Did Pepsi Ever Cure the Dyspepsia It Was Created to Treat? - MEL Magazine

Early marketing efforts leaned much harder on the soft drink’s alleged abilities to calm indigestion and stomach aches as opposed to Super Halftime shows and Beyonce. The thing is, it might never have had contained the eponymous ingredient to do so

When it first hit the market, Pepsi-Cola was pushed as much as an indigestion remedy as a soda. In fact, multiple advertisements from soda shops in the early 1900s claimed that it would cure a custom… [+4472 chars]

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