Doritos Meets Mountain Dew in New Nacho-Flavored Soda
A soda called “Dewitos,” a combo of Mountain Dew and Doritos, may be in our very near future. (Photo by Laura Kenney, images courtesy of PepsiCo)
Thirsty for a salty, cheesy, sugar-filled carbonated beverage? You might be able to reach for “Dewitos” in the near future.
Mountain Dew has collaborated with Doritos on a nacho-flavored soda, PepsiCo confirmed in a statement to Quarz. The company’s small-scale testing has gone viral after Steve Barnes, a Kent State freshman who tried the new soda, posted about it on Reddit on Friday. Barnes described the soda as tasting “like orange with a Doritos after taste. It tasted like straight Doritos afterwards though.”
Barnes posted this picture to Reddit, adding that the soda was “the weirdest thing I’ve ever drunken”
(photo by Steve Barnes/Reddit)
The news of “Dewitos” follows a period of soda backlash, including an October study that found drinking soda might decrease your lifespan by 4.6 years. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco found that regular soda consumption “might influence metabolic disease development through accelerated cell aging,” ultimately comparing the effects of drinking soda to those of smoking.
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Soda’s long been linked to everything from diabetes to heart attacks, but recent research and a rising health consciousness have Americans ditching soda in favor of healthier drinks. If more flavors like Dewitos are in the works, PepsiCo and the like might make scrapping soda a little easier.
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