Pepsi Co. going back to sugar in Pepsi & Mt. Dew

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
I got a glass bottle of A&W Rootbeer with sugar a week ago. The best thing ever!

in central texas you can find Dr. Pepper made with sugar and it is huge taste difference. for me was like watching B&W tv then watching color TV for the first time.

 

[njdevilsfan87]

Going to have to try these.... heard of them but never gave much thought. I have up soda over a year ago because drinking soda always made me feel as if I was poisoning myself. Hopefully these go down (and taste) better.

 

[lokiju]

Finally found some at Target tonight and had a Pepsi Throwback.

My wife and I both agreed that it has more of a "bite" to it like Coke does and both like Coke more as it is so this was a plus for us.

It does have a nice after taste and not as much (but still some) coating feeling of the tongue/mouth.

All in all if they made this a full time product I'd be likely to buy this over Coke just because of it having sugar in it.

 

[Tiamat]

I actually prefer the taste of the HFCS version 😱

 

[Dear Summer]

I could not find one to save my life

I went to CVS, Safeway, numerous local grocery chains 🙁

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Firsttime
Frig I love Pepsi. I hope this tastes good. I would much prefer drinking sugar instead of HFCS.

Coke was waaay better before they reformulated. So was RC Draft Cola until they discontinued it in the mid-late 1990's.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
God has given us his drink in the most purest of forms :.

It's called water and wine.

 

[coloumb]

Maybe this is why?

http://www.colbertnation.com/t...n-s-coke-party-protest

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
Looking at the pepsi site they list the differences other than taste as :

Calories, fat, sodium, total carbs, sugars

Mountain Dew 170 0 65 46 46
Mountain Dew Throwback 170 0 50 44 44
Pepsi 150 0 30 41 41
Pepsi Throwback 150 0 40 40 40

Looks like plain sugar has slightly less carbs and sugars.


Notice in sodium though in MT dew sugar has less sodium, but in pepsi it has more.
I'm guessing sodium was changed for taste difference.

lol

if you read any of the thread, you'd see I already mentioned the difference. 😛

Sugar is sugar is sugar. All sugar, no matter whether its a natural disaccharide (table sugar) or combined monosaccharides (glucose and fructose in HFCS), contain the same caloric content.

But more importantly, Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback aren't just the modern formulas with natural sugar instead of HFCS. Rather, they are actually Throwback formulas, older formulas that had at the time actually used natural sugar. Or at least it seems that way.

Both the Throwbacks taste a far lot different than modern formulas. Simply switching that doesn't change the flavor. Mountain Dew Throwback doesn't list Orange Juice as an ingredient, while the modern formula does list that.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: Firsttime
Frig I love Pepsi. I hope this tastes good. I would much prefer drinking sugar instead of HFCS.

Coke was waaay better before they reformulated. So was RC Draft Cola until they discontinued it in the mid-late 1990's.

I love Coke. And have never at all enjoyed drinking Pepsi.
Until I tried the Pepsi Throwback. Older Pepsi formulas must have tasted far more similar to Coke than it does today, because I can actually tolerate, and kind of like, the taste of Pepsi Throwback. But I despise Pepsi, it takes terrible whereas Coke I'll down in refreshing enjoyment.

I don't know why Pepsi changed the formula to further themselves from the Coke taste. Has worked with some people who apparently are looking for something different, but I want my Coke and only Coke. I won't touch Pepsi any time I have a choice, and if Pepsi is the only thing offered, I'll choose Mountain Dew instead if its all Pepsi products.

 

[Fingolfin269]

I haven't had sugar in my soft drinks since I was a kid. This stuff is great. 🙂