Coca-Cola Lemon, including its variants Diet Coke with Lemon and Coca-Cola Zero Sugar Lemon, are lemon-flavored cola soft drinks produced and distributed by The Coca-Cola Company's bottlers since 2001.
History
Coca-Cola with Lemon was originally released as Diet Coke with Lemon (in some markets known as Coca-Cola Light Lemon), based on the company's existing Diet Coke product. It was test marketed in the Midwest United States in September 2001 and released in more areas the following month[1][2] before global releases. The product was launched around the same time as rival PepsiCo's own lemon cola, Pepsi Twist, which they test marketed in 2000.[3]
Diet Coke Lemon was only the second flavored