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Coca-Cola with Lemon

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Coca-Cola with Lemon
File:Lemon Coke bottle.jpg
TypeLemon-flavored Cola
ManufacturerThe Coca-Cola Company
Country of origin United Kingdom
Introduced2001
Discontinued2005 (United Kingdom)
VariantsDiet Coke with Lemon
Related productsCoca-Cola with Lime

Coca-Cola with Lemon is a soft drink brand owned by The Coca-Cola Company, launched to compete with Pepsi Twist. It is produced and distributed by The Coca-Cola Company's bottlers. Diet Coke with Lemon was introduced in the United States in 2001 and is still available as a semi-sugar free version in Coca-Cola Freestyle machines.

Production and distribution

Coca-Cola Light with Lemon is still available in:

  • American Samoa
  • Hong Kong
  • Macau
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • China
  • Denmark
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • France
  • Germany
  • Iceland
  • Luxembourg
  • Mongolia
  • Netherlands
  • New Caledonia
  • Portugal
  • Philippines
  • Korea
  • Japan
  • Reunion
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Ukraine
  • Tunisia
  • West Bank-Gaza

Coca-Cola Light with Lemon has been discontinued in:

  • Norway (2005)
  • Australia (returned in November 2013 and sold for limited time only until discontinued)
  • Brazil (as Coke light lemon, discontinued in late 2004)
  • Mexico
  • New Zealand
  • Ireland
  • United Kingdom (as Diet Coke with Lemon discontinued early 2006)
  • Chile
  • Sweden
  • Finland
  • Israel

A bottle of Coca-cola with Lemon is known to be 3 times as sour as the equivalent weight of real lemons.[1]

References

  1. ^ Bogin, Eitan (1966). "Organic acid synthesis and accumulation in sweet and sour lemon fruits". Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles-Plant Science.