The best Dr Pepper flavor tastes like Dr Pepper—duh!
Famously, Dr Pepper managed to combine 23 flavors to create the perfect beverage. I am a Dr Pepper devotee. I would drink it in place of water if I could. To me, it is truly the most delicious beverage on the face of planet earth. While I’m a purist and typically stick to the classic Dr Pepper, there are many other Dr Pepper flavors to wet your whistle, from Strawberries & Cream to Cherry. We tried every Dr Pepper flavor currently on the market and ranked them from worst to best. Dr Pepper drinkers, scroll away!
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- Dr Pepper Strawberries & Cream
Strawberries & Cream Dr Pepper is the newest addition to the lineup of Dr Pepper flavors. Unfortunately, it doesn’t taste anything like Dr Pepper at all, so I don’t really see the point. It tastes like a very strong strawberry soda. If you’re a strawberry fan, check it out. If you’re looking for Dr Pepper, leave this one on the shelf.
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- Diet Dr Pepper
Lots of people say Diet Dr Pepper is the best diet soda of all time because it tastes most similar to its non-diet counterpart. I agreed with this until I tried the zero sugar Dr Peppers. This still isn’t bad, but I don’t know why you’d buy it when the zeros are so much better. That being said, I still respect all the Diet Dr Pepper stans out there.
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- Dr Pepper Cherry Zero Sugar
We felt that Cherry Dr Pepper Zero Sugar tasted even more cherry-forward than regular Cherry Dr Pepper. If you’re a big cherry fan, grab one of these! It’s not my favorite of the Dr Pepper flavors, but it’s certainly much, much better than most diet sodas.
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- Dr Pepper & Cream Soda Zero Sugar
If you like cream soda, you like Dr Pepper, and you want a diet soda, you’ll like this. The taste is slightly different than the regular Cream Soda Dr Pepper and it does have a little bit of a chemical finish, but it’s certainly not bad. I think people who regularly drink diet soda would love this.
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- Dr Pepper Cherry
I don’t totally get Cherry Dr Pepper, but I respect it. In my opinion, Dr Pepper already has enough cherry. When you add in more cherry, it offsets the balance a little. It becomes Cherry Dr Pepper when maybe it should be Dr Pepper Cherry. It does taste really good, though! That’s why it’s the fourth best Dr Pepper flavor we tried.
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- Dr Pepper & Cream Soda
With this variety of Dr Pepper, you get 24 different flavors thanks to the addition of cream soda. To me, this tastes like cream soda mixed with Dr Pepper, which is exactly what you’re looking for if you’re buying Dr Pepper Cream Soda. This is one of the Dr Pepper flavors that I would buy with my own money and consume again.
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- Dr Pepper Zero Sugar
Dr Pepper Zero Sugar is the best diet soda because it tastes almost exactly like normal Dr Pepper. I absolutely hate diet soda and was shocked by the similarities between this and Dr Pepper made with sugar. There’s a very minimal diet-beverage sort of taste, and I think you might not even notice it if the soda was served freezing cold over ice. I would drink this, and I can’t really say that about any other diet soda on the market.
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- Dr Pepper
Duh. Obviously. No surprise. Dr Pepper is the best Dr Pepper flavor out there. I truly believe that it is the best soda in the world and cannot be improved upon. Yes, the other flavors are fun and tasty and great for when you want to mix it up. The original, however, is sheer perfection and the best of any of the Dr Pepper flavors.
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