{"id":8213,"date":"2005-04-25T08:23:34","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T15:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/04\/25\/pepsi-one-point-one.html"},"modified":"2005-04-25T08:23:34","modified_gmt":"2005-04-25T15:23:34","slug":"pepsi_one_point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/25\/pepsi_one_point.html","title":{"rendered":"Pepsi One-point-one"},"content":{"rendered":"

New, improved taste!<\/em><\/p>\n

Or not.<\/p>\n

Pepsi One<\/a> — Pepsi’s one-calorie cola — has been reformulated, inside and out. It now sports a blackish can, instead of a silver can. It also sports Splenda as the diet sweetener rather than aspartame.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the taste suffers a bit. Granted that diet sodas generally suck, Pepsi One at least had a frisson of sugar to give it something other than just the taste of Nutrasweet. The Splenda formulation seems to have less flavor but more artificial sweetner taste. <\/p>\n

Still beats straight Diet Pepsi (to say nothing of Diet Coke, the Anti-Cola foretold in ancient prophecy), but not as much as it used to.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/u>: Someone else who doesn’t care for the change<\/a>. The reason for the change<\/a> (aspartame breaks down in heat, and it’s now widely available). Sugar growers, not surprisingly, dislike Splenda<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Various other comments (in the comments) here<\/a>. One in particular matches my observations:<\/p>\n

I was able to buy both old and new Pepsi One and do a taste test:
\n– Old Pepsi one tastes better to me and more like real Coke (my original addiction). Remember the original adds with “tastes like a leading cola”?
\n– New Pepsi one is sweeter and has more citrus flavor (as opposed to “dark” flavors of clove\/allspice\/cinnamon\/etc.) This makes it more like regular Pepsi instead of Coke.<\/p>\n

Also, I made an error — neither the previous Pepsi One formulation<\/a> nor the present one have any sugar, just artificial sweetener. Still taste better than Diet Pepsi, though. Both old and new have acesulfame potassium (“ace-K”) as a secondary sweetener, which is what differentiated it from Diet Pepsi.<\/p>\n

Coke is coming out with a Pepsi One clone called (oddly) Coca-Cola Zero<\/a>. It uses the same aspartame\/ace-K combo as the old Pepsi One. That’s very promising. They’re also reformulating Diet Coke to use Splenda instead of aspartame, which is promising only to the extent that Diet Coke tastes awful now and can hardly get worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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