List of soft drink flavors

A soft drink is a beverage that typically contains carbonated water, one or more flavourings and sweeteners such as sugar, HFCS, fruit juices, and/or sugar substitutes such as sucralose, acesulfame-K, aspartame and cyclamate. Soft drinks may also contain caffeine, colorings, preservatives and other ingredients.

A glass of cola served with ice cubes and lemon

Flavors
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Melon soda
Anjola is a brand of pineapple-flavored soda
A glass of Raspberryade (as named and marketed by A.G. Barr in the U.K.)
  • Almond – common mixed flavor in many drinks, also the primary flavor for brands like Suburban Club sodas such as Almond Smash. Almond-flavored soft drinks are sometimes prepared using orgeat syrup.[1]
  • Apple – Fassbrause is a non-alcoholic or alcoholic (depending on the brand) German drink made from fruit and spices and malt extract, traditionally stored in a keg. It often has an apple flavor. Apple Beer is a non-alcoholic American variant of fassbrause, produced by The Apple Beer Corporation in Salt Lake City. Aspen Soda was an apple-flavored soda sold across the United States by PepsiCo from 1978 until 1982. In 1984, PepsiCo came out with a replacement apple soda under its new Slice line.
  • Apricot
  • Birch Beer
  • Blackberry – like those made by Izze
  • Brazil nut
  • Butterscotch – brands of butterscotch-flavored soda include O-SO Butterscotch Root Beer produced by Orca Beverage Inc., Dang Butterscotch root beer
  • Celery – Cel-Ray produced by Dr. Brown's of New York City
  • Champagne cola – class of sodas, with a color lighter than cola and darker than cream soda, and flavors similar to both
  • Cherry cola – brands include Coca-Cola Cherry, Pepsi Wild Cherry, and Cherry RC, among others.
  • Cherry soda[2] – brands of cherry-flavored soda include 7 Up, Cherikee Red, IBC Black Cherry, and Crush, among others.
  • Cherryade – soft drinks prepared with cherry juice.
  • Chocolate[2] – for example, Canfield's Diet Chocolate Fudge and Yoo-hoo
  • Citron – an example is Cedrata Tassoni, an Italian, citron-flavored soft drink brand
  • Clementine – made by Izze
  • Cola – originally contained caffeine from the kola nut and cocaine from coca leaves, and was flavored with vanilla and other ingredients. Most colas now use other flavoring (and caffeinating) ingredients with a similar taste and no longer contain cocaine. It became popular worldwide after pharmacist John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola in 1886.[3]
  • Cranberry – previously from Sprite and Izze
  • Cream soda[2] – often flavored with vanilla, such as Big Red
  • Cucumber soda[4] – type of soda made by various manufacturers including Mr. Q. Cumber. Pepsi offers an ice cucumber flavor in some markets.
  • Dandelion and burdock – popular favorite within the UK since the middle ages. Popular brands include Ben Shaws owned by Cotts of Canada[5]
  • Gentiana – such as Moxie[6]
  • Ginger ale[2][7] – carbonated soft drink flavored with ginger in one of two ways. The golden style is closer to the ginger beer original, and is credited to the American doctor Thomas Cantrell. The dry style (also called the pale style) is a paler drink with a much milder ginger-flavor to it, and was created by Canadian John McLaughlin.
  • Ginger beer – produced in two versions: brewed ginger beer (which includes home-brewed) or a carbonated drink flavored primarily with ginger and sweetened with sugar or artificial sweeteners.
  • Grape soda – grape-flavored soft drinks and sodas
  • Grapefruit – brands of grapefruit-flavored soda include Fresca, Ting, Pelmosoda and Squirt, among others.
  • Guarana – carbonated soft drinks with guarana are produced and marketed in Latin American countries.[8]
  • Guava[9] – such as Jarritos brand
  • Irn-Bru – citrus-based soft drink that is popular in Scotland
  • Lemon[2] – liquid derived from the outer skin of lemons may be used to flavor soft drinks, other beverages and foods.[10] Brands of lemon-flavored soda include Coca-Cola with Lemon, Gini and Solo, among others. "Lemonade" in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, or limonada in Mexico, may refer to carbonated lemon-flavored soda as well as the non-carbonated version.[11]
  • Lemon-lime – common carbonated soft drink flavor, consisting of lemon and lime flavoring, such as 7-up
  • Lemon verbena (Hierba Luisa) – such as Inca Kola
  • Lime – such as limeade
  • Litchi[12]
  • Malt – such as Malta, which is a brewed, carbonated malt beverage that is not fermented, and hence non-alcoholic
  • Mandarin orange – examples include sodas produced by Maine Root Handcrafted Beverages, Slice and Goya
  • Mango[13][14] – such as Jarritos brand
  • Mate – such as Club-Mate, a caffeinated soda made with Yerba Mate extract, based on mate, an infusion of Yerba mate.
  • Melon[15] – Mello Yello produced a melon soda called Mello Yello Melon.[16] It was discontinued. It is a popular flavor in Japan.
  • Mulberry
  • Nectarine – made by Izze
  • Orange soft drink – sometimes referred to as orangeade[2]
  • Papaya – such as the discontinued product by Izze
  • Passionfruit – such as Passiona, sold only in Australia. There was also a brand of Fanta produced in Brazil with the flavor, selected by the customers in a contest.
  • Peach[2] – such as Big Peach or Nehi Peach
  • Pear – such as the previous product by Izze
  • "Pepper" flavor, a proprietary mix of Dr. Pepper, with the original Mr. Pibb positioned as a competitor in this flavor category
  • Pineapple – brands of pineapple-flavored soda include Fanta, Sun Crest and The Pop Shoppe, among others.
  • Pomegranate – such as Hansen's
  • Raspberry – may be referred to as raspberryade in the United Kingdom. Similar soft drinks are also known as raspberry soda in other parts of the world.
  • Root beer – originally made using the root of the sassafras plant (or the bark of a sassafras tree) as the primary flavor.
  • Elder or elderberry – used in soft drinks such as socată
  • Salak is usually used in sodas in Thailand, commonly mistaken for Strawberry
  • Sarsaparilla[2] – originally made from the Smilax regelii plant. Nowadays, sodas with this flavor are sometimes made with artificial flavors.
  • Shirley Temple
  • Spruce beer is a beverage flavored with the buds, needles, or essence of spruce trees. In the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Quebec, it is known in French as bière d'épinette. Spruce beer may refer to either an artificially flavored non-alcoholic carbonated soft drink, or to genuine spruce beer.
  • Strawberry – brands of strawberry-flavored soda include Catawissa Bottling Company, Stewart's Fountain Classics, Goody Strawberry and Vess, among others. Strawberry soda can also be marketed as Red Pop.
  • Tamarind[17] – such as Jarritos Tamarindo
  • Tarragon - for example Tarhun.
  • Watermelon[2][18] – such as Jarritos brand

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See also

References
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