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Dasani

Type	Water Beverage
Manufacturer	Coca-Cola Company
Country of origin	USA
Introduced	1999

Dasani (pronounced /dəˈsɑːni/) is a brand of bottled water from the Coca-Cola company, launched in 1999, after the success of Aquafina (produced by Coca-Cola-rival PepsiCo). It is one of many brands of Coca-Cola water products sold around the world.

Dasani water differs in composition between its national markets.

1 United States
2 Canada
3 South America
4 United Kingdom
5 References and footnotes
6 External links

[edit] United States

Dasani machine

Coca-Cola uses tap water from local municipal water supplies, filters it using the process of reverse osmosis and adds trace amounts of minerals, including magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt), potassium chloride (a sodium-free substitute for table salt), and common salt.

Regular Dasani water comes in the following sizes: 12 oz; 20 oz; 24 oz 'Sports Cap Bottle'; 1 L; 1.5 L; 300 mL; 12 oz fridge pack; 500 mL 6, 12, and 24-pack; and the 24 oz 6-pack.

The Dasani brand includes flavored water beverages, which use the sweetener sucralose (sold under the brand name "Splenda") as a sweetener. The flavors are lemon, grape, raspberry, and strawberry. The flavored variety comes in 20 fluid ounce bottles, 500 ml 6-packs, and 12 oz 8-packs.

The new Plus product line is similar to the flavored variety, only differing in the fact that these have vitamins added and come in Pomegranate-Blackberry, Orange-Tangerine, and Kiwi-Strawberry flavors. Dasani Plus comes in a 20 oz bottle.

[edit] Canada

Dasani was launched in Canada in 2000, a year after launching in the United States. The product was made available in Quebec shortly afterwards, in April 2001.

There are four common Dasani bottle sizes sold in Canada: 300 mL, 500mL, 591 mL, 1 L, and 1.5 L. Bottles are sold individually and in packs of 6, 12, and 24.

The source of Dasani water in Canada is Calgary, Alberta^[1]. Dasani has <35 ppm of total dissolved mineral salts.

In early 2005, two flavored versions of Dasani were introduced to the public: Dasani With Lemon and Dasani With Raspberry. Dasani with Strawberry has since been introduced to the public. The flavored beverages are sweetened with sucralose.

[edit] South America

Dasani was introduced to the Brazilian market in mid-2003, renamed as Aquarius. It was introduced to the Chilean market in 2005, including releases in regular, lemon and tangerine flavors. It was released in Colombia in late 2005 with their three regular flavors. In 2005, Dasani was introduced in the Argentinian market with the flavours peach, lemon, citrus and regular. It was also released under the name Ciel Dasani in Mexico in four flavors: lemon-cucumber, papaya-carrot, grapefruit and mandarin-green tea, but it was discontinued in 2006. It was also released in Paraguay, Uruguay and Perú .

[edit] United Kingdom

Dasani was launched in the UK in January 2004.

In March 2004, it became public through an article in The Independent newspaper that the tap water of Sidcup was being treated, bottled and sold under the Dasani brand name in the UK. Although Coca-Cola never implied that the water was being sourced from a spring or other natural source, they marketed it as being especially "pure". Hence, the public revelation of it being simply treated tap water caused a media stir.

UK authorities found a concentration of bromate in the product that could be considered harmful if consumed in large quantities. Dasani was potentially carcinogenic. Coca-Cola recalled half a million bottles and pulled the "Dasani" brand from the UK market on March 19, 2004.^[2] Shortly after, plans to introduce the brand to Continental Europe were announced to have been canceled as well. Ironically, bromate was not present in the water before Coca-Cola's treatment process. During that process the bromate was produced from the water's bromide.

Coca-Cola intended to launch Dasani as a natural spring water in France and Germany, although this never went ahead after bad publicity in the United Kingdom.