Pepsi Twist

Pepsi Twist is a lemon flavored cola, marketed by PepsiCo as an alternative to regular Pepsi.

History

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.