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Coke, Pepsi to show caffeine content
Steven Bodzin
Bloomberg News
Feb. 21, 2007 06:14 PM

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Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc., the world's two biggest drink makers, are changing the U.S. labels of their caffeinated drinks to show how much of the stimulant is present in a portion and in a full single-serving container.

The companies announced the changes in response to a statement on the Internet yesterday from the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer-advocacy group. The group, which has called for mandatory caffeine labeling since 1997, praised Pepsi's new labels and called on Coca-Cola to follow suit.

"That information on soda containers will help pregnant women, parents and others concerned about adverse effects of the mildly addictive stimulant drug, which is also found in coffee, tea, chocolate and other products," the group said.


The changes are part of an "industry initiative," Coca- Cola spokeswoman Diana Garza Ciarlante said today in a telephone interview. "We started making the change some time ago."

She said Coca-Cola made the announcement to correct misinformation. Pepsi said it also voluntarily initiated changes.

"We started phasing these labels several months ago on many of our beverages," Dave DeCecco, a spokesman for Purchase, New York-based Pepsi, said in an e-mailed statement. "They're showing up on Pepsi-Cola now because we timed the labeling change to coincide with the brand's new look."

Coca-Cola's Full Throttle and Enviga drinks are already labeled, and the company's other products will start to display the information over the course of this year, Atlanta-based Coca- Cola said today in a statement. Its red cans of Coca-Cola will start to show the new labels in May, the company said.

Coca-Cola's stock fell 21 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $47.57 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.

And I bet nobody cares how much caffeine these products contain.

I do

My point is...putting the content of anything on the label doesn't seem to deter anyone from drinking it. Sodium, sugar...people still down the crap like water. We already know these sodas contain a lot of caffeine, right?

Give me more!

Pepsi is waaay better than coke!

Sprite only!!!!

Pepsi is better than Coke, but Diet Coke is better than Diet Pepsi... go figure.

and they can put whatever they want on the label, as long as their aren't any mouse turds or human fingers in it, I'll drink it.

I like Coke Zero better than diet. I have no idea why... it has all the same numbers, but it taste different for some reason. It must be the pretty can.

Right now I've been a big fan of the Lipton Green Tea w/ citrus bottles. Try them out, very good!

I like things with a pretty can too.

Mt Dew RULES!!!!!

Coffee in the morning is my only caffeine!!

I always wondered why it wasn't on there before.

Caffeine Free Diet Coke with a lime is my drink of choice. I don't like the caffeine rush with the regular Diet Coke (though I drink it at restaruants).

In fairness the coffee manufacturers and retailers then need to display the much larger caffeine content on regular coffee servings. Way more caffeine in regular coffee than any Coke or Pepsi product mass marketed.

Ok, this brings up an important question: Pepsi or Coke?

Me, Coke all the way. Specifically Cherry Coke baby YEAH!

My choice is Pepsi but I usually get Coke! It's wierd but in the winter time, I tend to prefer Coke more but in the summer, it's gotta be Pepsi. I also tend to get Coke a lot because I usually pick up a case of Coke + Cherry Coke or Coke + Vault when two cases go on sale. When Pepsi goes on sale, there really isn't another Pepsi brand that I'd get (unless DP is being considered a part of the sale which occasionally happens).

I like both Coke and Pepsi, but prefer Pepsi.

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Coke Zero!! I used to be a Coke addict LOL, now I've been on diet for almost a year, and the regular coke taste funny now.
The only Pepsi products I like are Seira Mist Free and Diet Dr. Pepper.

I don't like coke, I just like how it smells

I was always a Pepsi man myself, but then I gave the stuff up do to the sugar and caffeine and switched to water. About 6 months ago I took to drinking soda again at times, like at restaurants, and went with diet, but I can drink either, now, with no preference either way, even when I drink the non-diet versions.

The last time I had a soda was at a tailgate party for lack of something to drink like bottled water that was already gone.

Now if we could get coffee producers to put their caffeine levels on their labels.

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I was gonna say beer, but nevermind, I forgot.

Actually, go for it. Sales have been down, so you'll get bombarded by hungry salespeople! No 3 foot sword can protect you against those vultures! HAHAHA

I used to like Pepsi but it tastes gross to me now. Now it's Coke or Cherry Coke only! That Vault is good stuff too!

Anyone tried the new Cherry Coke with zero calories? I have found that all of those drinks taste like crap so I don't want to spend money to try it out to just throw it away.

cherry coke zero.... I've been meaning to pick some up. I'll give you a full report as soon as I do.

I want a 2 page double spaced paper stat with graphs and charts!

Yeah, yeah, ok.

only 200 more pounds to go!!!

Soda pop is nasty, I never drink the stuff.

And on another note. Get yourself some pepsi or coke; either will do. And get yourself a penny that has been coated in grime for years.

Put the penny in a glass of coke and watch as it comes out looking sparkly and new.

Then think---I drink that stuff.

Yes, those are excellant. Everytime I go to the store they're sold out, I get diet though, it tastes exactly the same.

BTW Coke was first and tastes better.

As to cherry coke zero, I pikcing up some of that today. I nevewr drank regulart cherry coke because it had like 42G of sugar in it, go figure.