http://www.fff.org/freedom/0498d.asp

papahoth, your deep concern HAS been noted, and will be addressed in the swiftest and most appropriate manner possible!

<sound of toilet flushing>

While not a fan of colas at all, I used to drink Snapple once in a while...glad they're bringing it back to sugar. HFCS leaves such a disgusting feel and taste in the mouth...Plus it's in everything from bread to Campbell's soup (even their "natural" and "healthy" lines) to jars of minced garlic.

The hilarity will ensue when these same people who claim to taste the corn in HFCS sweetened products realize the sugar used to sweeten their new drinks are made from sugar beets and not from cane.
"I can taste the beet, I swear."

@Ezra Ekman: I'm tempted to check my local Costco to test that theory because I live in Maryland, which is nowhere near Mexico.

@papahoth: Many doctors will tell you not to drink diet sodas because your body tries to process it like real sugar and it can screw up your metabolism

While it's true that brown sugar and molasses have more minerals than white sugar, but for the most part it's in very small amounts. So small, that may as well discount it completely. It doesn't make it any more healthy. This excludes blackstrap molasses which does have pretty decent amounts of minerals.

Lipton is the only company I know for sure that sells unsweetened bottled tea.

If all this is too much to remember, take this one fact away with you: corn is what they use to fatten livestock.

Agreed. It's once in a blue moon that I'm in the mood for a Coke or a Sprite, and as Coke and Sprite in the US both taste like crap, I never buy them. I'd love to be able to satisfy that incredibly rare sugary drink craving with a proper Coke... sigh.

Come to think of it, HCFS is great for my diet, as I just don't drink soda anymore.

Hmm, it's not so much a sudden backlash as a backlash that's been growing and growing to the point where the manufacturers have finally taken note.

I'm not a huge fan of soda etc anyway, but drinks sweetened with HCFS taste very different from those sweetened with cane sugar. The HCFS gives beverages a sticky, syrupy, mouth-coating nastiness that just doesn't happen with cane sugar.

Exactly what I was thinking. I suspect the calorie reduction will have very little to do with the switch from HCFS to cane sugar and everything to do with the bottle redesign. "Now it'll fit in your cup holder!" is a great way of saying "look, less Snapple!"

Still good to see companies cutting out that vile shit, though.

@walterny:

I would disagree. I like to drink iced teas, lemonades, etc. just as much as anyone else. However, I hate the consistency of HFCS. Real sugar tastes better. It's all in the taste, man.

Stop ruining our buzz.

@larrymac808: They got rid of my two favorite flavors, Kashmiri Chai and Gold Rush Cinnamon so I don't drink them anymore

Thank you! Sugar is sugar, regardless of how you mix it. This is about marketing and based on the responses here, you all are primed for the marketing.

This is utter nonsense. Sugar is sugar. HFCS has the same three molecules as sugar and every bit of science shows it does exactly the same thing in the body as sugar. How these internet myths propagate!!

There are multiple differences between the two. Drinks with cane sugar are more satisfying, therefore you are more likely not to consume as much as if it had HFCS. Also, HFCS doesn't break down in the body the same way cane sugar does, nor is insulin properly released for it either. This makes it more likely to get stored as fat.

If anyone has a local Publix and looking for good Iced tea, they sell some that actually uses real sugar.

I do certainly hope that more companies get on the band wagon here.

This is great news. I will start drinking Snapple once again. The last six months I cut out ingrediants that had HFCS. And I could really tell a difference. I also found the coke from Costco. It tastes like real coke classic. HFCS is a major contributor to bad health and the US being overweight. HFCS is in everything you eat. You have to look for ingrediants that don't have it. You won't miss HFCS and I am glad Snapple will be something I'll want to drink again.

@erratica: You are correct. Just what we need, an excuse to consume more empty calories because "it tastes better."

@AstraBabble: Wikipedia, the source of science. Show me some science that it is somehow bad for you. Besides being a sugar with calories.

@bohemian: Drink diet like doctors recommend. No sugar.

@kaptainkk: Enjoy the calories.

@Joshua Willis: A reason to drink sugary drinks is not great news in this overweight country. It is terrible news.

@yagisencho: You should not be drinking any sugared crap, sugar or HFCS.

@ecwis: Yea, what research was this? Certainly not based on actual science.

@grumpygirl: That would be the sugar that is artifically propped up in price in the USA which helps destroy the Everglades. Should actually be much cheaper than we pay.

@AlexDitto: Where are these studies? That is a load of crap. All sugars are bad for you.

And that would actually be pretty loose in my cupholder.

Also, title bar is showing "Hfcs" instead of "HFCS". Just pointing that out. :D

Good for them, and good for us. Folks who don't like corn syrup have a new way to get fat.

Here's a tip - boil some water, add some tea bags, chill, serve. Delicious home-made refreshing tea. You can add as much or as little sugar as you want.

I still do not get how people are able to chug sodas and uber-sweetened "fruit juice" drinks. So unbelievably disgusting.

Actually that's basically the first thing I need to get through my 14 hour days since I don't drink coffee or tea....

"The author is a consultant to the food and beverage industry in nutritive
sweeteners, including HFCS and sucrose. His professional associations, past
and present, include individual food industry companies as well as such
organizations as the American Chemical Society, American Council on Science
and Health, Calorie Control Council, Corn Refiners Association, Institute
of Food Technologists, and International Life Sciences Institute."

