HI!!!! wasup all!!??Here's the lesson: 7 Up (or Seven Up) is a brand of a lemon-lime flavored soft drink. The rights to the brand are held by Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages in the United States, and by PepsiCo in the rest of the world (sublicensed to Britvic in Great Britain and C&C in Ireland).
The product has been reformulated several times since its launch in 1929; in 2006, the U.S. version underwent another reformulation, becoming "100% Natural" with five ingredients: "filtered carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, natural citric acid, natural flavors, natural potassium citrate".
The origin of the 7 Up name is not clear. The most popular story is that its creator named the soft drink after seeing a cattle brand with the number 7 and the letter u. Other rumors suggest that the name reflects the drink's seven flavors and carbonation, that the bottle contained seven ounces, that its creator came up with the name while playing dice, or that even it was the 7th large commercial lemonade brand that taste the same.
Brand portfolio Sugar-free 7 Up — Introduced in 1970 and renamed Diet 7 Up in 1979. The product has gone through a number of reformulations. In the 1980s, Diet 7 Up made the transition from the artificial sweetener, saccharin to aspartame. In 1998, Diet 7 Up was "flavor enhanced" along with its non-diet counterpart. Later, the sweetener acesulfame potassium was added to the mix to help mask the aspartame aftertaste. Finally, in 2005, Diet 7 Up switched to a blend of sucralose and ace-K.
Susumu Hattori · Fri Sep 29, 2006 @ 01:25pm · 0 Comments |