In addition to

PepsiCo PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational corporation, multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in Harrison, New York, in the hamlet of Purchase, New York, Purchase. PepsiCo's business encompasses all aspects of the f ...

Mountain Dew Mountain Dew, stylized as Mtn Dew in some countries and colloquially known as Dew in some areas, is a soft drink brand owned by PepsiCo. The original formula was invented in 1940 by Tennessee beverage Bottler (company), bottlers Barney and A ...

Coca-Cola Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a cola soft drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company. In 2013, Coke products were sold in over 200 countries and territories worldwide, with consumers drinking more than 1.8 billion company beverage servings ...

Mello Yello Mello Yello is a highly caffeinated, citrus-flavored soft drink produced, distributed and created by the Coca-Cola Company that was introduced on March 12, 1979, to compete with PepsiCo's Mountain Dew. According to Donovan, songwriter and perf ...

Dr Pepper Dr Pepper is a carbonated soft drink. Dr Pepper was created in the 1880s by the American pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas, and was first nationally marketed in the United States in 1904. It is manufactured by Keurig Dr Pepper in t ...

's Sun Drop, there are a variety of smaller or regional brands for citrus soda. Several of these brands include the word "Mountain" in their name to help describe their product, a nod to Mountain Dew's leading market position.

Citrus Drop/Citrus Drop Xtreme

Big K Citrus Drop is the generic version of Mountain Dew sold at

Kroger The Kroger Company, or simply Kroger, is an American retail company that operates (either directly or through its subsidiaries) supermarkets and multi-department stores throughout the United States. Founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cinc ...

stores. Its name plays another citrus drink, Sun Drop, which claims that its introduction in 1928 makes it the first soft drink marketed in this category, earlier than Mountain Dew. The brand's slogan is "Pop the Drop" which is analogous to Mountain Dew's former "Do the Dew" slogan. Citrus Drop contains 26.2 mg of caffeine per can, while Diet Citrus Drop contains 25.1 mg. The Xtreme version tastes the same, but contains more caffeine than the original Citrus Drop, and comes in a 'tribal' themed can. According to Kroger's customer service, Diet Citrus Drop Xtreme has 70.9 mg of caffeine. The slogan is "Citrus With Attitude".

Citrus Pop

This is the

Stewart's Shops Stewart's Shops is an American regional chain of convenience stores located in Upstate New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire. The company is owned by the Dake family. Stewart's is headquartered in Ballston Spa, New York, Ballston Spa (with a ...

equivalent to Mountain Dew available in upstate New York and Vermont.

Fountain Mist

This was the

Sodastream SodaStream International Ltd. () is an Israel-based manufacturing company best known as the maker of the consumer home carbonation product of the same name. The company's soda machines, in the style of soda siphons, add carbon dioxide to wate ...

version of Mountain Dew, sold as a syrup for their home carbonation device. This flavor was sold in standard and diet varieties, both of which use

Splenda Splenda is a global brand of sugar substitutes and reduced-calorie food products. While the company is known for its original formulation containing sucralose, it also manufactures items using natural sweeteners such as stevia, monk fruit and ...

as part or all of the sweetening agent, instead of

aspartame Aspartame is an artificial non-saccharide sweetener commonly used as a sugar substitute in foods and beverages. 200 times sweeter than sucrose, it is a methyl ester of the aspartic acid/phenylalanine dipeptide with brand names NutraSwe ...

high-fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), also known as glucose–fructose, isoglucose, and glucose–fructose syrup, is a sweetener made from corn starch. As in the production of conventional corn syrup, the starch is broken down into glucose by enzy ...

. Fountain Mist was discontinued as part of their brand overhaul in mid-2015.

