Sprite (History, Flavors, Pictures & Commercials)

Sprite is a clear soda with a lemon-lime flavor and is known for its green color branding. Sprite is caffeine-free, crisp tasting, and has had a wide fan base since its introduction in 1961. Sprite is often thought to be a close competitor to 7Up, another caffeine-free lemon-lime flavored soft drink. Sprite has a wide fan base and one that has changed a bit in demographics over the years. Nonetheless, Sprite has managed to stay relevant as one of the most popular sodas in the world.

Information About Sprite

Sprite is a soft drink that has a lemon-lime flavor, a crisp clean taste, and is clear and caffeine-free. It was invented and is produced by The Coca-Cola Company. It has been said that Spite began its life in 1959 as a type of Fanta drink, and that was first developed in West Germany in 1959 as Fanta Klare Zitrone (“Clear Lemon Fanta”). It should be noted that Fanta is a drink invented during World War 2 due to shortages of supplies in Germany at the time, leaving the company unable to produce Coca-Cola in that region. Other reports state that Sprite was originally thought of in the year 1956 when the Coca-Cola Company developed a tart, clear-colored carbonated soda that was first marketed as both a carbonated beverage and a drink mixer. It also seems that Sprite may have been tested throughout the United States before its official release. Sprite was introduced into the United States of America in the year 1961 and was intended to be a competitor to the similar soft drink, 7 Up, the only major lemon-lime soda on the market at the time.

Before Spite was released to the public, extreme amounts of attention were paid to aspects such as the color of the product’s branding, and the design of the look for the product. Designers and engineers for Coca-Cola Company poured through massive amounts of research, dozens of designs were considered for the Sprite bottle, and great care was taken when considering the logo and labeling of Sprite. Green was chosen as the primary color for the brand, and it heavily marketed and connected to Sprite as a product. Green was chosen to represent Sprite due to its refreshing and noticeable color, and that not only does it stand out as an easy-to-see cool color, but it is also fairly non-aggressive due to it being the most common natural color in nature. Sprite did well with its branding, and the product has achieved a strong connection to the idea of being refreshing, as well as being remembered for the standout green color of its branding.

When Sprite was released to the public in 1961, it was met with a very positive reception. At first, Sprite seemed to be marketed more to adults, but over time the soda became more popular among teens, and the marketing changed to reflect that around the 1980s. The popularity of Sprite continued to soar as time went on, and the Coca-Cola company was very heavy with advertisements for Sprite’s brand. In 1967, Sprite was available to about 85 percent of the U.S. population and was sold in at least 39 countries. The Coca-Cola Company, which owned Sprite, used its large bottler connections to help push its products, helping Sprite advance on its competition 7-up. In large part due to the strength of the Coca-Cola system of bottlers, Sprite eventually became the market leader in the lemon soda category by 1978. As of 2019, Sprite is the third most consumed soda in the world and is sold in more than 190 countries. That is nearly every country in the world, with only a few holds outs.

Sprite has made a variety of spin-off products and flavors in addition to the original version. Examples of this include cranberry flavored Sprite, Sprite 6 Mix, and Sprite Super Chilled, which featured special packaging that produced ice in the bottle. Sprite has gone through some formula changes over the years. In 2013, Sprite in the UK had its sugar content changed and began to use stevia as a sweetener, lowering its calorie content by about one-third of its former amount. In 2018 Sprite ceased using stevia as an ingredient and again changed its sugar balance to 3.3 grams per 100ml of Sprite, in addition to adding other ingredients such as aspartame. This change was said to further reduce the total calories of Sprite and was likely a response to an ever more calorie-conscious consumer. It should be noted that a Sugar-Free Spite has been out for decades, first being released in the year 1974. It appears that the formula changes that took place from 2013 to 2018 were limited to Europe, and were not reflected in Sprite sold in the United States.

The Company That Invented And Makes Sprite

Sprite is produced by The Coca-Cola Company, which is also the company that invented Sprite. The Coca-Cola Company is a famous American beverage producer that sells many drinks, including its famous flagship product also named Coca-Cola. Sprite is the second best-selling drink of the Coca-Cola Companies beverages as of 2019.

The Year That Sprite Was Invented

Sprite was first released to the America Public in the year 1961 to much fanfare. However, reports show that Sprite was sold and tested before that date. Some claim that Sprite was first a type of lemon and lime flavored Fanta drink in Germany made in 1959. Others state that Sprite’s first iteration was first made in the United States during 1956 when the Coca-Cola Company designed a carbonated clear tart soda and marketed it as both a soft drink and as a mixer. They began to test it and work on its design heavily, before releasing it as Sprite Soda in the year 1961.

Slogans

Sprite has had several slogans to help promote the drink. One of the most well-known slogans for Sprite is “Obey Your Thirst”. Sometimes the slogan “Obey” would be used as a more simple saying and implied a psychological connection to the product and its past slogans. Another newer slogan used for Sprite is “Freedom From Thirst”. This helps connect the soda to the idea that Sprite is a refreshing drink and shows a bit of a new mindset in Sprite’s marketing.

