A lemon-lime soft drink or lemon-lime soda, also known colloquially as

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in the

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, is a carbonated

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with

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flavoring. Popular brands include Sprite,

7 Up 7 Up (stylized as 7up outside North America) is an American brand of lemon-lime-flavored non-caffeinated soft drink. The brand and formula are owned by Keurig Dr Pepper although the beverage is internationally distributed by PepsiCo. 7 Up comp ...

, and

Sierra Mist Sierra Mist is a lemon-lime flavored soft drink line. Originally introduced by PepsiCo in 1999, it was eventually made available in all United States markets by 2003. The drink was rebranded as "Mist Twist" in 2016, although it reverted to Sie ...

Description

Lemon-lime soft drinks are typically colorless, however cloudy varieties such as Limca are also available. Similar in appearance and flavor to the clear variety of lemonade found in the UK and Australia, lemon-lime soft drinks are often packaged in green bottles to better distinguish them from soda water.

Brands

Global

* Sprite *

7UP 7 Up (stylized as 7up outside North America) is an American brand of lemon-lime-flavored non-caffeinated soft drink. The brand and formula are owned by Keurig Dr Pepper although the beverage is internationally distributed by PepsiCo. 7 Up comp ...

Mountain Dew Mountain Dew, stylized as Mtn Dew, is a carbonated soft drink brand produced and owned by PepsiCo. The original formula was invented in 1940 by Tennessee beverage bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman. A revised formula was created by Bill Brid ...

Ice introduced by

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in 2017

India

* Citra – a clear lemon and lime flavoured soda sold in

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in the 1980s and early 1990s. *

Banta Banta Soda, or Banta, also Goli Soda or Goti Soda and Fotash Jawl, is a popular carbonated lemon or orange-flavoured soft drink sold in India since the late 19th century in a distinctly shaped iconic Codd-neck bottle. The pressure created by t ...

– packaged in a

codd-neck bottle A Codd-neck bottle (more commonly known as a Codd bottle or a marble bottle) is a type of bottle used for carbonated drinks. It has a closing design based on a glass marble which is held against a rubber seal, which sits within a recess in the lip ...

Limca Limca is an Indian multinational brand of lemon- and lime-flavoured carbonated soft drink made primarily in India and certain parts of the U.S. It contains 60 calories per 150ml can. The formula does not include fruit, relying instead on arti ...

* Nimbooz

Japan

Mitsuya Cider is a Japanese carbonated soft drink, created in 1884 and acquired by Asahi Soft Drinks in 1972. While branded as a "cider", the Cider#East Asia, East Asian use of "cider" refers to a very different drink from that typically referred to in Eng ...

Ramune () is a Japanese carbonated soft drink. It was introduced in 1884 in Kobe by the British pharmacist Alexander Cameron Sim. Like Banta, an Indian lemon drink, is available in a Codd-neck bottle, a heavy glass bottle whose mouth is sealed by a ...

Korea

Chilsung Cider Lotte Chilsung Beverage Co., Ltd. is one of the largest drink manufacturers in South Korea and is part of the Lotte Corporation. The name ''Chilsung'' (''chilseong'', , ) means "Big Dipper" (literally seven stars), and the company's logo is an e ...

Sri Lanka

* Elephant House Lemonade

Denmark

Faxe Kondi Faxe Kondi is a Danish soft drink produced by Royal Unibrew. Marketed as a sports drink, as it contains both glucose and sugar. Faxe Kondi has been produced since 1971. Originally it was sold in beer bottles, because Faxe Bryggeri was a beer com ...

Sweden

Fruktsoda Fruktsoda (Swedish for: ''fruit soda'') is a lemon-lime flavored soft drink from Sweden, similar to 7 Up 7 Up (stylized as 7up outside North America) is an American brand of lemon-lime-flavored non-caffeinated soft drink. The brand and fo ...

Ukraine

*Premyera Lymon (Прем'єра Лимон) *Biola Quake (Біола Квейк)

United States

Bubble Up Bubble Up is a lemon-lime soft drink brand created in 1919, by Sweet Valley Products Co. of Sandusky, Ohio. It is now manufactured by the Dad's Root Beer Company, LLC and owned by Hedinger Brands, LLC for the United States, Canada, and Mexico ...

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– produced by Royal Crown Company, Inc. and developed in 1965, it was discontinued in North America in 2002 when Royal Crown was acquired by

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through its acquisition of

Snapple Snapple is a brand of tea and juice drinks which is owned by Keurig Dr Pepper and based in Plano, Texas, United States. The company (and brand), which was originally known as Unadulterated Food Products, was founded in 1972. The brand achieved som ...

.RC Cola website – Internet Archive, Dec. 29, 2001.
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/ref> *Summit Citrus Twist – a clear lemon and lime flavored soda sold in the

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*Up-Rite - Made by the ShopRite retail chain *

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Sun Crest Sun Crest. is a brand of flavored carbonated soft drink manufactured by The Dad's Root Beer Company, LLC. of Jasper, Indiana and owned by Hedinger Brands, LLC, except for 6 countries in Asia owned by The Monarch Beverage Company, Inc. of Atlanta ...

– introduced in 1938 *

Upper 10 Upper 10 is a caffeine free drink lemon-lime soft drink, similar to Sprite, Sierra Mist, and Bubble Up. It was bottled by RC Cola. The Upper 10 brand debuted in 1933 as a product of the Nehi Corporation (later Royal Crown Corporation). Upper 1 ...

Tunisia

* Boga

Turkey

Uludağ Gazoz Uludağ Gazoz (colloquial often called uludağ for short) is a soft drink of the Turkish manufacturer Erbak-Uludağ İçecek A.Ş. located in Bursa. The carbonated lemonade (Gazoz) is also known in other countries. The brand name dates back to t ...

* Fruko * Çamlıca Gazoz * Niğde Gazoz

Other

Est Cola Est (stylized as est; th, เอส) Cola is a cola soft drink from Thailand, manufactured by Sermsuk Public Company Limited. It was launched on 2 November 2012. It was created following the termination of the company's contract with PepsiCo, ...

Lemonsoda Lemonsoda is a brand of Italian carbonated soft drinks created in the 1940s by Milan-based company Saga and currently owned by Royal Unibrew. History The original Lemonsoda flavor was lemon. Oransoda and Pelmosoda, orange and grapefruit-flavore ...

- Italian *

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* Quwat Jabal – sold in the Middle East and produced by

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Teem Teem is a brand of Lemon-lime drink, lemon-lime-flavored soft drink produced by PepsiCo, The Pepsi-Cola Company. It was introduced in 1959 as Pepsi's answer to 7 Up and Sprite (drink), Sprite. Overview In the pre-planning stages, Teem was known ...

References

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