Hannaford Mountain Lion

Hannaford Hannaford is a rather uncommon surname worldwide, emanating from the small village of Hannaford in Devonshire, whose name may have originated as "Hanna's ford" and spread in the 16th-century to nearby towns such as Kingsbridge and Ashburton, Devon, ...

makes Mountain Lion and it has a flavor similar to Mountain Dew but the color is a bit lighter green then Mountain Dew and it costs less it is very similar to Food Lion’s Mountain Lion.

H-E-B Citrus Rush

H-E-B Citrus Rush is distributed by Texas grocery chain

H-E-B H-E-B Grocery Company, LP, is an American privately held company, privately held supermarket chain based in San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, with more than 435 stores throughout Texas and Mexico. The company also operates Central Market (Texas) ...

. H-E-B has compared the soda to Mountain Dew as a part of its “Texas Showdown” campaign.

Hillbilly Holler

Hillbilly Holler is a generic version of Mountain Dew sold at Fareway stores. Rather than being a direct play on the name Mountain Dew, this name and some other generics make reference to the song, Good Old Mountain Dew, which praises the

moonshine Moonshine is alcohol proof, high-proof liquor, traditionally made or distributed alcohol law, illegally. The name was derived from a tradition of distilling the alcohol (drug), alcohol at night to avoid detection. In the first decades of the ...

brewed in the

Appalachian Mountains The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, are a mountain range in eastern to northeastern North America. The term "Appalachian" refers to several different regions associated with the mountain range, and its surrounding terrain ...

Hillbilly ''Hillbilly'' is a term historically used for White people who dwell in rural area, rural, mountainous areas in the United States, primarily in the Appalachian region and Ozarks. As people migrated out of the region during the Great Depression, ...

and Holler are words referring to Appalachian Mountain life. The taste falls somewhere between Mello Yello and Mountain Dew.

Kickapoo Joy Juice

Kickapoo Joy Juice is a citrus-flavored soft drink brand owned by the

Monarch Beverage Company The Monarch Beverage Company Inc is a diversified, international beverage company based in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. The company's CEO is Jacques Bombal. The company was founded in 1965 by Frank Armstrong. Monarch Beverage Company ...

. The name was introduced in ''

Li'l Abner ''Li'l Abner'' was a satirical American comic strip that appeared in multiple newspapers in the United States, Canada, and Europe. It featured a fictional clan of hillbillies living in the impoverished fictional mountain village of Dogpatch, ...

'', a comic strip that ran from 1934 through 1977.

Kountry Mist

Kountry Mist is the generic version of Mountain Dew sold at

Winn-Dixie Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., is an American supermarket chain store, chain headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. Founded in 1925, Winn-Dixie grocery stores and liquor stores serve communities throughout five southeastern states – Alabama, ...

stores.

Moon Mist

Moon Mist is the Mountain Dew clone sold by

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 ...

, and is distributed in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Central Southern regions of the United States.

Mountain Breeze

Mountain Breeze is the Safeway SELECT generic answer to Mountain Dew. The taste of the soda is much the same as Mountain Dew, with a few noticeable differences. Mountain Dew is a bit tangier than its Safeway SELECT counterpart, which focuses more on sweetness. The design of a Mountain Breeze soda can also bears a great resemblance to an older Mountain Dew can, more so than many of the generic citrus sodas. Safeway Select has replaced the brand name with Refreshe.

Mountain Charge

Mountain Charge is the Mountain Dew inspired citrus soda available at ShopRite stores.

Mt. Chill

Mt. Chill is manufactured by SuperValu and can be found at

Festival Foods Festival Foods is a family owned American supermarket chain that operates stores throughout Wisconsin. It was founded in 1946 by Paul and Jane Skogen as Skogan's IGA in Onalaska, Wisconsin, and is still owned by the Skogen family. Festival' ...

Sentry Foods Sentry Foods is a grocery store chain with a total of nine stores, all in Wisconsin. Sentry Foods stores got their start in the Milwaukee area in the 1960s, being operated and supplied by the Godfrey family. In the mid-1980s, Fleming Companies ...

