Sprite Cranberry

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 **Current Status:** | Puerto Rico: Permanent Flavor
 **Year(s) Available:** | **Freeze:**US 7-Eleven: 2013

*Not to be confused with Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry.*

**Sprite Cranberry** was a Sprite flavor inventively released for a limited time annually in the United States during the winter season from 2013 to 2018. In 2019, it got rebranded and reformulated, renamed Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry onwards.

## **Description**

Sprite Cranberry, as its name implies, was a Cranberry flavor of Sprite, similar to its successor, Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry. Its color is clear.

### **Reception**

The taste of the flavor proved to be massively successful, where it reached a legendary internet meme status from 2018 onwards.

In 2019, since the reformulation of Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry, it did receive enormous backlash from most people that liked the original Sprite Cranberry flavor, even gone as far and wide to bring back the original.

### **Outcome**

Aside from the Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry getting an annual daily release for years in the United States, there's no new known international release of original Sprite Cranberry during recent years or a re-release of the original Sprite Cranberry.

## **History**

### **United States**

Sprite Cranberry got first released in stores for a limited time during winter seasons from 2013 to 2018.

In 2019, it got rebranded and reformulated, renamed Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry onwards.

### **Sprite Cranberry Zero**

Sprite Cranberry Zero got first released in stores alongside its regular variant for a limited time during winter seasons from 2013 to 2018.

## **International Release**

### **Canada**

In 2015, following the American release of Sprite Cranberry in 2013, it was getting sold in Canada. After two years of popular demand to bring the flavor back, The Canadian Coca-Cola Company decided to release it for a limited time in most of the provinces in Canada again in 2017 and then in 2019 for the winter season.

As of November 2021, it is unclear if Sprite Cranberry, going to make a comeback for a limited time or not.

### **Japan**

Sprite Cranberry got released in Japan sometime in 2017. There's not much known about its Japanese release aside from a YouTube video giving a review about it. As of November 2021, it is unclear that if Sprite Cranberry is still available or not.

### **Belgium**

In 2017, it got released in Belgium for a limited time but only as a Zero Sugar variant for some reason. There's not much information about this particular release.

### **Puerto Rico**

On November 12th, 2018, the official Sprite Puerto Rico Facebook page announced that Puerto Rico is getting a new flavor called Sprite Cranberry that got sent out samples of it to lucky fans, and it later got released as a permanent flavor. As of November 2021, it is still getting produced in that territory of the United States.

### **Jamaica**

On September 9th, 2020, the official Coca-Cola Journey page announced that Jamaica is getting a new flavor called Sprite Cranberry, got released for a limited time in late 2020 then got discontinued shortly after.

## **Trivia**

* In late 2018, Sprite Cranberry evolved into a meme because of a commercial that featured Lebron James asking "Wanna Sprite Cranberry?" to the vests on the house. As of early-mid 2019, its popularity died down as expected; however, even after it got reformulated and renamed into Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry was introduced, the old commercial continued to be used (albeit edited).