They've been selling "real sugar" (i.e. no corn syrup) Pepsi at my grocery stores for years now.

There's also a "real sugar" Mountain Dew variant that seems to be seasonal.

Though I'm pretty sure regular old blue-canned Pepsi is still sweetened just with HFCS.

> There's also a "real sugar" Mountain Dew

By far the grossest pop I have ever drank. Give me HFCS Mountain Dew every time. It is not intended to be anything remotely natural, and trying to make it with cane sugar really ruins it for me. I have no idea why the flavor is so different from the HFCS version.

Is that only in certain markets? In the US, Pepsi lists the ingredients as:

CARBONATED WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CARAMEL COLOR, SUGAR, PHOSPHORIC ACID, CAFFEINE, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL FLAVOR

What's interesting to me is that it has both HFCS and normal sugar.

https://www.pepsicoproductfacts.com/Home/product?formula=350...

HFCS replaced sugar due to cost cutting, and does taste different than sugar. They could be using a blend to try and bring back the sugar profile without raising costs as much.

Reminds me of Euro Shopper energy drink that made similar change from full sugar to partially sweetened. Some rumours indicate that sales dropped by multiple tens of percent... Some retailers even indicated it to be one of the most stupid changes in history...

Was there ever an unsweetened Pepsi?! No sugar or other sweeteners?

I guess the parent means that all of the formulations contain artificial sweetener (while some also contain sugar).

Presumably they mean sweeteners that are not cane sugar.

translation snafu, definitely meant artificial sweetener