Soda Tasting

Lemon-Lime Soda Blind Tasting (Soda Tasting #109)

Lemon-lime sodas represent one of the most popular categories of soda. On today’s episode, I take blind taste some of the best selling varieties, plus a couple of wild cards.

Thank you to Michael Kimsal for the request.

What’s your favorite lemon-lime soda? Please let me know in the comments.

Here is a run down of the sodas featured in this blind tasting:

7UP
Company: Dr Pepper Snapple Group and PepsiCo
Calories (per 12 oz.): 140
Caffeine (per 12 oz): Free
Sweetener: HFCS

Bubble Up (see my review)
Company: The Dad’s Root Beer Company
Calories (per 12 oz.): 160
Caffeine (per 12 oz): Free
Sweetener: HFCS

Limon Up
Company: Food Lion
Calories (per 12 oz.): 150
Caffeine (per 12 oz): Free
Sweetener: HFCS

Sierra Mist Natural (see my review)
Company: PepsiCo
Calories (per 12 oz.): 140
Caffeine (per 12 oz): Free
Sweetener: Sugar

Sprite (see my review)
Company: The Coca-Cola Company
Calories (per 12 oz.): 140
Caffeine (per 12 oz): Free
Sweetener: HFCS

Thank you for watching.

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10 comments on “Lemon-Lime Soda Blind Tasting (Soda Tasting #109)”

  2. I would rank them as: Sprite, Sierra Mist, and 7-Up. Those are the only three I have had. Now for the diet versions it different. They are: Diet 7-Up, Diet Sierra Mist, and Sprite Zero.

    • Thanks for weighing in, Brian! I see we have similar tastes on this particular matter! :)

      Patrick

  3. Great show! Lemon Lime is my general favorite and I have to say Sprite is my favorite Lemon Lime as well! Glad to hear it came in first, interesting to hear the store brand come in the middle of the pack but good on em! Keep up the great shows Patrick!

  4. I’m a huge fan of both the show and sodas (premium sodas that is) and would love to see an episode using my favorite of these, the lime Ricky pop Shoppe. Thanks again,
    Kane

    • Thank you for the suggestion and kind words, Kane Prud’Homme. I’ve added it to my list!

      Patrick

  5. I’d have gone Sprite, 7up as 1,2. The only other one listed that I’ve had is Sierra Mist, and for some reason that soda has always tasted ‘off’…like it had expired. I’ve tried it again and again, with the same result. In fact, the way you described 7up, as having a bitterness, is how I’d have described the Sierra Mist, with an aftertaste that I found very off putting.

    • Thanks for sharing your thoughts, W. Chace. Interesting. Yeah, I’m not a huge fan of Sierra Mist Natural either, unfortunately.