Orange soft drinks (called orange pop or orange soda in certain regions of the United States and Canada, orangeade in the UK, or the

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Orangina Orangina () is a lightly carbonated beverage made from carbonated water, 12% citrus juice (10% from concentrated orange, 2% from a combination of concentrated lemon, concentrated mandarin, and concentrated grapefruit juices), as well as 2% orang ...

in France) are carbonated

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s. Non-carbonated orange drinks, i.e. the orange-juice-flavored equivalent of lemonade, is also made, with brands such as Minute Maid, and blends like cherry orangeade and lemon-orangeade are also made in some places, with recipes being commonly available. Orange soft drinks (especially those without orange juice) often contain very high levels of

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, and this often imparts a slight metallic taste to the beverage. Other additives commonly found in orange soft drinks include glycerol ester of wood rosin,

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, and

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History

''Orangeade'' first appeared as a variety of carbonated drink provided in

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s in American

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s in the late 19th century, brands including Miner's and Lash's. A recipe for homemade orangeade appears in editions of

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's cookbook.

List of brands

* Appelsín, a popular soft drink from

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* Aranciata from San Pellegrino *

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* Asina Orange Soda from Norway * Barr Orangeade * Cactus Cooler (orange-pineapple) *

Cadbury Schweppes Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company fully owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) since 2010. It is the second largest confectionery brand in the world after Mars ...

* Celeste soda orange soda * Cplus orange soda (Canada) * Crush *

Dr. Brown's Dr. Brown's is a brand of soft drink made by J & R Bottling. It is popular in the New York City region and South Florida, but it can also be found in Jewish delicatessens and upscale supermarkets around the United States and in English-speaking ...

orange soda * Donald Duck orange soda *

Fanta Fanta is an American-owned German brand of fruit-flavored carbonated soft drinks created by Coca-Cola Deutschland under the leadership of German businessman Max Keith. There are more than 200 flavors worldwide. Fanta originated in Germany as ...

Faygo Faygo Beverages, Inc., is a soft drink company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. The beverages produced by the company, branded as Faygo or Faygo Pop, are distributed in the Midwestern, Mid-Atlantic, and Central Southern regions of the United ...

* Frost King * Golf Orange is a local orange soft drink brand from Serbia produced by Knjaz Miloš. * Gold Spot (India) * Green Spot (soft drink) * Hellena

Oranżada Oranżada () is a Polish term for carbonated soft drinks. The origins of the word come from the 18th century, when carbonated orange soft drinks made of water, sugar, and orange syrup were introduced from France. Today, it is mostly associated wi ...

, Poland *

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, popular in Sweden and Finland *

Jarritos Jarritos is a brand of soft drink in Mexico, founded in 1950 by Don Francisco "El Güero" Hill and now owned by Novamex, a large independent bottling conglomerate based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, property of the Hill & ac. Co. It is also dis ...

, Barrilitos and other Mexican soft drink brands make orange- or mandarina-flavored soda. * Jianlibao（Chinese sport drink populated during 1980s and 1990s） * Jones Soda Co. * Kas Naranja (made by

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in Spain, Mexico, and France) *

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orange soda made in Chicago, Illinois *

Lorina Lorina is a company that produces soft drinks. It was founded by Victor Geyer in 1895 in Munster, France, and was acquired by Royal Unibrew of Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and ...

Minute Maid Minute Maid is a product line of beverages, usually associated with lemonade or orange juice, but which now extends to soft drinks of different kinds, including Hi-C. Minute Maid is sold under the Cappy brand in Central Europe and under the bra ...

orange soda (bottled by

Coca-Cola Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company. Originally marketed as a temperance drink and intended as a patent medicine, it was invented in the late 19th century by John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta ...

) * Mirinda Orange *

MiWadi MiWadi is an Irish soft drink brand owned by Britvic, and formerly by Cantrell and Cochrane (C&C), bottled in Dublin, Cork and Belfast. Its name comes from the initial letters of C&C's predecessor company, Mineral Water Distributors, which was ...

Mountain Dew LiveWire Mountain Dew, a citrus-flavored carbonated soft drink now owned by PepsiCo, has had numerous branded flavor variants since the original formula's creation in 1940. Notable flavor variants include Diet Mountain Dew, Code Red, LiveWire, Baja Blast, V ...

(made by Pepsi) * Naranjada (made by

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) *

Nehi Nehi (pronounced "knee high") is a flavored soft drink that originated in the United States. It was introduced in 1924 by Chero-Cola/Union Bottle Works and founded by Claud A. Hatcher, a Columbus, Georgia grocer who began bottling ginger ale a ...

Nesbitt's Nesbitt's is a brand of orange-flavored soft drink sold in the United States. Nesbitt's was originally produced by the Nesbitt Fruit Products Company of Los Angeles, California. The company also produced several other flavors of soft drink und ...

* Orange Cheerio (Japan) * Orange Dream (made by

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) * Orangette (marketed by

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) *

* Royal Crown * Royal Tru-Orange (Philippines) * Schin Laranja (Orange soda bottled by

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in Brazil) *

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(Netherlands) * Slice *

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(Norway) * Stewart's Orange'n Cream * Sukita (Brazil) * Sumol (Portugal) * Sunkist *

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* TruAde *

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(Danish orange flavored soda bottled by Carlsberg) * Whistle * Yedigün (made by

in Turkey) * Zingo

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History

List of brands

See also

References