, Lucozade, Irn-Bru, Fevertree full sugar cola, San Pellegrino and now Pepsi and Fentimans cherry cola which were the only soft drinks I was still buying. I’ve also taken to buying imported strawberry Fanta when I can find it.

Luckily I don’t feel unwell with artificial sweeteners but I just really hate the taste to the point that I simply don’t enjoy drinking the stuff anymore. My family laugh at me because they can’t taste the difference but I know the instant they’ve changed the formula without having to look it up as it just suddenly tastes disgusting (and when I look it up sure enough the recipe has been recently changed). It’s so frustrating. I knew they’d changed Pepsi as I had one earlier today and thought something was wrong with it.

The stupid thing is that even though I could do with having less sugar in my diet and losing weight, I find that when I cut out soft drinks, I suddenly start craving chocolate, biscuits, cake etc that I normally don’t fancy at all, so it’s not like it even helps. I maybe wouldn’t resent the whole thing quite so much if I suddenly found the weight dropping off me as I have to drop new soft drink after new soft drink due to their horrible taste. But I just end up eating crap I don’t even really like instead.

@Kyliealwayshadthebestdisco you’re the same as me. Apparently there’s a genetic component: Warning, really basic link.

I once (20+ years ago) ordered a Coke in a bar and they gave me Diet Coke (it was in a glass so not immediately obvious). I sent it back and the guy acted like I was making a big fuss over nothing. I now realise that he simply couldn’t taste the difference and figured no one else could either! (OK I’m still bitter 😂)