Does anyone remember what Snapple was back in the late 80s? IIRC, it was juice drinks - the iced tea was a later product. I remember I used to get their apple juice with my deli sandwich.

*runs off to research Snapple History*

@ADismalScience:

Or get up and walk your fat ass around a few times during the day, then you won't have to worry so much. Take a walk around your building a few times. It's not that hard ... really.

Here's hoping. I like their products as well.

My local Wegman's carries their Just Green and Just Black teas in the 64 oz. size, though. Which is awesome -- wish I could find more of their flavors in the jumbo jug.

@eightfifteen:
Mercury.
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When I was younger I was convinced that the Coke in Egypt tasted different, and growing up here I would buy the glass bottled Coke thinking it would taste the same, but it never did. Now I know why!

I am so excited for all these new drinks to use real sugar!

@Etoiles: IMO, soda pop with sugar just tastes better.

@eightfifteen: Sugar is actually cheaper. HFCS appears cheaper, but that's because of government subsidies for HFCS and high tariffs on sugar.

My information comes from peer-reviewed scientific journals (I'm a nutrition graduate student). If you can get access, a recent issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition devoted a supplement to HFCS.

[www.ajcn.org]

So, before it didn't have filtered water?

agreeeed, i reallly dont trust HFCS

@wagenejm: The corn isn't as natural as you think. Watch "King Corn" to see what kind of corn they use to make HFCS. It's not the corn you buy in the supermarket to make corn-on-the-cob. It's heavily gentically modified. In fact, farmers buy the corn from pesticide companies, because they genetically engineer the "corn" to grow with their particular pesticide. The corn itself tastes horrible when fully grown. The stuff that isn't made into HFCS gets sold as feed for livestock, who are slaughtered just before the "corn" feed kills them.

@cuchanu: Just incase ur not joking, Whats being a republican have to do with Racisim?... I'm a republican and i'm half Mexican!

But anyway....

Yes!! Finaly we're going to see good, not chemicalish tasting soft drinks I'm Psyched!!

I wonder how many in management actually drink their own products...

It's not the lemons that make the lemonade, it's the all-natural sulfur.

I occasionally drink a rum and coke here in the U.S. I went to Nicaragua and had one and couldn't believe the difference. It used Mexican Coke and good (but inexpensive) Flor de Cana rum.

@FooSchnickens: you racist bastard they're all the same to you, aren't they? You must be a Republican. /s

So your body has to expend energy by way of enzymatic processes in order to get to the glucose & fructose it uses for energy when processing Sucrose, where as the body doesn't need to exert any energy to utilize the straight Glucose & sucrose blend of HFCS.

Further more, the body uses these enzymatic processes to regulate the level of Glucose in the blood stream. Given that the body cant extract energy from the bonded Glucose/Fructose that Sucrose is. So, adding straight glucose to your diet prevents the body from being able to moderate blood sugar levels, as it would when processing Sucrose.

@JGKojak: Hey Lipton, how you like DEM apples??

They realized they could either try to get their premium brand image back by doing something like this, or just give up and cut the price.

More competition = better for consumers. Maybe if we're lucky, they'll start using so much sugar they'll help lobby to reduce sugar tariffs.

Awesome News!!! Natural sugar FTW

I definitely prefer sugar to mercury-flavored sodas, and the Mexican version still comes in the glass bottle so it's not flavored by whatever it is they coat the aluminum cans with.

Mmm, I can feel my arteries hardening already...

In reality, all refined sugar is something we should avoid. Companies switching from HFCS to regular sugar is just a marketing move; no one's health will be improved because of it.

That, plus the fact that's it's a man-made substance that is suddenly being put in EVERYTHING. It's a little strange when something man-made starts appearing in all of my food. In addition, it's dangerous for these companies to have all their eggs in the corn basket when corn prices are subject to such dramatic changes, what with their being tied to so many different markets: fuel, human food, animal feed, etc etc. Sugar's probably more stable.

I rather like Snapple. That said, I don't drink it at all regularly, and most of these drinks are just sugary water, so I stay away from them. I will be tempted to try the new sugar-based Pepsi, though, see what the taste is like.

I want to stick with Honest Tea (mmmmmm, Moroccan Mint), but their takeover by Coca-Cola keeps me wary.

Quote from wikipedia: "In May 2006, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) threatened to file a lawsuit against Cadbury Schweppes for labeling 7 Up as "All Natural" or "100% Natural", despite the presence of high-fructose corn syrup. Although the U.S. FDA has no general definition of "natural", CSPI claims that HFCS is not a "natural" ingredient due to the high level of processing and the use of at least one genetically modified (GMO) enzyme required to produce it. On January 12, 2007, Cadbury Schweppes agreed to stop calling 7 Up "All Natural". They now label it "100% Natural Flavors"."

@eightfifteen: It's not really sudden. A lot of people have been trying to spread the word that HFCS is evil for quite some time. I think it's just hitting critical mass and getting more attention recently. Ironically, this comes just after the trade group made all those commercials about how it's really not that bad.

@wagenejm: Refined sugar isn't really much more natural.

Oh, thank goodness, I can now have a 160-calorie sugar-laden beverage instead of a 200-calorie HFCS-laden beverage. Just drink water! Your body will thank you. The last thing most of us office drones need is a slurry of caffeine and simple sugars in the middle of another 14-hour sedentary day.

I might actually drink a Snapple now and then after this change.

I'm ******* Matt Damon, while I'm drinking diet snapple...

hopefully there are a lot more posts like this - the sooner the better!