Gatorade

Gatorade is a non-carbonated sports drink marketed by PepsiCo. Originally made for athletes, it is now often consumed by non-athletes as a snack beverage. The drink is intended to rehydrate and to replenish the carbohydrates (using sucrose, glucose, and fructose) and electrolytes (sodium and potassium salts) depleted during aerobic exercise (particularly in the debilitating Florida climate).

Flavors in the United States with known introduction dates

1967

• Lemon-Lime (yellow)

1983

• Fruit Punch (red)

1993

• Iced tea with Lemon (light brown, discontinued)

1997

• Frost Glacier Freeze (light blue)
• Frost Riptide Rush (purple)
• Frost Alpine Snow (white, discontinued)

1999

• Fierce Lime (green, discontinued)
• Fierce Melon (orange)
• Fierce Berry (red)
• Fierce Grape (dark blue-violet)
• Midnight Thunder (black, discontinued)

2001

• Passion Fruit (pink, discontinued)
• Starfruit (light green, discontinued)
• Frost High Tide (green, discontinued)

2002

• Strawberry Ice (colorless, discontinued)
• Lime Ice (colorless, discontinued)
• Orange Ice (colorless, discontinued)
• Frost Cascade Crash (blue)

2003

• Cool Blue (blue)
• Extremo Tropical Intenso (red)
• Extremo Citrico Vibrante (yellow, discontinued)
• Extremo Mango Electrico (orange)
• Watermelon Ice (colorless)
• Berry Citrus (red)
• Fierce Strawberry (dark pink)

2004

• ESPN the Flavor (red, discontinued)
• X-Factor Fruit Punch + Berry (red)
• X-Factor Orange + Tropical Fruit (red-orange)
• X-Factor Lemon-lime + Strawberry (yellow-green)

2005

• Lemonade (light yellow)
• Raspberry Lemonade (pink)
• Strawberry Lemonade (pink)
• All-Stars Grape (dark blue-violet)
• All-Stars Lemon-Lime (yellow)
• All-Stars Berry (blue)
• Cooler Orange (orange, limited edition)
• Cherry Garcia (TOP SECRET in development in Gatorade labs)

Year unknown

• All-Stars Strawberry (red)
• All-Stars Ice Punch (colorless)
• All-Stars Tropical Punch (orange)
• Citrus Cooler (Yellow-orange) (4th flavor, introduced during the 1980s after fruit punch)
• Lemon Ice (colorless, discontinued)
• Orange (Orange) (2nd flavor, introduced at some point during the 1970s)
• Strawberry Kiwi (pink)
• Grape (purple, discontinued)