12 Discontinued Diet Sodas
1. TaB
While a mainstay soft drink for many people for many years, having been introduced way back in the year 1963, TaB just wasn't selling well enough anymore for Coke to keep on making the stuff.
2. Diet Crystal Pepsi
These Crystal sodas were the quintessential 90s drinks, but unlike neon-colored crop tops and statement earrings, Crystal Diet Pepsi is not making a comeback. Ever.
3. Tab Clear
Tab Clear was created by Coca-Cola as an answer to Crystal Pepsi. In fact, according to this Mental Floss aritcle, Tab Clear was designed to fail and thus bring down Crystal Pepsi with it
4. Pepsi Light
This saccharine-sweetened soda with a twist of lemon was introduced in 1975. Supposedly, the lemon flavor disguised the off-putting saccharine flavor. It was discontinued in the late 80s
5. Diet Coke Plus
According to Scientific American. In reality, this stuff was no more healthy than the undoctored alternative and it flopped.
6. Diet Hubba Bubba Soda
According to Parentology, Hubba Bubba sodas came out in sugary and diet form in the 1980s and were soon gone.
7. Diet 7UP Gold
7UP Gold was a spicy, sugar-free soda with a hit of caffeine. This relic of the 1980s was even less of a success than the sugary version of 7UP Gold
8. Diet Jolt Cola
according to Brand Informers, no form of Jolt is sold anymore and that's despite a brief return in 2017.
10. Diet Dr. Pepper Berries & Cream
It's a mouthful just to say "Diet Dr. Pepper Berries & Cream" but apparently it was a pretty tasty mouthful of a sugar-free soda.
11. Diet Pepsi Jazz
Pepsi Jazz came in wild flavors like Jazz with Black Cherry and French Vanilla, Jazz with Strawberries and Cream, and Caramel Cream.
12. Diet Mountain Dew Super Nova
Diet Super Nova, a strawberry-melon flavor, won over Diet Voltage. It hit the shelves for 12 weeks but never quite caught on and was discontinued.
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