Coca-Cola Light Sango

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Coca-Cola Light Sango
Product type Orange-flavoured cola
Owner The Coca-Cola Company
Produced by The Coca-Cola Company
Country Belgium, France
Introduced2006
Discontinued2008
Related brands Coke Citra, Diet Coke/Coke Light with Lime, Diet Coke/Coke Light with Lemon, Mezzo Mix

Coca-Cola Light Sango was a blood-orange flavoured variety of Coca-Cola Light/Diet Coke produced by The Coca-Cola Company. It was distributed in Belgium in 2005 and in France in 2006. [1]

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Developed in Belgium, the flavour was the first variety of Coca-Cola to have been developed outside of the company's Atlanta, Georgia, headquarters, [2] primarily due to Belgium's reputation as the world's top consumer of Coke Light products per capita. [3] Coke Sango's production is also due, in part, to the success of previous citrus-flavoured varieties of Coke Light in Europe. Coke Sango's name is based on sang, the French word for blood, in reference to its blood orange flavouring.[ citation needed ]

Following its release in the test markets, the drink was discontinued by Coca-Cola. [a] In early 2018, when Diet Coke underwent a full relaunch, Coca-Cola released a similar drink for the U.S. and Canada, named "Diet Coke Zesty Blood Orange". [4] [5]

References

  1. "Un Coca light à l'orange sanguine pour le printemps". Agro-Market (in French). 27 March 2006. Retrieved 2025-09-14.
  2. Coke turns to Belgium for the launch of 'Sango', 11.04.2005
  3. The Cola Index on LVB.net. 7 Apr 2005
  4. The new Diet Coke is zesty, feisty and so thirsty for millennials’ approval By MAURA JUDKIS | The Washington Post - January 13, 2018
  5. A Review of the Delirious New Diet Coke Flavors by Caity Weaver. January 23, 2018

Notes

  1. Previous versions of this article stated a discontinuation year of 2008. This was an unsourced and unverified date that has since been reported outside Wikipedia.