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 of drinks. They make iced teas, juice drinks, lemonade, and bottled water. The company that owns Snapple is called Keurig Dr Pepper. It is based in Plano, Texas, in the United States.
Snapple started in 1972. The first company was named Unadulterated Food Products. Snapple became well-known because it was mentioned in many TV shows and other pop culture.
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The Story of Snapple: How it Started
Snapple was created by three friends: Leonard Marsh, Hyman Golden, and Arnold Greenberg. They started their company in 1972 in Valley Stream, Long Island, New York.
Their first company was called Unadulterated Food Products. It began as a side job to sell fruit juices to health food stores. The founders weren't sure if the business would work. Arnold Greenberg kept running his health food store in Manhattan. Leonard Marsh and Hyman Golden had a window washing business. Leonard Marsh once said he knew "as much about juice as about making an atom bomb" when they started.
How Snapple Got Its Name
The name "Snapple" came from an early apple juice product. The founders made a fizzy apple juice. One time, a batch of this apple juice fermented in the bottles. This caused the bottle caps to pop off!
The original name for that apple juice was "Snapple." This name came from combining the words snappy and apple. Because of the fizzy apple juice, "Snapple" became the new name for their whole drink company. The Snapple Beverage Corporation officially started in the early 1980s. They didn't make their first tea, a lemon tea, until 1987.
Snapple Drinks Today
As of 2016, Snapple makes many different kinds of drinks. These include various flavors of tea, like lemon, raspberry, and peach. You can find these in regular and diet versions. They also make juice drinks, lemonade, and bottled water. Snapple drinks are sold in both bottles and aluminum cans.
Snapple's famous slogan is "Made from the Best Stuff on Earth."
Snapple's Fun Advertising
In the early 1990s, Snapple had popular TV commercials. These ads featured a person called Wendy Kaufman, known as the "Snapple Lady." She would answer letters from Snapple fans.
Snapple also used its advertising money for live radio commercials. These featured famous radio hosts like Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh. The company also signed tennis player Jennifer Capriati to promote its products.
By 1992, Snapple drinks were sold in every major city in the United States. The company did not own its own factories. Instead, it worked with over 30 different bottling companies across the country. This helped Snapple keep its costs low. The main company only had about 80 employees.
Changes in Ownership
Over the years, Snapple has been owned by several different companies. In 1992, a businessperson named Thomas H. Lee bought Snapple. The three original founders still owned part of the company and helped manage it.
Just two years later, in 1994, Snapple was sold to the Quaker Oats Company. Later, in 1997, Quaker Oats sold Snapple to a company called Triarc. Then, in 2000, Triarc sold Snapple to Cadbury Schweppes. 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 interesting "Real Facts" on the inside of their bottle caps. You can find a list of these facts on the company's website.
However, some of the facts on Snapple caps have been found to be old, wrong, 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 artichoke are also flowers. | False |
| 23 | The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monument. | The San Francisco cable cars are National Historic Landmarks, not 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 fact is not true and is impossible, as explained by Scientific American. | False |
| 36 | A duck's quack does not echo. | Both Snopes and MythBusters showed that a duck's quack does echo, but it can be hard to hear. | Exaggerated |
| 69 | Caller ID is illegal in California. | There is no law against Caller ID in California. There were talks about making it illegal in the early 1990s. | False |
| 77 | No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. | Britney Gallivan proved this wrong in 2002 by folding paper 12 times. MythBusters folded a large, thin piece of paper 11 times in 2005. | False |
| 89 | The average American walks 18,000 steps a day. | 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 died at 175 years old in 2006. The oldest known animal was a clam named Ming, which 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. The Netherlands has the Keeshond as its national dog. 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. Kalawao County, Hawaii is smaller. 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 center of the Sun can reach 27 million degrees. | 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) said "Mind Your Business." The first U.S. penny was made in 1793. | Misleading |
| 744 | Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away | Sea World says polar bears can smell seals from about 0.6 miles (1 km) away. | Exaggerated |
| 761 | Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue | Most birds have great color vision. Some can even see ultraviolet (UV) light. | False |
| 793 | Broadway is one of the longest streets in the world. It is 150 miles long. | Broadway ends 32 miles (51.5 km) from where it starts in Manhattan. It continues north as U.S. 9. | 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 contiguous U.S. The lowest point is Badwater Basin in Death Valley, 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 16-18 millimeters. It grows to about 19.5 millimeters by age 3, and 24-25 millimeters in adulthood. | Partly true |
| 853 | Hawaii has its own time zone. | Hawaii shares a time zone with the Aleutian Islands. However, almost everyone in this 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 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." In her story, the slippers were 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. | There is no proof that dueling is legal in Paraguay. The U.S. Paraguayan consulate has said that dueling is illegal there. | 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 count leap years, it would take 2,738 years to spend 1 billion dollars if you spent 1 thousand dollars a day. | 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. Then, element 114 was named Flerovium. Now, both J and Q are missing from the periodic table. | Outdated |
The Theater Center (Formerly Snapple Theater Center)
In 2007, Snapple helped open a place called the Snapple Theater Center. It was on 50th Street and Broadway in New York City's Theater District.
This center had two theaters for plays. It also had a large space for rehearsals. The theaters were considered "off-Broadway" because they had fewer seats than bigger Broadway theaters. The theater no longer has the Snapple name. It is now simply known as The Theater Center.
Kosher Certification for Snapple Drinks
Most Snapple drinks have a Kosher certification. This means they follow special food rules from Jewish law. The certification comes from the OK Kosher Agency.
However, a few Snapple flavors do not have this certification. These include:
- Fruit Punch
- Grape
- Kiwi Lemon-lime
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