{"id":9133,"date":"2014-05-07T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T02:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=9133"},"modified":"2014-05-07T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T02:00:07","slug":"coke-pepsi-to-drop-controversial-ingredient-entirely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/07\/coke-pepsi-to-drop-controversial-ingredient-entirely\/","title":{"rendered":"Coke, Pepsi to drop controversial ingredient entirely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/powerade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9134\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/powerade.jpg\" alt=\"powerade\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/powerade.jpg 400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/powerade-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/powerade-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Facebook Page of Powerade Ion4<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP)\u2014 PepsiCo has joined Coca-Cola in saying it&#8217;s working to remove a controversial ingredient from all its drinks, including Mountain Dew.<\/p>\n<p>The company had announced last year that it was removing the ingredient from Gatorade. Then on Monday, Coca-Cola said it is dropping the ingredient from all its drinks, including Powerade.<\/p>\n<p>Brominated vegetable oil was the target of petitions by a Mississippi teenager who wanted it out of Gatorade and Powerade. The petition noted that the ingredient has been patented as a flame retardant and isn&#8217;t approved for use in Japan and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have stood by the safety of the ingredient.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Facebook Page of Powerade Ion4 &nbsp; NEW YORK (AP)\u2014 PepsiCo has joined Coca-Cola in saying it&#8217;s working to remove &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2946,2945],"class_list":["post-9133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-coca-cola","tag-pepsi","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}