As more and more brands launch health-focused drinks—flavored waters, teas, kombucha, coconut water, and on and on—traditional soda brands are modifying their drinks to be slightly healthier, too. Pepsi announced today a line of new flavors that combine soda with a splash of real fruit juice. The fruity sodas will be sold by retailers nationwide for a limited time only, starting today and staying through June 14.
There are three new flavors in the line-up: berry, mango, and lime. The berry is made with a splash of blueberry juice, the can says, while the other two have splashes of mango and lime juice with other natural flavors. These three join Pepsi's two existing flavored cans, wild cherry and vanilla.
You'll be able to buy the new flavors wherever soda is sold through June 14. They'll come in 12-packs of 12-ounce cans during that time. Following that date, the cans will only be available at Walmart and Target, where they'll come in a sleeker 12-ounce can and sold in 8-packs.
If the flavors sound familiar to you, they've been around before, though in slightly different versions. In the early 2000s, a bright-blue Pepsi Blue could be found, and it tasted like blueberries and raspberries. In 2005, WSJ reported Pepsi Lime and Diet Pepsi Lime were coming in the spring. Diet Coke with Lime came out around the same time, too. And in 2012, Paradise Mango was added to the Pepsi Next line, which was Pepsi's lower-sugar line available at the time.
