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Functional drinks and seasonal offerings are abound in this week’s new beverage launches, including limited edition flavors from Aura Bora and nutpods, plant-based mushroom drinks from Lifeway and a new medical-grade meal replacement via Kate Farms.

Rising costs and inflation pressures have softened PepsiCo’s full-year guidance for 2022 below analysts’ predictions, even as the company beat revenue expectations in its Q4 2021 earnings report, released this morning.

A rebound in the away-from-home business helped The Coca-Cola Company to beat analysts’ revenue projections for Q4 2021, even as lingering supply chain questions means an asynchronous recovery.

The U.K.-based sparkling water company had shuttered its business in Great Britain last year in order to focus on growing in the U.S., but the brand’s website is no longer accepting orders at this time.

Non-alcoholic beverage sales remained elevated and saw modest acceleration on a one-year basis, with sales up 10.3% in the two-week period ending January 29, according to an analysis of NielsenIQ data by Goldman Sachs Equity Research.

Nestlé’s San Pellegrino is making a new marketing push by signing actor Stanley Tucci to a multi-year contract as its new ambassador and the star of an ad campaign kicking off this fall.

It’s been a longstanding trope of science fiction media that future technology will allow people to produce any food or drink they want on demand. Although it might be a while before we dine Star Trek style, California-based startup Cana Technology believes an era when we can “print” any beverage we want, anytime, at home, is just about here.

Plant-based protein drink maker Koia announced today it has partnered with keto diet influencer Thomas DeLauer, appointing the author and YouTube personality to the role of Chief Keto Officer, as well as launching a limited time collaboration flavor: Keto Raspberry Lava Cake.