A lemon-lime soft drink or lemon-lime soda, also known colloquially as
lemonade in the
United Kingdom
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,
Australia
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and
New Zealand
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and as
cider
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in
Japan
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and
Korea
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, is a carbonated
soft drink
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A drink or beverage is a liquid intended for human consumption. In addition to their basic function of satisfying thirst, drinks play important roles in human culture. Common t ...
with
lemon and
lime flavoring. Popular brands include
Sprite,
7 Up, and
Sierra Mist.
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
PepsiCo
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in 2017
India
*
Citra – a clear lemon and lime flavoured soda sold in
India
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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
*
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 East Asian use of "cider" refers to a very different drink from that typically referred to in English: the basic ...
*
Ramune
Korea
*
Chilsung Cider
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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 c ...
Sweden
*
Fruktsoda
Fruktsoda (Swedish for: ''fruit soda'') is a lemon-lime flavored soft drink from Sweden, similar to 7 Up and Sprite. Fruktsoda is made by various breweries
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at wh ...
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 M ...
*
Sierra Mist
*
Green River
*
Kick – produced by
Royal Crown Company, Inc. and developed in 1965, it was discontinued in North America in 2002 when Royal Crown was acquired by
Cadbury Schweppes plc through its acquisition of
Snapple.
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*Summit Citrus Twist – a clear lemon and lime flavored soda sold in the United States
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by Aldi
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*Up-Rite - Made by the ShopRite retail chain
* Prime
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*Dr. Enuf
Dr. Enuf is a brand of soft drink bottled by Tri-City Beverage in Johnson City, Tennessee....... It is a lemon-lime flavored drink (though its taste is different from common lemon-lime sodas such as Sprite or 7 Up), and is fortified with sever ...
* Slice
* Storm
* Sun Crest – 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). Uppe ...
Tunisia
* Boga
Turkey
* Uludağ Gazoz
* Fruko
* Çamlıca Gazoz
* Niğde Gazoz
Other
* Est Cola
* 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
* Lift
* Quwat Jabal Quwat Jabal is a citrus-flavored carbonated soft drink sold in the Middle East. It is produced by Coca-Cola.
It is lemon lime flavored, made with real lemon and lime juice
A lime (from French ''lime'', from Arabic ''līma'', from Persian ' ...
– sold in the Middle East and produced by The Coca-Cola Company
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* Solo
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Arts and entertainment Comics
* ''Solo'' (DC Comics), a DC comics series
* Solo, a 1996 mini-series from Dark Horse Comics
Characters
* Han Solo, a ''Star Wars'' character
* Jacen Solo, a Jedi in the non-canonical ''S ...
* Teem
Teem is a brand of lemon-lime-flavored soft drink produced by The Pepsi-Cola Company. It was introduced in 1959 as Pepsi's answer to 7 Up and Sprite.
Overview
In the pre-planning stages, Teem was known as “Duet”, however due to a potenti ...
See also
* Lemon-lime soda cocktail
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* List of brand name soft drinks products
This article is a list of brand name soft drink products. In some cases, the relevant article is the parent brand or brand family.
By company
Coca-Cola Company
* Ambasa
* Ameyal
* Appletiser
* Aquarius
*Barq's
*Beat
* Beverly (discontinue ...
* 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 ...
* List of soft drink producers
In every area of the world there are major soft drink producers. However, a few major North American companies are present in most of the countries of the world, such as Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
Producers by region
North America
* The Coca-Cola ...
* List of soft drinks by country
This is a list of soft drinks in order of the brand's country of origin. A soft drink is a beverage that typically contains water (often carbonated water), a sweetener and a flavoring agent. The sweetener may be sugar, high-fructose ...
* Lemonade
* Limeade
* Bitter lemon
Bitter lemon is a bitter lemon flavoured soft drink. Its signature taste is a result of inherently bitter lemon pith being reinforced by the bitter alkaloid quinine.
The principal difference between tonic water and bitter lemon is the lemon ...
* Lemon, lime and bitters
Lemon, lime and bitters (LLB) is a mixed drink made with (clear) lemonade (Sprite etc.), lime cordial, and Angostura bitters. The lemonade is sometimes substituted with soda water or lemon squash, which is more akin to what is called "lemona ...
* List of citrus soft drinks
References
{{Citrus sodas
Soft drinks
Lists of brand name drinks