Pepsi Twist is a lemon flavored cola, marketed by PepsiCo as an alternative to regular Pepsi. History The first incarnation of Pepsi Light was cola and lemon flavor with 50% fewer calories. It was soon replaced with lemon-flavored diet cola of the same name in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States called Pepsi Light, which was lemon-flavored by necessity to counteract the aftertaste of the artificial sweetener saccharin. When aspartame became more widely available, the lemon flavoring was removed from the newly rechristened Diet Pepsi. Pepsi Twist was introduced in the United States on July 12, 2000 and again on June 12, 2001 until it was discontinued in the summer of 2006. Pepsi launched Pepsi A-ha, with a lemon flavor in India, in 2002. Pepsi Twist was marketed in Brazil (with lime instead of lemon), where a limited-edition version was also sold, the Pepsi Twistão, with an even stronger lime flavor. It has also been released in Portugal as a limited edition during summer, and has remained popular. In the Philippines, it was released in 2002 and was an instant hit among the teenagers but failed to capture the market. Pepsi Twist was also marketed in Pakistan in 2006. The product failed to capture the market, but it is still available in some supermarkets. It is marketed in Romania under the name Pepsi Twist Lemon. It was sold under the name of Pepsi Twist until recently, and its diet counterpart, Pepsi Twist Light Lemon. It is available in Albania, Greece, and China, and selected supermarkets in Germany. It was introduced in Poland in the summer of 2002 and in Italy in late 2002. It is still a fairly popular drink in the former. It was also released in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the late 2006. It is still marketing today, and it outsells the original Pepsi. In the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Belgium, the original Pepsi Twist was sold for a while, and was replaced by Pepsi Max Twist, a "lemon and lime" version which has also been discontinued. It has since been returned under the "Pepsi Max Cool Lemon" brand. In Ukraine, Pepsi Twist was marketed and sold during 2004. In 2012 reintroduced under "Pepsi +1" logo and "Pepsi-Twist" trade name. Pepsi Twist made a brief return in the Summer of 2008 with the NFL Kickoff Limited Edition Flavor, which boasted that it was Pepsi "with a