Sprite (beverage brand)

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Sprite is a lemon and lime flavored lemonade from the Coca-Cola Company . Originally it contained water, sugar and lemon juice. It was created in 1959 as the "Clear Lemon" flavor from Fanta and became Sprite in 1968. The name Sprite is made up of the English words sprinkle ("spray") and lite ("light"). Along with Coca-Cola and Fanta , Sprite is one of the many global Coca-Cola brands. Today it only contains a very small amount of lemon juice, but also some lime juice and a natural lemon and lime aroma. The ingredients are (according to the ingredient list 2019): Water, sugar , carbonic acid , acidulant citric acid , lemon juice from lemon juice concentrate (1%), lime juice from lime juice concentrate (0.1%), acidity regulator sodium citrate , natural lemon and lime aroma .

There is also the Sprite Zero offshoot ( Sprite Light until May 2005 ), in which sugar was replaced by the artificial sweeteners sodium cyclamate (E 952), aspartame (E 951) and sodium saccharin (E 954). In the USA there is also Sprite Remix , which has a cranberry flavor, and Sprite Ice Cube (e.g. in Belgium ) which has a peppermint flavor. In the US, the company released Sprite-Green . The active ingredient of the stevia plant is used as an alternative sweetener for this drink . The company sees this drink as a prototype of a new generation of drinks, as Coca-Cola has now filed 24 patents on drinks containing stevia.

Since 2010 there has been Sprite Tea in China , with the taste of Sprite and Green Tea.

In 2018, sugar-free limited summer varieties were introduced in German-speaking countries: In Germany Sprite Lemon, Lime & Mint with lemon , lime and mint flavor and in Austria Sprite Cucumber with cucumber flavor .

  • Older logo

  • Logo until 2009

  • Logo from 2009 to summer 2018

packagings

Returnable glass bottle (1 liter) from 1972

Coca-Cola describes the special bottle shape as a dimple bottle. Today this bottle shape is only found in one-way containers in Germany. Sprite is available in Germany (as of 2016) in the following packaging:

  • Returnable PET bottle at a deposit of 15 cents: 1.0 liter
  • PET non-returnable bottles with a deposit of 25 cents: 0.33, 0.5, 1.25, 1.5 and 2.0 liters
  • One-way can with a deposit of 25 cents: 0.33 liters
  • Returnable glass bottle with a deposit of 15 cents: 0.2, 0.33 and 0.5 liters
  • CC keg with a deposit of 25 euros: 9 and 18 liters

At the beginning of 2015, Coca-Cola announced that it would discontinue returnable PET bottles with a volume of 0.5 and 1.5 liters. The 1.5 liter returnable bottle is being discontinued due to the decline in sales due to demographic change. According to Coca-Cola, the 0.5-liter returnable bottle suffers from the high cost of returning empty containers, as it would often be returned as a take-away item at a different location from where it was purchased. As a result, empty boxes had to be transported to a greater extent. The refill rate of five to six circulations was the lowest of the reusable containers, as fifteen percent of the bottles were never returned.

The returnable bottles in the case of glass bottles achieve an average of twenty and in the case of PET bottles an average of fifteen circulations.

In the past, Sprite was also available in the following packaging:

  • Returnable glass bottle (with deposit): 0.25 liters
  • Returnable glass bottle (with a deposit): 0.7 liters
  • Reusable glass bottle (with deposit): 1.0 liter
  • PET returnable bottle (with a deposit): 0.5 and 1.5 liters
  • Disposable can (with a deposit): 0.25 liters
  • Disposable glass bottle (deposit-free): 0.33 and 1.0 liters
  • One-way can (deposit-free): 0.15 liters (only for airlines)
  • Disposable can (deposit-free): 0.33 and 0.5 liters

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the product ( memento from February 9, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) on sprite.de, accessed on February 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ Sweetener stevia: Food giants start the sugar revolution. In: Spiegel online. April 22, 2010.
  3. ^ Sprite launches Sprite Tea ( February 11, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ), The Coca-Cola Company
  4. ↑ Sprite: New summer variety and fresh look . In: The Coca-Cola Company . ( coca-cola-deutschland.de [accessed on August 27, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Born to RFRSH: The new Sprite Cucumber is now refreshing without sugar . ( coca-cola-oesterreich.at [accessed on August 27, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite and Co. Is Coca-Cola's reusable withdrawal just the beginning? on: mz-web.de , March 23, 2015.
  7. ↑ a b Coca-Cola tastes better out of the small bottle. In: The world. April 13, 2015, accessed June 12, 2015 .