Positive Choices

We’re working to make the positive choice the best choice for our consumers all around the world

We look across our portfolio for ways to create more smiles with every sip and every bite. By creating joyful moments for our consumers through delicious and nourishing foods and drinks and unique brand experiences, we aim to inspire choices that have a positive impact on the planet, our communities and our consumers.

We’ve been on a journey to make it easier for consumers to choose great-tasting convenient foods and drinks they want that are nutritious, enjoyable and fit their lifestyle. To do so, we’re taking a multi-pronged approach to transform recipes across our portfolio to accelerate the reduction of added sugars, sodium and saturated fat and increase servings of diverse ingredients that we deliver. Building on our progress, in 2023 we set two new nutrition goals to further reduce sodium and to purposefully deliver more servings of diverse ingredients in our global convenient foods portfolio.

Our iconic brands have unique resonance with our consumers, so we’re leveraging their power to create positive impact for people, the planet and our business by further embedding purpose at the core of our brand identities.

We’re also making it easier for our consumers to learn how the ingredients in our foods and drinks were grown, prepared and packaged through clear labeling on our foods and drinks.

In 2024, we continued working toward our goals by transforming areas of our portfolio through a combination of current offerings, reformulating some existing products and innovating to come up with new ones while continuing to infuse purpose into the heart of our brands. Our approach has helped enable growth across our portfolio, and we expect this growth to accelerate as we harness the power, reach and culture-shaping impact of our iconic brands.

People enjoying PepsiCo products, Pepsi and Lays

Expanded portfolio offerings

We’ve been transforming our portfolio so that we can bring more choices to our consumers without compromising on the taste or experience consumers want.

We strive to act as an industry leader and set ambitious nutrition goals that are aligned with guidance from global health authorities. We are primarily focused on accelerating the reduction of added sugars in our beverages, reducing sodium and saturated fat and increasing the diversity of ingredients used in convenient foods.

In 2023, we introduced two new global 2030 nutrition goals to further reduce sodium and to purposefully deliver more portions of diverse ingredients — like legumes, whole grains, plant-based proteins, fruits and vegetables and nuts and seeds — in our global convenient foods portfolio. These new goals demonstrate how we expect our portfolio to offer more choices in the future.

Beyond the nutritional content of our foods and drinks, we also aim to make labeling on product packaging easy to understand, to help our consumers make informed choices for themselves, their families and the planet. Learn more about our global labeling policy here.

Product innovation

Innovating our portfolio to inspire more choices

Approach

Since 2015, we’ve been charting progress against a set of strategic, ambitious goals that cut across our portfolio of foods and drinks. As of 2024, we've achieved all three of our 2025 targets, which focus on reducing saturated fat and sodium in convenient foods and added sugars in beverages:

≥ 67% of beverage portfolio volume will not exceed 100 Calories from added sugars per 12 ounce serving.¹
≥ 75% of convenient foods portfolio volume will not exceed 1.3 milligrams (mg) of sodium per Calorie.²
≥ 75% of convenient foods portfolio volume will not exceed 1.1 grams (g) of saturated fat per 100 Calories (first met in 2021).²

We strive to continue to meet these targets moving forward, and building on this progress, we are already underway on advancing toward our new 2030 goals to deliver:

At least 75% of our convenient foods portfolio volume at or below category sodium targets.³
145 billion portions of diverse ingredients annually in our convenient foods portfolio.²

We’re continuing to evolve the nutritional profile of our best-selling brands. In 2024, we achieved our 2025 goal for reducing added sugar in our beverages, with 67%⁴ of our beverage portfolio containing fewer than 100 Calories from added sugars per 12 oz. serving. We also surpassed our 2025 sodium reduction goal, with 77%⁴ of our convenient foods portfolio volume not exceeding 1.3 milligrams of sodium per Calorie.

Our Positive Choices goals focus on accelerating the reduction of added sugars in our beverages, reducing sodium and saturated fat and increasing servings of diverse ingredients that we deliver in our convenient foods as we continue evolving our portfolio offerings to meet the varied taste and expectations of consumers.

