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Pepsi Zero Sugar (sold under the names Diet Pepsi Max until 2009 and Pepsi Max until August 2016), is a zero-calorie, sugar-free, formerly ginseng-infused cola [1] sweetened with aspartame and acesulfame K, marketed by PepsiCo. It originally contained nearly twice the caffeine of Pepsi's other cola beverages. [2]
Erythritol is a sugar substitute known as a sugar alcohol, but despite the name, it doesn’t actually contain any sugar or alcohol, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The products contain approximately half the sugar of the regular versions. The Pepsi variant, Pepsi Edge, is sweetened with sucralose and corn syrup. The sweetening of the Coca-Cola variant, Coca-Cola C2, is a combination of corn syrup, aspartame, acesulfame potassium and sucralose. Pepsi discontinued Edge in 2005, citing lackluster sales.
In late 2013, the firm replaced their previous stevia and erythritol sweetener with a mix of stevia extract, monk fruit extract, and erythritol, a blend that they called SweetSmart. [18] [19] In September 2016, the company announced that all their products had been reformulated to be sweetened only with stevia. [20]
Consuming a drink with erythritol — an artificial sweetener used to add bulk to stevia and monk fruit and to sweeten low-carb keto products — more than doubled the risk of blood clotting in 10 ...
A soda giant has realized one of its products is actually full of the very thing it’s supposed to have none of: sugar. The FDA announced that PepsiCo is voluntarily recalling its caffeine-free ...
The name "erythritol" derives from the Greek word for the color red (erythros or ἐρυθρός). That is the case even though erythritol is almost always found in the form of white crystals or powder, and chemical reactions do not turn it red. The name "erythritol" is adapted from a closely-related compound, erythrin, which turns red upon ...
For example, stevia comes from processed stevia plant extract, monk fruit sweetener comes from processing a chemical in a gourdlike fruit grown in China, and sucralose is a chemically altered ...