Pepsi Twist
| Type | Lemon-flavored cola |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | PepsiCo |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Introduced | July 12, 2000 June 12, 2001 |
| Variants | Diet Pepsi Twist |
| Related products | Coca-Cola with Lemon, Pepsi Light, Pepsi Lime, Coca-Cola with Lime |
Pepsi Twist is a lemon flavored cola, marketed by PepsiCo as an alternative to regular Pepsi.
The first incarnation of Pepsi Light was cola and lemon flavor with 50% fewer calories. It was soon replaced with lemon-flavored diet cola of the same name in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States called Pepsi Light, which was lemon-flavored by necessity to counteract the aftertaste of the artificial sweetener saccharin. When aspartame became more widely available, the lemon flavoring was removed from the newly rechristened Diet Pepsi.
Pepsi Twist was introduced in the United States on July 12, 2000 and again on June 12, 2001.
Pepsi launched Pepsi A-ha, with a lemon flavor in India, in 2002.
Pepsi Twist was marketed in Brazil (with lime instead of lemon), where a limited-edition version was also sold, the Pepsi Twistão, with an even stronger lime flavor.
It's also been released in Portugal as a limited edition during summer, and has remained popular.
In the Philippines, it was released in 2002 and was an instant hit among the teenagers but failed to capture the market.
Pepsi Twist was also marketed in Pakistan in 2006. The product failed to capture the market, but it is still available in some supermarkets.
It is marketed in Romania under the name Pepsi Twist Lemon. It was sold under the name of Pepsi Twist until recently, and its diet counterpart, Pepsi Twist Light Lemon.
It is available in Greece, Indonesia and China.
It was introduced in Poland in the summer of 2002 and in Italy in late 2002. It is still a fairly popular drink in the former.
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