Scottgaller
2 min readJun 12, 2020

Fanta Grape: Good or Bad?

Is Fanta Grape healthy?

While only containing around 3 per cent of genuine grape juice, Fanta Grape has a bold ‘no added sugar’ label on the front of the bottle that implies it's a 'healthy’ drink and it is ‘better for you’ but in reality, a drink like this is keeping weight-loss-freaks away.

The article “9 Unhealthy Drinks to Avoid at the Supermarket” from the Daily Meal says that novelty Fanta Grape is a very unhealthy drink. There may be no sugar but there certainly is an inconsiderate volume of artificial sweeteners that lays a big role in making the drink sickly-sweet.

The verdict is that Fanta Grape is that isn’t great for your health, the use of artificial sweeteners and the absence of an authentic grape flavour and chemicals makes this a drink to stay away from.

Various varieties of Fanta grape.

There are only two varieties of Fanta Grape, the American Fanta Grape and the UK Fanta Grape. These are entirely different drinks. For instance, in the American Fanta Grape has 45 grams of sugar per 360-millilitres but the UK version has only 1.8 grams of sugar for every 250-millilitre serving. This is a very big difference and could be the cause of sugar taxes between the United Nations. The sugar content completely changes the flavour between both.

I have personally have tried the American Fanta Grape and it is very unnatural and more so sickly that the UK version, I prefer the British one because of its sweet and unique taste.

Fanta Grape history.

While the foundations of Fanta came from Nazi Germany. The Fanta Grape flavoured drink has been in the US, Japan and other nations for years, it was only in the UK for the freestyle machines similar to what you would expect at a Five Guys or a Nando’s. Also, it is only in zero sugar variant to evade the government's sugar taxes

Fanta Grape Soda — 1970s/1980s

Is Fanta Grape vegan?

For the most part, Fanta Grape is vegan but there are some aspects of the way it was made makes it not vegan, for instance, there were dyes used to colour the drinks that would have been tested on animals. however, this animal experimentation was not done specifically to produce Fanta drinks but just to provide the dyes for general commercial use.