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Pepsi and Mountain Dew "Throwback"
High fructose corn syrup is out and natural sugar is IN?
Well, not exactly. The natural sugar switcheroo is only for 8 weeks and it's in a special "throwback" version of the sodas. The limited edition sodas feature a retro look in their packaging and are sweetened with natural sugar (not high fructose corn syrup), just as they were back in the '60s and '70s. I was actually around in those two decades but can't really recall what either tasted like.
Most likely they will still taste darn sweet since their calories per can aren't going to change. Both Throwback sodas will be available nationwide beginning April 20 in 20-oz single-serve bottles and 12-pack cans.
I asked the company if they would consider permanently offering the Throwback sodas (say if millions of anti-high-fructose-corn-syrup soda drinkers made a run on this product) and they replied "there are no current plans to offer them beyond mid-June."
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I asked the company if they would consider permanently offering the Throwback sodas (say if millions of anti-high-fructose-corn-syrup soda drinkers made a run on this product) and they replied "there are no current plans to offer them beyond mid-June."
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10 Comments:
It's because of Passover. You can't eat corn. :-)
Studies showing soda with HFCS caauses diabetes and kidney disease: :http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/79969.php
Also, just in. Caloric US soda (ie HFCS) causes kidney
disease, especially in Women.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0003431
The whole PDF is still available free. I don't think
they were aware of the Reactive Carbonyls found by Dr. Ho at
Rutgers, but they dovetail nicely.
My daughter is allergic to corn and all corn products, so when she drinks soda's she has to be careful or she gets hives. Although she is 38 she still likes her sodas and doesn't always stop and think before she takes that drink....the itching and hives, plus she swells up. There are so many every day things with hfcs in them. You really don't stop and think until it hits your family.
I bought a 20 oz bottle of the Dew today and honestly I think it is terrible. I love mt dew with a passion and I will not drink this.
If it is not to be launched until April 20th oops Bad Publix store..
Mary, you and your daughter are overreacting. There are no allergens in HFCS. It is chemically processed sugar, nothing else. I don't know what her reactions are from, but it is not from HFCS. Before anyone asks, no, I am not a corporate shill. I'm a chef who is tired of people claiming allergies and making incredible demands. The one that really gets me is people who claim the can't have peanut oil because they have peanut allergies. There are no peanut allergens in peanut oil.
I had my first throwback Mountain dew. I love mountain dew and have not drank any other soda willingly since 1991, I will never buy throwback mountain dew ever. It tastes awful. It is not the mountain dew I know and love. Especially since they cut the orange juice from its ingredients. If mountain dew were to change permently to throwback I would never drink it again.
To the chef commenting on allergies...The allergens are the ingredients their self, well the specific proteins and enzymes within the products. I'm not sure if you have experience with food allergies, but if you have had any, you would know people don't usually want to "fake" their food allergies. It restricts the food that their allowed to eat, it's not a fun process. By the way you can't fake hives and rashes to my knowledge.
And by the way "chef", people can be allergic to high fructose corn syrup because they're allergic to fructose and sucrose. Obviously you don't have to struggle on a day to day basis with food allergies. I can assure you that people do not "claim" food allergies and those incredible demands are made to keep them alive.
I don't like the taste of the throwbacks and am darn glad to find out their for a limited time I was afraid I would have to drink somthing else and that was incomprehensable to me. I guess I don't recall the old flavor. I've been drinkin pepsi as long as I can remember and it ain't never tasted like this to me.
OJ wasn't in original dew. It is used to 'cut' hfcs so that it doesn't taste like a pcb waste dump in your mouth.
Original Dew in 16 oz glass bottles was the best flavor ever.
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