A revised formula was created by Bill Bridgforth in 1959. Notable variants include Diet Mountain Dew, Baja Blast, Code Red, LiveWire, Voltage, Major Melon, and Spark.Ī citrus-flavored soda developed in the 1940s by Barney and Ally Hartman, beverage bottlers in Tennessee.
Mountain Dew, a citrus-flavored carbonated soft drink now owned by PepsiCo, has had numerous branded flavor variants since the original formula's creation in 1940.
