Coca-Cola Gets Creative with New Flavors

Much to my delight, Coca-Cola is rolling out two new flavors: Diet Black Cherry & Vanilla Coke and Black Cherry Vanilla Coke. These new additions to the bevy of flavors in the Coca-Cola vault will debut in January. "Cherry-flavored beverages are experiencing significant growth as are no-calorie soft drinks,” said Katie Bayne, senior vice president Coca-Cola North America. One of my coworkers believes these new flavors are a result of the recent success of Dr. Pepper's Cherry Vanilla variety and I tend to agree.

I for one, am all for new flavors of diet soda but one of my other coworkers disagrees. He says that there are so many brands and flavors out there, he gets stressed out every time he walks down the soft drink aisle at the grocery store. Me, I like a challenge. I enjoy the process of waiting for a new flavor to arrive, finding it amongst the others in the grocery store and then finally bringing it home to enjoy a long-awaited sip of diet delight.

Coca-Cola also announced that it will be discontinuing Vanilla Coke and Diet Vanilla Coke as “health conscious consumers switch from carbonated beverages to low sugar and fruit drinks.” I only tried Diet Vanilla Coke once and I enjoyed it but I’m more of a traditional girl and usually stick to regular diet sodas. When I’m in the mood for a twist, that’s when I turn to something spicy like Diet Black Cherry and Vanilla Coke.