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What's The Flavor Of Sonic's Popular Ocean Water?
By Kalea Martin
When Sonic opened in the 1950s, root beer was the restaurant's signature drink, but everything changed when Ocean Water was introduced.
The apparent appeal of the drink is that it tastes like the ocean. It's refreshing, cold, and blue, with a specific beach-like flavor that you can't quite put your finger on.
A Sonic employee revealed in a viral TikTok video that its flavor comes from a blue coconut syrup that is either made by Sonic or manufactured exclusively for the fast food chain.
However, almost every copycat recipe suggests it consists of coconut extract and blue food coloring.
In addition to the special syrup, Ocean Water also contains Sprite, supplementing the coconut flavor with fizziness and a slight lemony tang.
The powdered mix drink also gets its taste from a combination of other ingredients, including citric acid and other "natural and artificial flavors."