Info On Buying

Buying Sprite is fairly easy for most people. it is one of the more available drinks that can be found in stores. You can often find Sprite in places like Dollar General or Stop&Shop. Sprite is sold all over the United States and has been sold in nearly 200 countries. Some flavors of Sprite are harder to find or have been discontinued, but sometimes you may find a limited flavor on store shelves. You can also buy Sprite online, which can be a good option for those looking to purchase large amounts of Sprite at one time or for those hunting down that special flavor they desire. You can check out a list of stores that sell or have sold Sprite by looking below. You can also check below for offers to buy Sprite online and have it sent to you.

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Stores That Sell

Here is a list of stores that sell or have sold Sprite:

1. Stop And Shop
2. Big Y
3. ShopRite
4. 7-Eleven
5. Walmart
6. Walgreen’s
7. Target
8. Rite Aid
9. Citgo
10. S & S Mini Mart
11. City Market
12. Dollar General
13. Market Street Grocery
14. CVS
15. Sam’s
16. Krauszer’s Food Stores

Flavors List

Here is a list of some of the different flavors of Sprite:

• Original
• Sprite Cherry (Also Comes in Cherry Zero)
• Sprite Cranberry (Also Comes in Cranberry Zero)
• Lemon Lime and Cucumber
• Sprite Tropical flavored
• Cucumber flavored Sprite
• LeBron’s Mix “6 Mix” (Natural Cherry and Orange flavored)
• Mix, by Sprite. (Tropic Berry)
• Tropical Remix Sprite
• Lemon Lime and Cherry
• Berryclear Remix Sprite
• Aruba Jam Remix Sprite
• Grape Remix “Flavor Hits” (Do it yourself packets)
• Vanilla “Flavor Hits” (Do it yourself packets)
• Cheery “Flavor Hits” (Do i yourself packets)
• Sprite Lemonade
• Ice Mint flavored Sprite ( Sprite drink labeled Ice Mint)
• Sprite Ice
• Sprite On Fire (With a burning ginger sensation.)
• Peach flavor
• Lemon & Mint flavor
• Sprite Cool Mint
• Green Tea flavored Sprite
• Lemon & Mint
• Winter Spiced Cranberry (Limited Edition)
• Sprite Triple Chillin (An exclusive Coca-Cola Freestyle flavor)

Ingredients

Here are the ingredients of Sprite.

• Carbonated Water
• Sugar
• Citric Acid
• Sweeteners (Acesulfame K, Aspartame)
• Acidity Regulator (Sodium Citrate)
• Natural Lemon and Lime Flavourings

Nutrition

Serving Size:	1 can (341g)	% Daily Value*
Amount Per Serving
Calories from Fat	0
Calories	140
Total Fat	0g	0%
Sodium	65mg	3%
Total Carbohydrates	38g	13%
Sugars	38g
Protein	0g
Calcium		0%
Iron		0%

• Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Advertising And Marketing

Sprite had a lot of foresight put into its advertising and marketing for a soft drink, with massive amounts of attention being put into its marketing image before it hit the shelves. The design of the bottle had many different versions that were considered, the logo was viewed under a spotlight, and lots of data was trawled through. Sprite was a drink its investors wanted to get right. The team behind Sprite paid special attention to the color of its branding, with green being chosen, a color that says “freshness”. Giving a sense of freshness is a key point in Sprite soda’s advertising and marketing campaigns, with some of its slogans being “Obey Your Thirst”, “Obey”, and “Freedom From Thirst”.

Sprite advertises in many forms, with many television commercials featuring the soda and a mascot that goes by the name Miles Thirst. Sprite has undergone social media campaigns such as using Snapchat bar-codes on its soda cans to help make Sprite more interesting and entertaining for consumers. Spite used to advertise more to the adult crowd when it was first released, but over the years its advertising and marketing style has strongly gravitated to teens and young adults, offering them a refreshing drink with marketing styles and outlooks that appeals to the tastes of youths and young adults of modern times. Sprite has used billboards that tell jokes to passerby’s to help advertise its brand of soft-drink products, hoping to entertain people and generate interest in Sprite. Sprite also uses radio and newspaper advertisements to promote the soft drink. Visual depictions of Sprite are often arranged and aimed in just the right way to invoke a feeling that Sprite offers refreshment from thirst, and this angle of Sprite’s advertising has been very successful at promoting the soda.

Sprite sometimes features special variations or limited edition themes for their packaging art on their bottles and cans. One example is Sprite’s summer limited-edition collection that features rap and hip-hop-based artwork. One packaging theme that is hard to find is a cucumber packaging themed style for cucumber flavored Sprite, though it may be found in Russia and South Africa. Sprite has also released special themed edition cans featuring baseball star Kobe Bryant. A LeBron James flavored version of Sprite was released that featured its own special variation of artwork for the drink’s container.