Our nutrition efforts are made possible through the cutting-edge innovations developed by our more than 2,800 employees across 18 R&D centers around the world. These experts include:

Nutrition scientists who guide product innovation and introduction of more positive choices;
Seasoning specialists who can optimize flavor while using less sodium; and
Professional chefs who develop flavors using various seasonings, herbs, spices and dairy that also contain less sodium overall.

PepsiCo's policy is to comply with all relevant labeling laws and regulations in all markets in which our foods and drinks are sold. As we work to provide consumers with a range of Positive Choices, we aim to have a consistent approach to nutritional labeling across the world through our Global Labeling Policy.

We converted Pepsi® to lower sugar formulations in markets such as China, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and India
Our U.S. Lightly Salted product line contains 50% less sodium than its traditional counterparts

1. Our global results are based on our Top 26 beverage markets

2. Our global results are based on our Top 23 convenient foods markets

3. Our global results are based on our Top 23 convenient foods markets. Refer to the Nutrition ESG Topics A-Z page for complete list of food categories

4. As of 2024, Top 26 beverage markets represented 78% of our global beverages volume and Top 23 convenient foods markets represented 86% of our global convenient foods volume. Results reflect the exclusion of Be & Cheery portfolio

Goals & progress

Inspiring Positive Choices by raising the bar to improve the nutritional profile of our foods and drinks

Over the past decade, we’ve continued to advance our product portfolio goals. We’ve met all three of our 2025 goals ahead of schedule, specifically:

Saturated fat reduction (first met in 2021): 81%¹ of our convenient foods portfolio volume did not exceed 1.1 g of saturated fat per 100 Calories² in 2024, first reached in 2023
Sodium reduction (first met in 2024): 77%¹ of our convenient foods portfolio volume did not exceed 1.3mg of sodium per Calorie², met in 2024
Added sugars reduction (first met in 2024): 67%¹ of our beverage portfolio volume contained fewer than 100 Calories from added sugars per 12 oz. servings³, met in 2024

Additionally, we continued to make progress toward our 2030 targets in 2024:

Sodium reduction: 44% of our global convenient foods portfolio met or was below category sodium targets⁴
Diverse ingredients: 69 billion portions of diverse ingredients were delivered^4,5

We saw a slight year-over-year increase towards our diverse ingredients goal, and we remain focused on further advancing our progress.

1. As of 2024, Top 23 convenient foods markets represented 86% of our global convenient foods volume and Top 26 beverage markets represented 78% of our global beverages volume. Results reflect the exclusion of Be & Cheery portfolio

2. Our global results are based on our Top 23 convenient foods markets

3. Our global results are based on our Top 26 beverage markets

4. Results reflect the exclusion of the Be & Cheery portfolio and the Dairy and Baby Food categories in Russia and Ukraine. As of 2024, the Top 23 convenient foods markets accounted for 84% of our total global convenient foods volume, adjusted for these exclusions

5. Including legumes, whole grains, plant-based proteins, fruits and vegetables and nuts and seeds

2025 saturated fat reduction goal

2025 sodium reduction goal

2025 sugar reduction goal

2030 sodium reduction goal

Diverse ingredients goal

1. Our global results are based on our Top 23 convenient foods markets

2. As of 2022, Top 23 convenient foods markets represented 86% of our global convenient foods volume and Top 26 beverage markets represented 78% of our global beverages volume. Results reflect the exclusion of Be & Cheery portfolio

3. As of 2023, Top 23 convenient foods markets represented 86% of our global convenient foods volume and Top 26 beverage markets represented 78% of our global beverages volume. Results reflect the exclusion of Be & Cheery portfolio

4. As of 2024, Top 23 convenient foods markets represented 86% of our global convenient foods volume and Top 26 beverage markets represented 78% of our global beverages volume. Results reflect the exclusion of Be & Cheery portfolio

5. Our global results are based on our Top 26 beverage markets

6. Our global results are based on our Top 23 convenient foods markets. Refer to the Nutrition ESG Topics A-Z page for complete list of food categories

7. Results reflect the exclusion of the Be & Cheery portfolio and the Dairy and Baby Food categories in Russia and Ukraine. As of 2023, the Top 23 convenient foods markets accounted for 84% of our total global convenient foods volume, adjusted for these exclusions

