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PepsiCo's Health and Wellness Philosophy

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The PepsiCo family of companies cares about the health of the people who enjoy our products. As a company that provides hundreds of convenient food and beverage products that rejuvenate millions of consumers around the world every day, we are committed to offering the widest possible spectrum of great tasting food and beverage choices.

We also recognize that consumers have an increasing need and desire for foods and beverages that make it easier and more enjoyable for them to lead healthy lives. We believe that we are ideally positioned to meet that need, and we intend to lead the way.

Specifically, we are committed to:

  • Providing A Spectrum of Good Choices that range from the small indulgences our consumers love to a wider variety of improved, enhanced, and fortified products that meet their needs for better health. In fact, our commitment is that 50% of our new products will be comprised of essentially healthy ingredients or offer improved health benefits.
  • learn more about the smart spot Reaching Consumers Broadly. Because our products are enjoyed by the majority of consumers the world over, we believe our largest contribution to healthy living will be in providing healthy products with mainstream appeal. To that end, we’re committed to improving the healthfulness of our products without sacrificing either taste or convenience. And we’re committed to introducing big new product ideas that appeal to mainstream consumers.
  • Applying the Best Available Science. Because nutrition science is constantly evolving, we have anPepsiCo's Pledge on Children's Food and Beverage Advertisingobligation to evaluate any major new health learning that applies to our productsand make formulationand labeling decisions based onthebestavailablescience. In some cases new learning will prompt usto make changes. In other cases, where the science is unclear Pepsi School Policyorconflicting,wemaychoose tomake no change. In all cases we willcommunicate our decisions--internally and externally--in an honest and transparent way.Frito-Lay School Policy
  • Promoting Healthy Kids Lifestyles. We know we can play an important role in helping kids lead healthier lives by offering healthyproduct choices in schools, by developing healthy products that appeal to kids andby promoting programs that encourage kids to lead active lives. learn more about the smart spot playgrounds

To learn more, visit PepsiCo's Smart Spot and Smart Spot Playgrounds sites.