In reply to Gert.

You have identified one of the key concerns about this ingredient list for the Minute Maid Lemonade carton; we have been seeing a lot of sugar or high fructose corn syrup sweetened items which also include Artificial Sweeteners. It's alarming because it is a new trend; there did not used to be Artificial Sweeteners in items sweetened with Sugar or HFCS. We have been collecting examples of this activity and will be doing a review soon.

As to why Coca-Cola does this?? The inclusion of these Sweeteners may be for many reasons such as improved taste ( a quantitative test may reveal the Lemonade tastes better to more people when these Artificial Sweeteners are included), financial ingredient cost analysis (sub some of the HFCS with tiny amounts of Sucalrose and Acesulefame Potassium to save a little money), and the company knows that any negative risk associated with using these ingredients is minor since the majority of consumers will not notice nor object to the presence of these Artificial Sweeteners . . . except the readers of ConsumerWorld.org :)