{"id":1497280,"date":"2022-05-30T16:14:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T20:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497280"},"modified":"2022-05-30T16:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T20:14:56","slug":"fact-check-is-fanta-lemon-being-discontinued-in-europe-in-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-is-fanta-lemon-being-discontinued-in-europe-in-may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Is Fanta Lemon Being Discontinued In Europe In May 2022?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-is-fanta-lemon-being-discontinued-in-europe-in-may-2022%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497280&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>An image <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheOfficialMagaluf\/posts\/7747545185270741\"><span>shared on Facebook<\/span><\/a><span> over 230 times claims Fanta Lemon will be discontinued in European countries on May 28.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence that Fanta will discontinue the product in May. A spokesperson for Coca-Cola, which owns Fanta, confirmed the claim is false.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook image shows a screen grab of a tweet that reads, \u201cfanta lemon discontinued in all eu countries from 28th may 2022. holidays never gunna be the same.\u201d The tweet includes an image of someone holding two Fanta Lemon cans over a pool of water. Other iterations of the claim have been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AaronAnthonyPT\/status\/1522589006768312321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a> widely\u00a0on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialPLT\/status\/1522582623515774976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence Fanta Lemon is being discontinued in the European market. The product remains visible on the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coca-colaitalia.it\/brands\/fanta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>. The drink was discontinued in the U.S. in 2018 due to low consumer interest, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5901323\/Fanta-Lemon-discontinued-buy-UK.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Mail<\/a>, but <span>Fanta clarified in a<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fanta\/status\/1012453211137904640\"><span>tweet<\/span><\/a><span> that the flavor was not being discontinued outside of the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/03\/02\/fact-check-coca-cola-discontinuing-vanilla-coke-fight-white-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Is Coca-Cola Discontinuing Vanilla Coke To \u2018Fight White Supremacy\u2019?)<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No worries \u2013 while Fanta Lemon is still not available in the US, it has not been discontinued elsewhere! \ud83d\ude4c We apologize for any confusion. If you\u2019re looking for flavors available in the US, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W6YPnXKC8G\">https:\/\/t.co\/W6YPnXKC8G<\/a>. \ud83c\udf4b\ud83d\udc9b<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fanta (@fanta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fanta\/status\/1012453211137904640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A spokesperson for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coca-cola.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coca-Cola<\/a>, the company that owns the Fanta brand, confirmed the product has not been discontinued in Europe. \u201cWe continue to offer a wide range of Fanta flavours across Europe, and Fanta Lemon continues to be a key part of this portfolio,\u201d the spokesperson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/money\/6654938\/fanta-lemon-discontinued-uk-flavours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook over 230 times claims Fanta Lemon will be discontinued in European countries on May 28.Verdict: False There is no evidence that Fanta will discontinue the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":1497298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}