Addison Rae was among a trio of opening acts announced just ahead of Lana Del Rey's U.K. and Ireland stadium run, a short ...

Diet Pepsi is finally giving aspartame the heave-ho. Spurred by falling sales and consumer safety concerns, PepsiCo North America Beverages announced on Friday that an aspartame-free Diet Pepsi ...

Pepsi initially ditched its diet recipe that replaced aspartame with sucralose, but it didn't go over well with Diet Pepsi loyalists so now it's bringing the original recipe back.

On both nights, Del Rey tapped Addison Rae as her opener, and also on both nights, Rae joined Del Rey during the main set.

"Diet cola drinkers in the U.S. told us they wanted aspartame-free Diet Pepsi and we're delivering," Seth Kaufman, SVP Pepsi and Flavors Portfolio, PepsiCo North America Beverages, said in a release.

Diet Pepsi will also still have acesulfame potassium, or ace-K, which PepsiCo said it added to the drink in late 2012 to help prevent its taste from degrading over time.

For now, Diet Pepsi remains the No. 7 carbonated soft drink with 4.9% of the market, according to Beverage Digest. That's down from 5.3% in 2000. Meanwhile, Diet Coke's share has increased in that ...

Even though they're made by the same brand and serve a similar purpose, each drink has a different formula. Diet Pepsi came first. It's been around since the 1960s and uses aspartame as its sweetener.

Diet Pepsi without aspartame hits shelves 00:30. A revamped Diet Pepsi without aspartame is popping up on store shelves. So will people start flocking back to the soda?

PepsiCo is bringing back its aspartame-sweetened Diet Pepsi, and will now offer two versions of Diet Pepsi, in an attempt to stave off falling diet cola sales. Photo: PepsiCo. PepsiCo Inc. spent ...

First, the bad news: They’re both artificial. PepsiCo Inc. said Monday that it will bring back aspartame-sweetened Diet Pepsi in the U.S. in September ; aspartame is a diet sweetener typically ...

PepsiCo is removing aspartame from Diet Pepsi, in a bid to energize diet cola sales. WSJ’s Betsy Morris reports. Photo: Getty PepsiCo Inc. said Friday it would remove the sweetener aspartame ...