Cub Foods Cub is an American supermarket chain. It operates stores in Minnesota and Illinois. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of United Natural Foods, based in Providence, Rhode Island. History Beginnings Cub Foods was founded by Minnesota-based ...

, County Market,

Albertsons Albertsons Companies, Inc. is an American grocery company founded and headquartered in Boise, Idaho. With 2,253 stores as of the third quarter of fiscal year 2020 and 270,000 employees as of fiscal year 2019, the company is the second-large ...

, and Jewel-Osco. Contains 48g of sugar, 180 calories. The punk band Crucial Dudes has titled a song "Mt. Chill, You're Climbin'" in honor of this product.

Mountain Drive

Mountain Drive is the generic version of Mountain Dew sold at

Hy-Vee Hy-Vee, Inc. (), is an employee-owned chain of supermarkets in the Midwestern and Southern United States, with more than 280 locations in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, with stores planned in ...

stores, also available in diet. Formerly known as Heee Haw.

Mountain Drops

The Our Family version of Mountain Dew. Mountain Drops contains 20 more calories, one more gram of carbohydrates, and one more gram of sugar than Mountain Dew. This generic soda does not use any orange juice.

Mountain Explosion

This is the Clover Valley brand sold at

Dollar General Dollar General Corporation is an American chain of discount stores headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. As of January 8, 2024, Dollar General operated 19,643 stores in the contiguous United States and Mexico. The company began in 1939 in ...

Mountain Frost

Sold exclusively at

Aldi Aldi (German pronunciation: ), stylised as ALDI, is the common company brand name of two German multinational family-owned discount supermarket chains operating over 12,000 stores in 18 countries. The chain was founded by brothers Karl and ...

stores. Similar ingredients. Mountain Frost has the same amount of sugar, which is 47 grams.

Mountain Fury

Mountain Fury is a Mountain Dew taste-alike produced and distributed by the Milwaukee-based Roundy's for their Pick n' Save, Rainbow, Copps and Mariano's stores in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois. Diet Mountain Fury is also available. Mountain Fury has a caffeine content of 41.8 mg per 12 oz. can.

Mountain Holler

Mountain Holler is a

generic brand Generic brands of consumer products (often supermarket goods) are distinguished by the absence of a brand name, instead identified solely by product characteristics and identified by plain, usually black-and-white packaging. Generally they imitat ...

soft drink A soft drink (see #Terminology, § Terminology for other names) is a class of non-alcoholic drink, usually (but not necessarily) Carbonated water, carbonated, and typically including added Sweetness, sweetener. Flavors used to be Natural flav ...

similar to Mountain Dew and is sold exclusively at

Save-A-Lot Save A Lot Food Stores Ltd. is an American discount supermarket chain store headquartered in St. Ann, Missouri, in Greater St. Louis. It has about 720 independently owned and operated stores across 32 states in the United States with over ...

grocery stores. It has a small group following around the U.S. Its taste is closer to Surge than Mountain Dew. Mountain Holler also has a few extensions of its flavors, also similar to Mountain Dew. Mountain Holler Red Howl is similar to Code Red or even the limited time Game Fuel, and Mountain Holler Avalanche is similar to Whiteout. Diet Mountain Holler is also available.

Mountain Lightning

Mountain Lightning is a

Wal-Mart Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States and 23 other ...

brand that resembles Mountain Dew. On the can, there is a picture of two

mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher t ...

s and

lightning Lightning is a natural phenomenon consisting of electrostatic discharges occurring through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions. One or both regions are within the atmosphere, with the second region sometimes occurring on ...

bolts surrounding it and the color scheme resembles that of Mountain Dew's. It's a less expensive alternative to Mountain Dew with less

caffeine Caffeine is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant of the methylxanthine chemical classification, class and is the most commonly consumed Psychoactive drug, psychoactive substance globally. It is mainly used for its eugeroic (wakefulness pr ...

