Anyone tried the new Pepsi Recipe yet?

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For those that don't know Pepsi just changed their classic flavour to reduce sugar.

I have to say this stuff is disgusting, I just bought 2 bottles of Syrup for my Sodastream not noticing they change that recipe too...

It's actually very annoying as the value in my Sodastream has now gone way down as I can't get normal Pepsi anymore. So much for doing my bit to help the environment.

I don't see why companies can't just let us have the option, I always pay the extra for the sugar as it tastes way better, looks like ill be switching back to Coca Cola now!.
 
Always preferred Pepsi to Coke but not sure about the Pepsi Max v Coke Zero, id have to try them side by by side. Tbh id rather the choice of whether to drink full fat or a sweetener version.
 
I get all my pop from Aldi now. As own brand cheapo pop goes Aldis stuff is pretty damn good, and their knock off of Pepsi Max, in the blue label bottles, is the closest to the real stuff I have found. And at 47p for a 2l bottle compared to £1.75 it is a no brainer.
 
robfosters said:
I haven’t tried because I think Pepsi Max is better anyway, particularly cherry Pepsi max.
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I can't drink diet cokes, I can't stand the taste of sweeteners and I find the aftertaste absolutly disgusting, the only one I can tolerate and I literally mean the ONLY diet coke I can drink is PepsiMax Cherry.

Bubo said:
I get all my pop from Aldi now. As own brand cheapo pop goes Aldis stuff is pretty damn good, and their knock off of Pepsi Max, in the blue label bottles, is the closest to the real stuff I have found. And at 47p for a 2l bottle compared to £1.75 it is a no brainer.
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To be fair I can't remember which one but one of them is almost similar that I do like it one of the Lidl/Aldi ones, in general Coke is the one drink I don't like the flavour of a lot of the cheap brands. Lemonade though, man any ol crap will do for me it all tastes fine, as long as it's not diet.

D.P. said:
a glass of water FTW, or just a nice beer or wine. I never understood the need for drinking pure sugar with chemical ****. Tastes vile and is just needless calories.
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If you want to argue Sugar sure, but beer has as around the same amount of calories as coke so that argument isn't that valid. Taste is individual though, i don't really drink alchohol in general, and Wine is outright disgusting, the only thing it's good for is my bolognese!
 
kieran_read said:
For those that don't know Pepsi just changed their classic flavour to reduce sugar.

I have to say this stuff is disgusting, I just bought 2 bottles of Syrup for my Sodastream not noticing they change that recipe too...

It's actually very annoying as the value in my Sodastream has now gone way down as I can't get normal Pepsi anymore. So much for doing my bit to help the environment.

I don't see why companies can't just let us have the option, I always pay the extra for the sugar as it tastes way better, looks like ill be switching back to Coca Cola now!.
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That must be terrible for you. I'm sure there are support groups available to help you through this troubled time.
 
Why??

Looks like coke is going to win again. They've not rolled it out to postmix yet but when they do I'll be switching my sites over to coke then..

I'm really sensitive to artificial sweeteners so yuuk!!
 
Bubo said:
I get all my pop from Aldi now. As own brand cheapo pop goes Aldis stuff is pretty damn good, and their knock off of Pepsi Max, in the blue label bottles, is the closest to the real stuff I have found. And at 47p for a 2l bottle compared to £1.75 it is a no brainer.
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Love me some Vive Cola
 
Bubo said:
I get all my pop from Aldi now. As own brand cheapo pop goes Aldis stuff is pretty damn good, and their knock off of Pepsi Max, in the blue label bottles, is the closest to the real stuff I have found. And at 47p for a 2l bottle compared to £1.75 it is a no brainer.
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I buy 36 of these every week and I can't tell the difference.
Important to say that a few years ago my wife gave me this by not telling me, she filled normal Coke bottles with it and after two weeks asked me what I thought :)


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It seems as long as you're under 21 cans a day, you may be okay, at least for Aspartame. Didn't look up all the ingredients

The primary source for exposure to aspartame in the US is diet soft drinks, though it can be consumed in other products, such as pharmaceutical preparations, fruit drinks, and chewing gum among others in smaller quantities.[8] A 12-US-fluid-ounce (350 ml; 12 imp fl oz) can of diet soda contains 0.18 grams (0.0063 oz) of aspartame, and, for a 75-kilogram (165 lb) adult, it takes approximately 21 cans of diet soda daily to consume the 3.7 grams (0.13 oz) of aspartame that would surpass the FDA's 50 mg/kg of body weight ADI of aspartame from diet soda alone.[30]
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame#Intake
 
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