Packaging

Sprite tends to take advantage of hues of green, blue and silver, oftentimes mixing the colors schemes. Your typical bottle and can of Sprite soda be colored green and blue, with the blues often more heavy towards the top and the greens heavier towards the bottom; The silver-colored area often makes up the center area of the container the soda is in, and the logo “Sprite” is generally situated in the center of the bottle or can is generally colored silver or white. Frequently, though perhaps not always, a lemon is depicted somewhere on the bottle or can of your average container of Sprite soda. This lemon that is shown on the packaging, as well as the green colors that dominate and the blues that mix with it, are likely an attempt to convey freshness and the trait of being refreshing to the consumer. In some cases, the yellow lemon depicted on the can will be very large, taking up a spacious amount of the packaging art space, however, sometimes it is very unnoticeable.

In general, green is the primary color that Sprite uses for its packaging style, however alternative flavors and versions of Sprite sometimes do not include green, or if it does, very little of it. They will often however take advantage of colors such as silver, white, or “clear”, probably to keep in theme with attempting to give off the appearance of being refreshing. For example Sprite cranberry Zero uses extremely little green for its packaging and its container material coloring; It instead uses silver, white, and “clear” as its overwhelming main color for its appearance, along with some red writing to presumably signify that is cranberry flavored. Some versions of Sprite soda, such as Sprite Zero, have used packaging that uses blue as its primary color, in addition to clear plastic bottling; Again, this may be another attempt to try to convey an appearance of being refreshing to the consumer.

Sizes and Types Of Containers

Sprite soda comes in a variety of different types of containers types and sizes. Sprite has been sold in glass bottles, plastic bottles, and aluminum cans. Glass bottles of Sprite soda have been sold in 8 fl oz bottles and 12 fl oz bottles. Sprite plastic bottles have been sold in 1, 1.5, and 2-liter sizes, as well as 20 fl oz and 12 fl oz sizes. the aluminum can containers have come in 12 fl cans, 16 fl oz cans, and 7.5 fl oz “mini” sizes.

Review

This review covers Sprite soda, the original Lemon-Lime version. The forest-green bottle of Sprite used for this review invokes a feeling of refreshment. Just looking at the green-colored bottle of Sprite can make you thirsty, or otherwise crave the refreshment that the green bottle and liquid inside it suggest. They might have really have known what they were doing when it came to the look of Sprite because it does feel as if this would be a refreshing soda to drink.

Opening up the bottle of Sprite to be reviewed, a slight hint of tangy lemon and lime can be smelled coming from the container. Sprite goes light on the taste, preferring a water-like experience with a noticeable, but not overpowering, flavor of lemon and lime to it. Much like its close competitor Canada Dry Ginder Ale, Sprite does not aim to overpower one’s senses with heavy flavor but instead gives you a strong-but-not-too-strong flavor of lemon and lime in a refreshing and almost water-like experience. Sprite was indeed a refreshing experience, so much so that we grabbed some Takis Fuego and decided to brave the heat. Turns out the lemon-lime flavor of Sprite combines well with Takis Fuego’s chili pepper and lime flavor, and Sprite managed to cool the firey flavor that the Takis caused.

Experiences With Sprite

I did not try Sprite until my teenage years as I was more of a Coca-Cola person at the time. All my friends drank Sprite and I did not get what the big deal was. Some of them seemed surprised that I did not drink Sprite, and thought it was weird. I thought it was weird that my friends drank Sprite, and they thought it was weird that I didn’t. They kept saying it was refreshing and it tasted good. I would think “I don’t know, a clear Soda?”, and I would always pass on it. I did not try Sprite until I was 16 before I had it at a friend’s house one day. I found it to be such a nice difference from the “brown sodas”, that I was hooked instantly. After that I just did not want to go back, Sprite had a fairly “natural” taste to it and it really was more refreshing to me than Coca-Cola was. I felt like it was super carbonated and I just really loved it. After that, I just stuck with it and have been a huge fan ever since!

Boiling Sprite

We decided to boil Sprite soda in a pan to see what happens. We used a shallow pan to do the boiling, and the Sprite took a few minutes to heat up once we applied heat from the burner; After a few minutes over the heat, the Sprite settled into a soft simmer. The sprite stayed at a simmer for some time, even after turning the heat up for several minutes to speed up the process. Eventually, we got a fairly solid boil going, but the boil was not as powerful as it seems to be when boiling normal water. The boiling Sprite started giving off steam after about 10 minutes over the burner, and slowly the Sprite started to evaporate. We put some Takis Fuego into the Sprite to see what would happen, and deep pink colored Sprite resulted due to the spices from the Takis Fuego coming loose in the boiling Sprite. The pictures were taken of the Takis Fuego in the boiling Sprite show a light pink coloration, but in reality, the true color that the Sprite took on was a very deep pink and was an interesting sight.

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Commercials

A series of commercials featuring Sprite

GRANT HILL DRINKS SPRITE COMMERCIAL.

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1991 SPRITE KID N PLAY COMMERCIAL.

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CLASSIC SPRITE COMMERCIAL FROM 1986.

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