8. Results reflect the exclusion of the Be & Cheery portfolio and the Dairy and Baby Food categories in Russia and Ukraine. As of 2024, the Top 23 convenient foods markets accounted for 84% of our total global convenient foods volume, adjusted for these exclusions

9. Based on published dietary guidelines for select countries, WHO Healthy Diet Fact Sheet and Eat Lancet Planetary Healthy Diet report

10. Metric restated in 2024 to exclude 6.5 billion portions of corn previously reported as whole grain in 2023

Brands with positive impact

With the scale and reach of our iconic brands — like Lay’s®, Pepsi®, Doritos®, Gatorade®, Quaker® and SodaStream® — we aim to inspire choices that have a positive impact on the planet, our communities and our consumers.

Our positive brands strategy strives to build stronger connections with our consumers — inspiring millions of people through our brand experiences, creative campaigns, leveraging transformative technology to move quickly and meet heightened expectations and designing immersive experiences that aim to bring communities together.

Approach

People are at the center of our approach — from the stories we elevate in our brand campaigns to the collaborations we pursue to help execute community impact initiatives.

Guiding our efforts is our positive marketing strategy, which focuses on three ambitions:

Transform, champion and accelerate the growth of our Positive Choices portfolio.
Design our portfolio and marketing activities to be more sustainable and inclusive from the start — minimizing our environmental impacts while better connecting our brands with the people we serve.
Inspire consumers to choose sustainable brands and adopt sustainable behaviors.

Underlying our strategy is the intent to be transparent. To build and maintain trust with our consumers, our brand initiatives must be authentic to the markets in which they’re activated and supported by measurable action. Part of being transparent also means adopting clear labeling on our foods and drinks — these are opportunities to enable consumers to learn how the ingredients in the foods and drinks they consume were grown, prepared and packaged as well as learn about our vision to create a world where packaging never becomes waste.

Goals & progress

Brands with positive impact goal

Many of our consumer brands seek to make a positive impact.

Pepsi®, Lay’s®, Doritos® and Gatorade®

PepsiCo brands Pepsi®, Lay’s®, Doritos® and Gatorade® continued to partner with UEFA to implement circular economy practices at the 2024 UEFA Champions League Finals events. We expanded our sustainability efforts with returnable cups and trays across fan zones and concessions in London. Pepsi® and Rockstar® Energy Drink brought sustainable practice into the fan experience in a simple, fun and rewarding way to reduce waste. By prioritizing ease-of-use solutions, we’re turning sustainability into an engaging part of the celebration.

Lay’s® RePlay

In 2024, Lay’s® RePlay unveiled its 11th community football pitch in Bilbao, Spain, just ahead of the UEFA Women’s Champions League Final. Designed to support young talent through sport, the pitch launch marked the latest chapter in Lay’s® RePlay program—an initiative that combines social impact and sustainability by transforming used chip bags into community football pitches. With over 1,500 participants reached monthly through 8,000 hours of programming, and another 2,300 benefiting through broader community access, Lay’s®RePlay continues to expand its global footprint—now spanning South Africa to Mexico—helping young people build skills, confidence and connection through play.

Image of two girls' soccer teams playing a game

Three women sitting around a table having coffee

Marias Gamesa®

Marias Gamesa® is helping Latina moms be seen and supported with the return of its Cafecito con Marias Gamesa® campaign in partnership with Super Mamás podcast to offer a virtual space for moms to connect, share and prioritize themselves. Inspired by insights showing that 70% of Latina moms often feel too overwhelmed to call their own mothers, the campaign’s “Márcale a Mamá” (“Call Mom”) message encourages reconnection. The effort also features the Marias Gamesa® Squad, a group of Latina creators sharing authentic stories of motherhood to inspire community and conversation.

Gatorade®

Launched globally in 2024, Gatorade®’s Fuel Tomorrow platform is designed to tackle the barriers that keep young people out of sports, aiming to help 2.5 million teens around the world access the life-changing power of sport by 2030. In 2024, Gatorade® expanded its Confidence Coaches campaign to spotlight how low confidence can lead some girls to drop out of sports. Gatorade® also brought together 25,000 teens globally participating in its 5v5 tournament and a chance to play the final matches at the UEFA Finals.