Hi-C

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2007 Japanese Hi-C Apple. American Hi-C is 10% juice.

Hi-C is a juice drink made by the Minute Maid division of the Coca-Cola Company. It was originally created at a small company in Austria, 1948. Hi-C contains 10% fruit juice. There are currently 3 product lines of Hi-C - the drink box, Hi-C Blast, and Hi-C Sour Blast.

The Hi-C products used to be the color implied by their flavor, but in 2002, Hi-C was reintroduced as a yellowish clear beverage that would not stain clothing. Thus, flavors like Shoutin' Orange Tangergreen lost their distinctive colors.

Flavors

Hi-C Drink Box

• Blazin' Blueberry
• Boppin' Strawberry
• Ecto Cooler (renamed Shoutin' Orange Tangergreen in 1997, then later renamed Crazy Citrus Cooler in 2005.)
• Flashin' Fruit Punch
• Fruity Bubble Gum (no longer produced)
• Grabbin' Grape
• Orange Lavaburst (Similar to Ecto Cooler, but without tangerine.)
• Peach (no longer produced)
• Poppin' Pink Lemonade
• Smashin' Wild Berry
• Strawberry Kiwi Kraze
• Torrential Tropical Punch
• Wild Cherry
• Frightening Fruit Punch (Halloween edition, released in 2005)

Hi-C Blast

• Berry Blue
• Blue Watermelon
• Fruit Pow
• Fruit Punch
• Orange
• Orange Supernova
• Pink Lemonade
• Raspberry Kiwi
• Strawberry
• Strawberry Kiwi
• Wild Berry

Hi-C Sour Blast

• Green Apple
• Strawberry
• Wild Cherry

Ecto Cooler

Ecto Cooler was product tie-in with the movie Ghostbusters. Hi-C struck a deal in 1984 to promote the movie by developing a drink. Expected to last only as long as the movie, the drink was successful beyond expectations and continued to be produced for the better part of two decades. The Ecto Cooler box featured the Ghostbusters character Slimer, as did the commercials. Slimer left the box sometime around 1997, but Minute Maid did not discontinue the product until 2001, at which point it was renamed Shoutin' Orange Tangergreen. Slimer was replaced on the packaging by a similar-looking blob of lips. Excepting the flavor, the only other unchanged aspect of the product is that it is still being noted as ecto cool on many store receipts.

In 2006, Shoutin' Orange Tangergreen was renamed Crazy Citrus Cooler.

Ecto Cooler is also the nickname of an alcoholic drink that is made by mixing a lemon-lime powder mix with vodka, sugar, water, and ice. [1]

Because of popular demand, mega retailers such as Walmart and Target have agreed to begin restocking this product as of March 2007.

As of April 2007, the product is no longer manufactured.