Caffeine-Free Mountain Dew
Caffeine-Free Mountain Dew was a variant of Mountain Dew that used almost the exact formula but did not contain caffeine.
Description[]
Caffeine-Free Mountain Dew was a citrus flavored soda, and was yellow-green in color, much like the original flavor. Its packaging used the same design found on the original flavor's packaging but used a golden-brown color as the prominent color.
Trivia[]
- Diet Mountain Dew also has a caffeine-free variant.
- Due to international caffeine regulations, a some countries had to have a caffeine-free version of its Mountain Dew products.
- Australia banned caffeine in Mountain Dew and other non-cola soft drinks until June 2012. The caffeine-free version was discontinued, and now the brand is referred to as Mountain Dew Energised. To this day, flavor variations (such as Energised No Sugar Major Melon) are released under the Energised banner.
- New Zealand supposedly had a ban on caffeine in soft drinks as well, but there is little info on when the country allowed non-cola soft drinks to have added caffeine. Unlike in Australia, the caffeinated replacement after the restriction change is just called Mountain Dew.
- Before 2012, Canadian Mountain Dew was also caffeine-free, which included its variants such as Diet, Code Red, Pitch Black, and Blue Shock. After a change in regulation, a newly rebranded Mountain Dew Citrus Charge (alongside a Diet variant) was released in Canada, replacing the caffeine-free version. Subsequent re-releases of the aforementioned flavors were also replaced with a caffeinated formula, although these were not released under the Citrus Charge banner, which was dropped in 2017.