. One can presume that its name was chosen due to both brand names being alternative for

Mountain Lion

Mountain Lion is the

Food Lion Food Lion is an American regional supermarket Chain store, chain headquartered in Salisbury, North Carolina, that operates over 1,000 supermarkets in 10 states: Delaware, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsyl ...

equivalent to Mountain Dew. It is available in cans and PET bottles. Like all Food Lion diet drinks, Diet Mountain Lion is no longer sweetened with

, and they now use

. Mountain Lion tastes very similar to Mountain Dew and

. Diet Mountain Lion is sweeter than Diet Mountain Dew. Mountain Lion contains about the same amount of caffeine as Mountain Dew. Mountain Lion can be found at Sweetbay Markets. Mountain Lion ingredients : carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, orange juice concentrate, natural flavor, potassium benzoate, gum arabic, potassium citrate, caffeine, calcium disodium EDTA, yellow #5, brominated vegetable oil.

Mountain Mania

Mountain Mania is a citrus soda under the

President's Choice President's Choice (Canadian French, French: le Choix du Président) or PC is a line of grocery products and services offered by the Canada-based Loblaw Companies, Loblaw Companies Ltd. History President's Blend The first President's Ch ...

brand available at

Loblaws Loblaws Inc. is a Canadian supermarket chain with stores located in the province of Ontario, and in Alberta and British Columbia under the Loblaws CityMarket banner. Headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, Loblaws is a subsidiary of Loblaw Companie ...

retailers.

Mountain Maze

Mountain Maze is the Mountain Dew-like soda sold exclusively at

stores.

Mountain Mellow

Mountain Mellow (a cross between Mountain Dew and Mello Yello) is the

Western Family Western Family Foods was founded as the Pacific Mercantile Cooperative on March 3, 1934, by a group of retailer-owned grocery wholesalers. Western Family Foods was established December 19, 1963. The company supplied independent grocery stores ...

and Shurfine brand Mountain Dew knockoff, sold in some areas with the subtitle "citrus soda." "Mountain Mellow" is sold (under the Western Family banner) in Mega Foods, Lowe's Market in Texas and other stores in the northwest of the U.S.A., and under the Shurfine banner in many areas of the Northeast.

Mountain Mist, by Top Pop Soda

Mountain Mist has made some cameo appearances in

Malcolm in the Middle ''Malcolm in the Middle'' is an American television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series premiered on January 9, 2000, and ended on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons consisting of 151 episodes. The ...

Mountain Moondrops

Mountain Moondrops is an

Ingles Ingles Markets, Inc. (stylized as ingles) is an American supermarket chain based in Black Mountain, North Carolina. As of September 2021, the company operates 198 supermarkets in the Appalachian region of the Southeastern United States. The c ...

brand of

that resembles Mountain Dew.

Mountain Rapids

Mountain Rapids is the "Smart Sense" brand's Mountain Dew-based soda available at

Kmart Kmart ( ), formerly legally registered as Kmart Corporation, now operated by Transformco, is a department-store chain and online retailer in the United States and Territories of the United States, its territories. It operates four remaining Kma ...

stores.

Mountain Roar

Mountain Roar is the

Harris Teeter Harris Teeter Supermarkets, LLC., also known as Harris Teeter Neighborhood Food & Pharmacy, is an American supermarket chain based in Matthews, North Carolina, a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlotte. , the chain operates 262 stores in ...

equivalent to Mountain Dew. This soda is similar to Mountain Dew in taste, but it has a higher sugar content. Mountain Roar is no longer available at most Harris Teeters, but Diet Mountain Roar can be found at times.

Mountain Rush

Mountain Rush is manufactured by Shasta and designed to compete with Mountain Dew and Mello Yello.

Mountain Shoutin

Mountain Shoutin is a Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover soft drink brand designed to compete with Mountain Dew.

