A lemon-lime soft drink or lemon-lime soda (also known as

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) is a carbonated

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with

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and

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flavoring.

Description

Lemon-lime soft drinks are typically colourless; however, coloured varieties such as Limca are also available. Similar in appearance and flavor to the clear varieties 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 *

7 Up 7 Up (stylized as 7UP worldwide) or Seven Up is an American brand of Lemon-lime drink, lemon-lime–flavored non-caffeinated soft drink. The brand and formula are owned by Keurig Dr Pepper, although the beverage is internationally distributed ...

India

* Arora Lemon * Citra – a clear lemon and lime flavored soda sold in

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in the 1980s and early 1990s. *

Banta Banta Soda, or Banta (Hindi: बंटा), 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 ...

– 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 li ...

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 artif ...

* 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 basi ...

Ramune () is a carbonated soft drink served in a Codd-neck bottle. It was introduced in 1884 in Kobe as a carbonated lemonade by the Scottish pharmacist Alexander Cameron Sim. The name is derived from the English word '' lemonade''. History In 1 ...

(First Lemon-Lime Soda)

South Korea

Chilsung Cider Lotte Chilsung Beverage Co., Ltd. () is a drink manufacturer in South Korea affiliated with Lotte Corporation. The company's name, Chilsung (), signifies "Big Dipper" or seven stars, and its logo displays seven stars aligned in a row. History Ch ...

Brazil

* Soda Limonada Antarctica

Mexico

Yoli Yoli is a lime soda produced in Mexico. A regional drink, until recently it was only available in the state of Guerrero and surrounding areas. Yoli was first produced in Taxco, Guerrero by the bottling company Grupo Yoli in 1918. At the time, th ...

Sri Lanka

* Elephant House Lemonade

Denmark

Faxe Kondi Faxe Kondi is a Danish soft drink produced by Royal Unibrew through Faxe Bryggeri since 1971. Originally it was sold in beer bottles, as Faxe Bryggeri was primarily a beer brewing company. It is marketed as a sports drink. There is also a lig ...

Sweden

Fruktsoda is a lemon-lime flavored soft drink from Sweden, similar to 7 Up and Sprite. Fruktsoda is made by various breweries in Sweden. It is also a popular ingredient in cocktail A cocktail is a mixed drink, usually alcoholic beverage, alcoholic ...

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 Mexi ...

* B1 * Green River *

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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, based in Plano, Texas, United States. The original producer of Snapple, a company that was known as Unadulterated Food Products, was founded in 1972. The brand achieved ...

.RC Cola website – Internet Archive, Dec. 29, 2001.
/ref>Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc. website – Internet Archive, Sep. 23, 2002.
/ref> * Summit Citrus Twist – a clear lemon and lime flavored soda sold in the

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* Up-Rite – Made by the

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retail chain *

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* Drink-Up (hurry drink-up it’s later than you think) 1955 *

Dr. Enuf Dr. Enuf is an American 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.) Dr. Enuf is forti ...

* Starry * Slice *

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Sierra Mist Sierra Mist was a lemon-lime flavored soft drink line introduced by PepsiCo in 1999. By 2003, it was available in all US markets. The name is a play on Mountain Dew: "sierra" is the Spanish word for "mountain range" and both mist and dew are c ...

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

– introduced in 1938 *

Upper 10 Upper 10 is a caffeine-free drink lemon-lime soft drink, similar to Sprite, Starry, 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 10 w ...

Uruguay

Limol Limol - 1910

Tunisia

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Türkiye

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 ...

* Fruko * Çamlıca Gazoz * Niğde Gazoz

Other

Lemonsoda Lemonsoda is a brand of Italy, Italian carbonated soft drink, soft drinks created in the 1940s by Milan-based company Saga (company), Saga and currently owned by Royal Unibrew. History The original Lemonsoda flavor was lemon. Oransoda and Pelmo ...

– Italian *

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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 is a citrus fruit, which is typically round, lime green in col ...

– sold in the Middle East and produced by

The Coca-Cola Company The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational corporation founded in 1892. It manufactures, sells and markets soft drinks including Coca-Cola, other non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, and alcoholic beverages. Its stock is lis ...

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Teem Teem is a brand of carbonated soft drink introduced by PepsiCo in 1959 as a lemon-lime-flavored competitor of 7 Up. It was discontinued and delisted in the US in 1984. Teem is no longer available in most of the world, however Uruguay, and some ...

* Chinotto – Venezuela * Veep (replaced by Sprite) * Ting - popular in the Caribbean

References

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