Providing Choices and Promoting Habits for Healthy Living

We are continually looking for ways to offer a variety of choices. We are also committed to helping Americans lead healthier lives including:

• Providing more food and beverage choices that contribute to healthy lifestyles and making it easier for people to identify those choices
• Promoting healthy lifestyles for Americans
• Seeking the best healthy lifestyle advice

Smart choices made easy

PepsiCo has introduced the Smart Spot™ symbol to make it easier for people to identify food and beverage choices that contribute to healthy lifestyles. The Smart Spot logo appears on more than 300 products across all of PepsiCo’s brands including Tropicana®, Gatorade®, Baked! Lay’s®, Quaker® and Diet Pepsi®.

Products with the Smart Spot designation meet nutrition criteria based on authoritative statements from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Academy of Sciences.

The Smart Spot criteria include limits for the amount of fat-including saturated and trans fats-cholesterol, sodium and added sugars, as well as call out products that contribute fiber, vitamins or other important nutrients. The criteria also identify products reduced in ingredients such as fat or sugar or products formulated to have specific health or wellness benefits.

The back of all Smart Spot products explains why the product has earned the Smart Spot designation. Going forward, PepsiCo expects at least half of its U.S. new product revenues to come from products carrying the Smart Spot symbol.

More product choices

PepsiCo is launching new products that meet Smart Spot criteria and reviewing existing products to determine how they can be improved to enhance their nutrition profiles. A few examples are listed below:

• PepsiCo eliminated trans fats from the entire line of Frito-Lay-brand snacks in 2003.
• Tropicana® Light ’n Healthy, an orange juice beverage, has 1/2 less sugar and calories of orange juice.