Mountain Shower

Mountain Shower is the

Weis Markets Weis Markets, Inc. (, ), doing business as Weis and stylized as weis, is an American Grocery store, food retailer headquartered in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. It currently operates 200 stores with over 23,000 employees in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New ...

version of a Mountain Dew-type soda.

Mountain Splash

Mountain Splash is the Publix Super Markets brand of generic Mountain Dew. Formerly known as Citrus Hit.

Mountain Summit

Mountain Summit is th
Schnucks
store brand of Mountain Dew.

Mountain Tops

Mountain Tops is the

Tops Friendly Markets Tops Friendly Markets is an American supermarket chain based in Amherst, New York, that operates stores in Upstate New York, Vermont, and Northern Pennsylvania. The chain operates full-scale supermarkets. Tops is a subsidiary of Northeast ...

store brand of Mountain Dew.

Mountain W

Mountain W is the

Wegmans Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is a privately held American supermarket chain. It is now headquartered in Gates, New York, but was founded on January 30, 1916, in Rochester, New York. As of late 2024, Wegmans had 111 stores in eight states (New Yo ...

stores version of a Mountain Dew style soda.

Mountain Wave

Mountain Wave is the generic "Nice!" soda brand's version of Mountain Dew available at

Walgreens Walgreens is an American pharmacy store chain. It is the second largest in the United States, behind CVS Pharmacy. As of March 2025, the company operated more than 8,700 stores in the U.S. Walgreens has been the subject of a number of lawsuit ...

stores.

Mountain Yeller

Mountain Yeller is the

Piggly Wiggly Piggly Wiggly is an American supermarket chain operating in the American Southern and Midwestern regions run by Piggly Wiggly, LLC, an affiliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers. Its first outlet opened in 1916 in Memphis, Tennessee, and is notable ...

version of a Mountain Dew style soda. It is also where the South Carolina/Florida folk band The Mountain Yellers got their name.

Ramp

Ramp is a Giant-Landover soft drink brand designed to compete with Mountain Dew.

Rocky Mist

Rocky Mist is a

Meijer Meijer Inc. (, ) is an American supercenter chain that primarily operates throughout the Midwestern United States. Its corporate headquarters are in Walker, Michigan. Founded in 1934 as a supermarket chain, Meijer is credited with pioneering ...

soft drink brand that also resembles Mountain Dew.

Stratford Sodas Citrus

Stratford Sodas citrus is a small regional citrus soft drink from the United Kingdom made specifically for rum, only available in the UK.

Ski

Ski is a citrus soda made from orange and lemon juices manufactured by the Double Cola Company. The Double Cola Company of Chattanooga, Tennessee originally got the formulated Ski from Byron Clarson in 1956 who owned a Double Cola-related bottling company in Richland Center, Wisconsin, and trademarked the soda in 1958

Wild Mountain

Wild Mountain is the Food Club generic brand Mountain Dew available a
Brookshire's Food & Pharmacy

References

{{Lists of beverages * Citrus soft drinks

Citrus Drop/Citrus Drop Xtreme

Citrus Pop

Fountain Mist

Hannaford Mountain Lion

H-E-B Citrus Rush

Hillbilly Holler

Kickapoo Joy Juice

Kountry Mist

Moon Mist

Mountain Breeze

Mountain Charge

Mt. Chill

Mountain Drive

Mountain Drops

Mountain Explosion

Mountain Frost

Mountain Fury

Mountain Holler

Mountain Lightning

Mountain Lion

Mountain Mania

Mountain Maze

Mountain Mellow

Mountain Mist, by Top Pop Soda

Mountain Moondrops

Mountain Rapids

Mountain Roar

Mountain Rush

Mountain Shoutin

Mountain Shower

Mountain Splash

Mountain Summit

Mountain Tops

Mountain W

Mountain Wave

Mountain Yeller

Ramp

Rocky Mist

Stratford Sodas Citrus

Ski

Wild Mountain

See also

References