Snapple facts for kids
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| Type | Iced tea, juice drink, lemonade, water |
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| Manufacturer | Keurig Dr Pepper |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Introduced | 1972 |
Snapple is a popular brand known for its teas and juice drinks. It's owned by Keurig Dr Pepper, a company in Texas, USA. Snapple started way back in 1972 and became famous partly because it was mentioned in TV shows and other pop culture.
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The Story of Snapple: How It Began
Snapple was started in 1972 by three friends: Leonard Marsh, Hyman Golden, and Arnold Greenberg. They were in Valley Stream, New York. Their first company was called Unadulterated Food Products. They began by selling fruit juices to health food stores as a side job.
How Snapple Got Its Unique Name
The name "Snapple" came from an early apple juice product. The founders made a fizzy apple juice, but one batch fermented. This caused the bottle caps to "snap" off! They combined "snappy" and "apple" to create "Snapple." This fun name then became the name for their whole drink company in the early 1980s. Snapple didn't even make its first tea, a lemon tea, until 1987.
Snapple's Many Flavors and Types
As of 2025, Snapple offers many different kinds of drinks. These include various tea flavors like lemon, raspberry, and peach, available in both regular and diet versions. They also make juice drinks, lemonade, and bottled water. You can find Snapple in both bottles and aluminum cans.
Snapple's Famous Slogan and Ads
Snapple's well-known slogan is "Made from the Best Stuff on Earth." In the early 1990s, Snapple had popular TV commercials. These ads featured a person called "the Snapple Lady," Wendy Kaufman, who would answer letters from fans. Snapple also used radio ads with famous hosts to promote their drinks. They even signed tennis player Jennifer Capriati to help advertise their products. By 1992, Snapple drinks were sold in every major city in the United States.
Who Has Owned Snapple Over the Years?
In 1992, a businessperson named Thomas H. Lee bought Snapple. Just two years later, in 1994, he sold the company to Quaker Oats for a lot of money. Quaker Oats later sold Snapple to another company called Triarc in 1997. Then, in 2000, Cadbury Schweppes bought Snapple. Finally, in 2008, Snapple became part of its current owner, Keurig Dr Pepper.
Snapple's "Real Facts" on Bottle Caps
Snapple is famous for printing "Real Facts" on the inside of its bottle caps. These are numbered facts that cover all sorts of topics. You can find a list of these facts on the company's website. The "Real Facts" go up to at least #2024, though not every number has a fact.
It's important to know that some of the facts on Snapple caps have been found to be outdated, incorrect, or a bit exaggerated. Here are a few examples:
| Fact # | Claim | Reality | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower. | Other vegetables like cauliflower and artichokes are also flowers. | False |
| 23 | The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monument. | They are National Historic Landmarks, which is different from National Monuments. Many ships and even some roller coasters are also National Historic Landmarks. | Exaggerated |
| 31 | The average human will eat an average of eight spiders a year while asleep. | This is not true and is impossible, as experts have confirmed. | False |
| 36 | A duck's quack does not echo. | Tests by Snopes and MythBusters showed that a duck's quack does echo, but it can be hard to hear clearly. | Exaggerated |
| 69 | Caller ID is illegal in California. | There is no law against Caller ID in California. There were talks about it in the early 1990s, but no law was passed. | False |
| 77 | No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. | This myth was proven wrong in 2002 when someone folded a piece of paper 12 times. MythBusters also folded a large, thin piece of paper 11 times. | False |
| 89 | The average American walks 18,000 steps a day. | Studies show the average American walks about 5,117 steps a day. | Exaggerated |
| 114 | The oldest known animal was a tortoise, which lived to be 152 years old. | A tortoise named Harriet lived to be 175 years old. The oldest known animal was a clam named Ming, who lived to be about 507 years old. | Outdated |
| 140 | Holland is the only country with a national dog. | Holland is a region in the Netherlands, not a country itself. The Netherlands has a national dog, the Keeshond, but other countries like Mexico also have national dogs. | False |
| 146 | The smallest county in America is New York County, better known as Manhattan. | Manhattan is the second-smallest county by land area. The smallest self-governing county is Arlington County, Virginia. | False |
| 162 | The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees Fahrenheit. | The surface of the Sun is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The very center of the Sun can reach 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. | False |
| 163 | The first penny had the motto "Mind your own business". | The first official one-cent coin in the U.S. (the Fugio Cent) had the message "Mind Your Business." | Misleading |
| 182 | A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon. | Rainbows can be seen when the sun is low in the sky, which often happens in the morning or late afternoon. However, it doesn't have to be those exact times. | Exaggerated |
| 744 | Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away | Polar bears can smell seals from about 0.6 miles away, which is much closer than 20 miles. | Exaggerated |
| 761 | Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue | Most birds have excellent color vision and can see many colors, some even seeing colors in the UV spectrum. | False |
| 793 | Broadway is one of the longest streets in the world. It is 150 miles long. | Broadway is about 33 miles long from its start in Manhattan. It continues north as other roads. | Exaggerated |
| 794 | Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States, and Zabriskien [sic] Point, the lowest point in the United States, are less than eighty miles apart. | Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in the connected United States. The lowest point is Badwater Basin, which is 84 miles from Mount Whitney. | Partly true |
| 825 | Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. | A newborn's eyeball is smaller than an adult's and grows until adulthood. | Partly true |
| 853 | Hawaii has its own time zone. | Hawaii shares its time zone with the Aleutian Islands. However, almost everyone in that time zone lives in Hawaii. | Partly true |
| 868 | Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger. | There is no proof that Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger. The modern coat hanger has been invented and patented many times since the mid-1800s. | Inconclusive |
| 889 | The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers. | The earliest known Cinderella story is about a Greek girl named Rhodopis, and her slippers were described as rose-gold, not fur. | False |
| 904 | If done perfectly, any Rubik's Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns. | The fewest number of turns needed to solve a Rubik's Cube is 20 in some cases. | False |
| 907 | Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. | Dueling is illegal in Paraguay. | Inconclusive |
| 921 | If you had 1 billion dollars and spent 1 thousand dollars a day, it would take you 2,749 years to spend it all. | If you spent $1,000 a day from $1 billion, it would take about 2,738 years, including leap years. | Exaggerated |
| 975 | The letter J is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements. | This was true until 2012. Now, both J and Q are missing from the periodic table. | Outdated |
Snapple and Kosher Certification
Most Snapple drinks have a special certification called "kosher." This means they follow certain food rules from Jewish law. The OK Kosher Agency gives this certification. However, a few Snapple flavors are exceptions and are not kosher certified. These include:
- Fruit Punch
- Grape
- Kiwi Lemon-lime
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