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Pepsi wants to make its offerings healthier

Pepsi’s “2025 Sustainability Agenda” also included policies to limit water consumption.

PEPSICO SET NEW targets for more healthful food and beverages this week and announced pledges to reduce product packaging and limit water use.

With US soda giants under pressure to produce more healthy beverages, Pepsi pledged that by 2025, at least two-thirds of the 12 ounce beverages it sells will contain 100 or fewer calories. At least three-quarters of foods sold will not exceed 1.1 grams of saturated fat per 100 calories.

Pepsi’s “2025 Sustainability Agenda” also included policies to limit water consumption, incorporate more recyclable packaging and purchase crops from sustainable farms.

Besides soda, Pepsi’s brands include Gatorade sports drinks, the Frito-Lay snack brand and Tropicana orange juice.

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PepsiCo chief executive Indra Nooyi said the company’s 2025 Sustainability Agenda aims to be consistent with United Nations sustainable development goals and the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

“To succeed in today’s volatile and changing world, corporations must do three things exceedingly well: focus on delivering strong financial performance, do it in a way that is sustainable over time and be responsive to the needs of society,” Nooyi said.

The announcement comes after it was revealed last week that both PepsiCo and Coca-Cola had been quietly fighting anti-obesity measures such as taxes on soft drinks.

Between 2011 and 2015, the Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo sponsored 96 national health organisations battling public health problems such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease, according to research published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

- © AFP, 2016

Read: It’s official: Ireland is getting a sugar tax (but not for a few years)

Read: How the sugar-trafficking food industry paid scientists to tell us fat, not sugar, was the real problem

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    Oct 22nd 2016, 6:28 PM

    Sugar.
    The big silent killer.
    If you wouldn’t feel right putting 9 spoons of sugar in your tea then don’t drink a can of Pepsi.

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    Oct 22nd 2016, 6:37 PM

    Most of the sugar in soda is high fructose corn syrup which is even worse form of sugar.

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    Mute Ted Logan
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    Oct 22nd 2016, 6:56 PM

    Not this side of the Atlantic it’s not.

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    Mute Tom Kelly
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    Oct 22nd 2016, 7:47 PM

    3% of all calories consumed come from soft drinks. So lets not just pick on the soft drinks manufacturers. Or is it just easy pickings?

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    Oct 22nd 2016, 7:55 PM

    @Tom Burke:
    And they support Israel, BOYCOTT

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    Mute Paul Quirke
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    Oct 22nd 2016, 6:10 PM

    Calorie count is not the only criterion to ascess the healthiness of these drinks. There are lots of carcogenic or just plain bad addetives that have no calorific value.

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    Mute Drew TheChinaman :)
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    Oct 22nd 2016, 6:15 PM

    Just plain bad… would that be the scientific term they use in all the published papers that have failed to prove any of that to be true or is it a more colloquial term yere ma, be hollering at y’all when you wanna drink soda?

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    Oct 22nd 2016, 6:30 PM

    Pepsi and coke cola only good for removing stains off you jacks bowl. Pure chemical crap

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    Oct 22nd 2016, 6:47 PM

    Here’s a crazy thought how about drinking water that has no calories :)

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    Mute Charlie Wrex
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    Oct 22nd 2016, 6:14 PM

    Can’t remember the last time I bought a pepsi.

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    Oct 22nd 2016, 6:17 PM

    It was probably the last time you tried and failed to buy a Coke…

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    Mute Charlie Wrex
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    Oct 22nd 2016, 6:25 PM

    lol. You’re probably right!

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    Mute Tom Burke
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    Oct 22nd 2016, 6:54 PM

    Pepsi don’t care about your health.
    Pepsi will only move to keep market share and the profits.

    In the end, the people decide. If we don’t buy their sugar laden poison, they will stop making it.

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    Oct 22nd 2016, 6:07 PM

    Healthier? They’re going to close down?

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    Oct 22nd 2016, 6:09 PM

    Pepsi zero. that will do it

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    Mute Brent Weaver
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    Oct 22nd 2016, 6:14 PM

    Zero Pepsi and we’ll be fine.

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    Oct 22nd 2016, 6:47 PM

    “Uh-Oh the little people have copped on to the great sugar (and caffeine) addiction model that we have been pushing for the last couple of decades, we need a new ingredient from that addictive substances list that we have, now where is it, get the smoke and mirrors manual out too”

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    Oct 22nd 2016, 10:48 PM

    We need old style thinking, junk food on occasions before certain sweets and cakes were only for Xmas and birthdays the odd party not part of the weekly shop, and same with take outs.

    Shops need to be made to adjust there offers sell items at affordable prices who needs 3 for 2 offers etc… I know people are not forced to eat but if don’t eat it just causes unnecessary waste.

    These taxes are only so governments can cash in and make for them self’s and pertent to help.

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    Oct 22nd 2016, 9:51 PM

    Stop using fructose would help

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    Oct 22nd 2016, 8:21 PM

    John Lemon premium juice drink leaves Pepsi in the SHADE

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