Coca-Cola Light Sango is a blood-orange flavoured variety of Coca-Cola Light/Diet Coke produced by

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, available in

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since mid-2005. It was the first variety of

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to have been developed outside of the company's

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, headquarters, primarily due to Belgium's reputation as the world's top consumer of Coke Light products per capita. Coke Sango's production is also due, in part, to the success of previous

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-flavoured varieties of Coke Light in

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. Coke Sango's name is based on ''sang'', the French word for

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, in reference to its blood orange flavouring. Produced in France and Belgium, the drink was discontinued in 2008. In early 2018, Coca-Cola released a similar drink for the U.S. and Canada, named "Zesty Blood Orange".The history of Coca-Cola flavours
on Southern Kitchen Other variants of the Diet Coke released that year included lime, mango and cherry.The new Diet Coke is zesty, feisty and so thirsty for millennials’ approval
By MAURA JUDKIS , The Washington Post - January 13, 2018

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