Hansen Natural

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Hansen Natural Corporation (NASDAQHANS) manufactures natural soft drinks and fruit drinks including Monster Energy, Hansen's Natural Soda, Hansen's Energy, Ace Energy Drink and Blue Sky.

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Hansen Natural Corporation manufactures its Natural Soda in twelve different flavors.[1]. While some of their products labeled Natural Soda use high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener, their Natural Cane Soda uses pure cane sugar. Their Diet Soda, which is available in seven flavors, is sweetened with acesulfame potassium and sucralose.[1]

Their Signature Soda line includes Black Cherry, Vanilla Cream, Orange Cream, Ginger Beer, and Sarsparilla flavors.[1] Hansen Natural Corporation also manufactures three types of soda mixers. They also have four flavors of natural green tea soda, three of those available in diet. Hansen Natural Corporation also makes tea bags. In addition the company has a line of 9 different fruit juices, several of the juice blends are available in small bottles for kids. Smoothies, Rumba Energy Juice, Energade, Energy Formula, and Fizzit are other minor product lines. They also own Blue Sky Beverage Company, that manufactures several soft drinks. Hansen also produces the Monster, Lost, and Rumba energy drinks, which are distributed in the United States by Anheuser Busch.[2]

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In April, 2008, the FDA announced that products containing high fructose corn syrup could not be labeled as "natural". [1] Shortly after, Hansen's Natural Corporation announced they had already removed high fructose corn syrup from their recipes, due to consumer demand.[3]

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