Coke's new drink may be unveiled without FDA approval

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.

Finally, we know why Steve Jobs looks so thin. Coke has been squeezing the juice out of him, called Stevia. Consumers will not only chug this drink, but listen to more music and enjoy a better sense of design.

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

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 is not artificial. It is a plant just like the fruits and vegetables we eat. I have used stevia for years. Entire areas of the world have used stevia in drinks and food preparation for years. It has been available in this country for decades. It is available in any store that offers NATURAL alternatives to the chemicals preferred by the manufacturers of artificial chemicals. Stevia is more accepted by the body than products that are refined, like sugar. If we received whole sugar instead of what is left after the natural parts are removed, it would be more body friendly. Sugar begins as a liquid squeezed from sugar cane. Refining takes out the color, nutrition, and water, leaving us with the dregs which get bleached and granulated. There is nothing natural about what we think of as sugar. The refined chemical we use causes the body to dump insulin to dispose of it. Stevia is as natural as the liquid in your pot after cooking vegetables. It can be grown on your kitchen window sill, along with other plants such as rosemary, parsley, oregano, basil, and thyme. Before modern manufacturing we grew these in kitchen gardens to season or food.

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.