Meet Pepsi Max.
0 calories.
Cool can.
But what’s the catch?
I don’t generally drink soda but recently had a craving and bought a 24 pack of Pepsi Max. I was mostly interested in the 0 calories and frankly the black packaging was more appealing that the traditional Diet Pepsi. I examined the box to try and figure out why is was different, but came up empty. I bought it anyway figuring maybe the “MAX” stood for maximum flavor or something cool. An attractive new way to market diet soda.
Then the headaches started.
Bad headaches.
All day, made me want to do absolutely nothing but sit in the dark by myself, headaches.
So I wondered if the soda was to blame. Since I hardly ever drink soda, even though I was only drinking one a day with my lunch, maybe it was not sitting right with me.
So I stopped drinking it but also decided to search for what “MAX” really meant, and learned that it is actually infused with ginseng and has almost twice the caffeine as regular Diet Pepsi.
Yeah no wonder my head hurt.
It took about three days of not drinking it for the headaches to go away.
But the question is, why don’t they tell you that on the packaging? Sure, it does list the caffeine content in fine print with the nutritional information, but that only would send up a red flag if I happened to know what the normal caffeine content of regular Diet Pepsi was.
I know now…
Did you know about Pepsi Max? Did you know what the “MAX” stood for? Am I a bozo for not realizing it when I bought it?
About Kim
I keep seeing ads on tv for pepsi max and they say nothing about the caffeine content. They advertise max taste. I don’t understand why they don’t since so many people are sensitive to caffeine and would not know it’s contents unless you look at the fine print listed with the ingredients. It is crazy and a bad move on their part.