Coca-Cola BlāK

Coca-Cola BlāK

Type	Coffee flavored Cola
Manufacturer	The Coca-Cola Company
Country of origin	France
Introduced	mid-2006
Discontinued	2008
Related products	BibiCaffe; Pepsi coffee drinks including Kona (Pennsylvania, 1994-1996), Tarik (Malaysia), Max Cappuccino (France, Finland, Norway, Ireland and the UK), and Cappuccino (India, Eastern Europe, Mexico, some Central American), Future Coffee Cola (China)

Coca-Cola BlāK was a coffee-flavored soft drink introduced by Coca-Cola in 2006 and discontinued in 2008. The mid-calorie drink was introduced first in France, before making its way to the United States and other markets.

Coca-Cola BlāK launched in the United States on April 3, 2006. Coca-Cola BlāK launched in Canada on August 29, 2006 with an event staged in Toronto, Ontario at Dundas Square offering free bottles of the product. On 31 August 2007, trade magazine Beverage Digest announced that Coca-Cola would discontinue the drink's sale within the United States once concentrate supplies ran out.

In February 2007, the drink made its way to Central Europe as it launched in the Czech Republic. French produced Coca-Cola BlāK could also be found in Poland, Slovakia, in some stores in Lithuania and in E.Leclerc stores in Slovenia.

The French and Canadian versions of Coca-Cola BlāK were sweetened only with sugar. The U.S. version of Coca-Cola BlāK replaced sugar with high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, and acesulfame potassium.

Consumer Reports taste-testers found the French version to be less sweet and to contain more coffee flavor.

The American and Canadian versions had a plastic resealable cap on a glass bottle that resembled the classic Coke bottle, whereas the French/Czech version was a bottle shape formed from aluminum.

In 2010, Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America, released in Mexico coffee dispenser machines under the brand name BlāK.

Nutritional facts

US Version Coke BlāK (240mL/8 fl. oz) Coke Classic (240mL/8 fl. oz) Calories 45 97 Total Fat 0g 0 g Sodium 35 mg 33 mg Total Carb. 13 g 27 g Sugars 12 g 27 g Protein 0 g 0 g Caffeine 46 mg 23 mg

French Version Coke BlāK (100mL/3.4 fl. oz) Coke Classic (100mL/3.4 fl. oz) Calories 84 kJ/20 kcal 180 kJ/42 kcal Total Fat 0 g 0 g Sodium <50 mg <50 mg Total Carb. 5 g 10.6 g Sugars 5 g 10.6 g Protein 0 g 0 g Caffeine 20 mg

See also

• Coffee-flavored Pepsi
• Syrup (novel), featuring a plot revolving around a fictional but similar product

References

• Coca-Cola BlāK to make its worldwide debut The Coca-Cola Company, 2005-12-07

External links

• Coca-Cola gives out thousands of Coke BlāK samples in Times Square