Coca-Cola Clear is a colorless variant of the
soft drink
A soft drink (see § Terminology for other names) is a drink that usually contains water (often carbonated), a sweetener, and a natural and/or artificial flavoring. The sweetener may be a sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, fruit juice, a su ...
Coca-Cola. Without the normal caramel ingredient, Coca-Cola Clear has none of the typical dark Coke color. The drink is lemon-flavored to compensate for the removed caramel. It was developed at Coca-Cola Asia Pacific and launched locally in Japan in June 2018. A lime-flavored variation was released on June 10, 2019, known as Coca-Cola Clear Lime. Unlike regular Coca-Cola Clear, which is sweetened with both
sucralose
Sucralose is an artificial sweetener and sugar substitute. The majority of ingested sucralose is not broken down by the body, so it is noncaloric. In the European Union, it is also known under the E number E955. It is produced by chlorination of ...
and
acesulfame potassium, Coca-Cola Clear Lime is instead sweetened with
high-fructose corn syrup.
Production and distribution
Coca-Cola Clear is officially available in Japan but is also available in Taiwan and China through specialty import outlets.
See also
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Crystal Pepsi
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White Coke
White Coke ( rus, Бесцветная кока-кола, r=Bestsvetnaya koka-kola, "colorless Coca-Cola") was a clear variant of Coca-Cola produced in the 1940s at the request of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov. Like other clear ...
References
Coca-Cola brands
Food and drink introduced in 2018
Lemon sodas
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