In a competitive marketplace drink makers are trying to keep customers happy and are now ditching high fructose corn syrup.
Snapple is doing it and so is Pepsi and Mountain Dew, too.
High fructose corn syrup is getting tossed by beverage makers, who instead are opting for plain sugar. It’s a reversal of a trend that goes back to the 1980s and not a moment too soon for some customers.
High fructose corn syrup, which is found in everything from bread, cereal, and soda to processed and packaged foods, is being removed after years of taking a beating for links to obesity and disease.
“We find it almost everywhere. It’s omnipresent in the food supply,” Dr. Carla Wolper told CBS News.
Wolper, an obesity expert, said the real problem is that food manufacturers across the board have been tucking high fructose corn syrup into their products for decades because it is a cheaper sweetener than sugar, making it harder for Americans to consume it in moderation.
“It’s also in breads and sauces and other products that would have had a small amount of sugar added,” Wolper said.
Snapple, which has long touted itself as “made from the best stuff on earth,” is going to plain sugar for sweetness. It’ll cut about 40 calories from some drinks and give it what they call a “fuller bodied taste.”
And Pepsi and Mountain Dew sodas are going 1970s style with sugar as well for a limited time starting in April. PepsiCo said it wants consumers to have a taste of the original formula.
Health experts agree: to keep tabs on the amount of sugar and high fructose corn syrup you consume, read the labels.
The price of these new products will remain the same.
(Source: WCBSTV)
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This is disappointing substituting Sugar for Sugar. Snapple is really no different from any other Bottle ing Company, all they are doing is adding healthier ingredients to lure customers to their bottle.
all pepsi is doing is selling kosher for pesach soda starting april. thats why their starting april. in israel both coke and pepsi use sugar all year round. american coke and pepsi are much better than israeli stuff because we use corn syrup. starting april, pepsi will not be as good as it is with corn syrup because for some reason not known to me corn syrup gives soda a much better flavor than sugar. its going to taste pesachdig which aint so good. anyway, coke is way better than pepsi and even more so starting april.
Maybe now my mom will not call me fat if I drink this stuff!
This means more kosher for Passover products.
Now, we won’t feel any different on Pesach when we drink these soft drinks.
Now all the loser kvetchers who complain about HFCS could complain about regular sugar.
If you want to cut down on the sugar, simply buy on of the new non-HFCS drinks, and dilute it with water to 50%/50% or something like that, and save the other half (also 50%/50%, of course) for next time.
By doing that, you will have just cut the cost in half and cut the amount of sugar you’re ingesting in your drink by half, as well.
Good – you found an interesting story in the goyish media – so tell us what does this for kashruth? WIll it increase the number of companies making drinks that are kosher for pesach? Will Coke change (since apparently many
Coke-lovers prefer the ones with sugar, and compete with us for the Pesachdik ones, or import them illegally from Mexico)?
Time to start oiling (Almond, or Linseed from Flax) the Fruit and Vegetable Juicer for use after Pesach. So instead of Snapple I can drink Apple.
flatbush27,
You are making very erroneous statements. The HFCS is NOT the only chometz ingredient in soda! I hope your statement will not cause people to CHV eat chometz on Pesach.
Devarim Ha’omdim Birumo Shel Olam.
Thank G-D. Just in time. New reasearch has uncivered the fact that HFCS contains traces of the deadly poison mercury, because of the caustic soda that is used processing this witche’s brew.
HFCS is, perhaps, the single ingredient most responsible for the epidemic of obesity in our community.
Hey, Kosher manufacturers–especially soda companies and cake companies–get rid of this garbage, fast!
One of the REAL problems with HFCS is the fact that it often contains mercury. TOXIC!
google HFCS + mercury
HFCS, is suspected to have a terrible effect on the body. This is a good move. Just watch the intake of real sugar.
Boooo! If you are afraid of getting fat from HFCS, drink DIET instead! Gasp! Like sugar is any better for obesity. And if the diet soda is only half as good, just drink a second one.
But who buys Pepsi, anyway. Not me – I don’t want to give any more money to Arabs and people like Al Sharpton than necessary.
But I’m sure I know one guy who will be happy. A goyisher senior citizen in my neighborhood (yes, where I live there are goyim) is always found in the local supermarket clearing the shelves of Kosher L’Pesach soda whenever it is restocked. I once asked him why and he said he doesn’t like the taste since they switched from sugar to HFCS. So I guess his tefillos worked.
Squeak, Diet sodas have health warnings on them, while regular sugar-based drinks do not; people should know what they are ingesting before drinking “diet” or any drinks.
Do you know what chemicals are in that diet drink that you are so sure makes them better than sugar? Do you know their chemical composition? Their effect on adults? On children? On a fetus in utero?
Please be informed, not ignorant, especially when advising others online to just drink 2 “diet” drinks instead of 1 sugar-based drink.
…AND LET’S NOT FORGET THAT UBIQUITOUS KETCHUP BOTTLE
THEY ALL CONTAIN HFCS.
People are so influenced by the advertisement industry to be fooled that Snapple or any other junk drinks stating “natural ingredients” are healthy. Sugar and HFCS are both “natural”. Corn allergy is also becoming more rampant.
Wake Up! The healthiest way to hydrate is water (make sure it is clean)
Now with the economic difficulties embrace water it is cheaper too and it will save you $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ on your grocery bill and on your health.
eyeopener- You are right water is the best choice only if you have a water purifier and are drinking the purified water. City water tastes awful and (imho) is not too healthy.
Hakatan – I have three words for you – tongue-in-cheek.
It’s like the old joke where the guy goes into the local makolet and says he’s on a diet, what can he buy for dinner, and the proprietor says here, get these microwavable diet dinners in a box. But get two, because they’re small.
Anyway, I’m all for warning diet conscious consumers about how “dieting” should really be about cutting back instead of having as much as you want of something else labelled “diet”. My point was that they should keep their hands OFF of other products, so that the rest of us can enjoy them. Why should I not be able to drink coke, just because a bunch of fat americans can’t handle the fact that HFCS is maybe more fattening than sugar?
The supposed link between corn syrup and mercury is nonsense.
1. This was one study, published in an online “journal” that accepts any paper if the authors are willing to pay.
2. The study itself acknowledged that the sample size (20) was way too small to support any definite conclusions.
3. The results were ambiguous – 11 out of 20 samples showed no detectable mercury.
4. The amount of mercury in the other 9 samples was way too low to be of any concern at all.
Ingested mercury is almost NEVER something to worry about. Elemental mercury is very difficult to absorb through the skin or the digestive tract; almost all mercury ingested will be excreted intact. The only form in which elemental mercury is dangerous is as a vapour that is inhaled and absorbed by the lining of the lungs. There is only one case (Miamata Bay) in recorded history of people being harmed by ingested mercury, and in that case the dosage was incredibly high; it would be impossible to drink enough soda to get that much mercury, even at the highest level found by this study.
As for “Hakatan”: What health warnings are you talking about? The only warning on diet drinks is for phenylketanurics; if you are not one, then you have nothing to worry about.