If you dread a brainworm—not the RFK Jr. kind, the musical kind—tasting every Fanta flavor is risky business. For real, I’ve been walking around for several days singing “Don’t you wanna wanna Fanta” and everyone in my life wanna wanna kill me. Turns out it’s a lot cuter and cooler when the Fantanas do it.
When I set out to taste every Fanta flavor, it immediately became clear that this taste test was going to be a toughie. There are a couple of Fanta flavors that are so elusive, even the PR folks at Coca-Cola couldn’t locate bottles for us. So what we have here is every Fanta flavor ranked, minus Pina Colada and Berry—if you get your hands on those, you can tell us in the comments if they’re delicious. The good news is that we were able to get our hands on seven flavors of Fanta, including the new limited edition Fanta Haunted Apple, aka the Beetlejuice Fanta. So, which are the best Fanta flavors and which did we wanna wanna toss? Read our ranking to find out.
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- Fanta Haunted Apple
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I took a sip of Fanta Haunted Apple and started laughing. It’s just so insane. It tastes like a really bad fall candle smells. It’s very sweet and apple-y, but there’s also some caramel flavor in there, which makes it even more cloyingly sweet. Do I detect cinnamon, too? Maybe. It’s all a bit much, and that’s coming from someone who had the ICEE version of this flavor at an AMC movie theater and kind of liked it. The ice must temper the sweetness a bit. Anyway, I’m glad that Fanta is celebrating the release of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice—the movie gets 7.5 Sporks but this soda only gets 4.
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- Fanta Orange Zero Sugar
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When we asked for every Fanta flavor, this was the only diet Fanta in the mix. And, for a diet soda, it’s really pretty good. But since this is going head to head with a bunch of full sugar Fanta flavors, sorry, but it was sort of set up for a loss. It tastes a lot like Fanta Orange, but there’s something about the alternative sweeteners that dulls some of the appealing tang. And then, of course, there’s the lingering if modest aftertaste. It’s not a dealbreaker, especially if you’re accustomed to drinking diet soda, but it can’t hang with the rest of these sugary bad boys.
- Fanta Grape
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Grape Fanta is good, but the artificial grape flavor is so concentrated that it’s almost syrupy. Do I mean cough syrupy? Perhaps, although I kind of love Dimetapp. But I suppose I wouldn’t want to guzzle an entire bottle of the stuff. Ultimately, this lacks the brightness of the best Fanta flavors on this list, so it ranks a little lower.
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- Fanta Strawberry
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If you really love those strawberry hard candies—the ones that come in metallic wrappers that look like little strawberries and have strawberry goo in the center—you’re really going to love Fanta Strawberry. It’s very nostalgic, but it’s also very sweet. Some of the other Fanta flavors on this list have more nuance.
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- Fanta Orange
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Fanta Orange is one of our favorite orange sodas (it’s #2 on that list). It’s very good. As my colleague Jordan Myrick said, it’s “crisp, sweet, and tasty,” and has a really pleasant, very iconic fake orange flavor. My gripe? It isn’t as fizzy as I’d like a very sweet orange soda to be. Still delicious, but the two best Fanta flavors on this list are such fun novelties, an orange soda needed to be flawless to make the grade.
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- Fanta Peach
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Peach Fanta is incredible. The flavor is like a cross between peach ring gummies and actual juicy canned peaches in syrup. It’s a little fake, but there’s some authenticity there, too. It’s like peach pie filling. How good does that sound? It’s also pretty unique. You just don’t see a lot of peach soda out there—and that’s a bummer, because this is one of the best Fanta flavors, for sure.
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- Fanta Pineapple
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Pineapple soda doesn’t even really sound good to me, but this stuff handily beat out every Fanta flavor we tasted. I made my colleague Justine Sterling take a sip and she said it tastes like if you carbonated the syrup inside a can of pineapple chunks, but then took it back and said that it actually tastes even fresher than that. It’s really spectacular. If you happen to see bottles of this yellow soda at the grocery store or gas station, buy it. Try it. Drink it on a hot summer day and tell me you aren’t totally hooked. It’s the best Fanta flavor and one of my new favorite sodas, period.
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