First, just what IS a "noncabonated" drink? Second, artificial sweeteners are POISON to your body. Hopefully noone will ever actually buy this stuff and drink it.

any drink that is not carbonated like juice, coffee, tea, fruit drinks.....

There is no Rivalry between either soft drink company,... They are trying to portray a Paradigm that does not Exist


Both companies Coke and Pepsi are complicit with Monsanto in Poisoning the Population with genetically altered food and the FDA is just as Corrupt.

If people would do their research, they will find that the sugar companies don't want stevia to be sold here in the US. Stevia has been used as a sweetener in many other countries and the US sugar companies see stevia as serious competition. Stevia is a much better choice as it can be grown in many areas and does not deplete the soil like sugarcane does.
Kudos to Coke and Pepsi for researching other NATURAL sweeteners.

My son has grown and used stevia for years. It is an easy to grow herb. Could it be that the govt has been protecting the sugar industry? After all, if you and I can grow our own sweetener, what will become of the sugar farmers? Or will stevia be a controlled agricultural product like wheat?

I wish you people would do your homework. Soft drinks do not contain sugar. They contain High Fructose Corn Syrup. Talk about poison. A doctor told me that HFCS is poison in a bottle. His exact words.

If the FDA really want to help the American consumer of soft drinks, tell the American people the truth about HFCS.

Cindy, first of all get your facts straight.
You are saying artificial sweetners are bad, yes they are but the stevia is natural. It is extracted from leafs of a plant and alot of of pharmaceutical companies use it, if it was not safe they would not use it. As we know it the FDA will end up approving the stevia for COKE's beverage.

So lets get this right, artificial sweetener will not get the nod from the FDA so the product will not be for sale at places that sell cigarrettes and Jack Daniels.

Stevia has been sold in health food stores for years. This sweetner is truly a threat to the sugar industry (or corn industry) It is actually good for your body, and tastes great! I will be looking for these juices.

Stevia has been around for decades, it's available in grocery stores right next to the sugar and sugar substitutes. The media is always trying to make something out of nothing.

The FDA breached its own guidelines. Stevia should have been automatically approved due to it being available since prior to 1958 and it was generally recognized as safe since that time. Someone lobbied to have it rejected and it was rejected.

What's a "natural" food? One that has no preservatives, that spoil on the shelf? One that may have worms in it because the grower didn't use pesticides? We live much longer today than we did 100 years ago. Why? According to the "naturalists" we should all be dead. Who cares about science? I do.

HEY STEVIA IS A NATURAL HERB AND I SURE HOPE COKE COMES OUT WITH THIS AS A ALTERNATIVE TO ASPARTMAME AND THE SPLENDA BASED DRINKS! HOORAY FOR COKE AND I HOPE THE SUGAR INDUSTRY TAKES NOTICE TO NATURAL ALTERNATIVES THAT DON'T GIVE YOU DIABETES!

Stevia is not an "artificial" sweetener. It is produced from a plant, not made in a lab. Click the Stevia link.

First, just what IS a "noncabonated" drink? Second, artificial sweeteners are POISON to your body. Hopefully noone will ever actually buy this stuff and drink it.---------- obviously u didn't pay attention to the story... it is a NATURAL sweetener made from the herb, not artifical.

Well the FDA approved aspartame and it is ridiculously bad for you--tied to like 92 ailments...so I'm not sure what FDA approval is really supposed to get you...

Cindy said "just what IS a 'noncarbonated' drink?"

Carbonated beverages are those which have had gas, such as carbon dioxide, dissolved into it, which is what gives a carbonated beverage its characteristic fizz.

Non-carbonated beverages are those which don't have gas dissolved into it, which are drinks that don't have fizz. An example of a non-carbonated beverage: regular drinking water, hot coffee, and orange juice.

As for stevia: non-issue from a health standpoint considering that it is a natural extract from an herb and has been used for decades without incident.

Sounds like another vanilla coke disaster. Stevia is very sweet but what are they going to do with that terrible after taste.

I have used Stevia for years. I even grow the herb and use my own leaves. I feel safer using Stevia than all other artificial sweeteners except splenda (which is recommended by health officials in hospitals). I think the makers of the other artificial sweeteners are just trying to throw their weight around to stop this approval for coke products. Sweet n Low and other artificial sweeteners using the same ingredients have been linked to tumor growth time and again, but you don't see the FDA doing anything about them.

stevia has been years for many years in europe where they have to be approved by the german gov't and they are far ahead of here. most people into healthfood will only use stevia and i have never heard of any problems