The best Mountain Dew flavors (or Mtn Dew flavors, if you’re pressed for time) are sweet, carbonated, and give you a boost of sugary energy so strong that you could win in a fist fight against the sun. Bad Mountain Dew flavors are a neon headache in a can. We tried every Mountain Dew flavor we could get our hands on (including Baja Blast flavors) and ranked all 17 from worst to best.
After three taste tests, this ranking of Mountain Dew flavors continues to be a work in progress. See, Mountain Dew flavors are being released and discontinued all the time. We’re still on the hunt for full sugar Spark, as well as the new and returning Game Fuel flavors. So, bear with us. This is not a complete list of every Mountain Dew flavor—but it is a lot of them.
If you’re new to the wide world of Mountain Dew flavors and looking for the best Mountain Dew flavor to try first, this list is a good place to start. And if you’re just looking to get into a fight because we ranked what you believe to be the best Mountain Dew flavor far too low on this list, then we’ll see you in the comments.
Here are 17 Mountain Dew flavors, ranked from worst to best.
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- Mountain Dew Voltage
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Put this Mountain Dew flavor in a hummingbird feeder. This is so sweet it should not be consumed by humans! (Don’t actually feed it to hummingbirds; I’m not sure what they’re allowed to eat.) It’s supposed to be blue raspberry and citrus flavor, apparently, but there’s no tang whatsoever. Something had to be the worst flavor of Mountain Dew, and Mountain Dew Voltage is it. — Jordan Myrick
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- Diet Mountain Dew
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Diet Mountain Dew is so inferior to Mountain Dew Zero. I’m not even sure why Diet Mountain Dew exists. If you’re into this, I’m sure you have your reasons and you should keep drinking it. If you’re looking for a low-calorie Mountain Dew option that doesn’t taste strongly of artificial sweeteners, this is not the best Mountain Dew flavor for you. There’s a better one out there. — Jordan Myrick
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- Mountain Dew Major Melon Zero
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This extremely pink Mountain Dew flavor purports to be “charged with watermelon,” which is pure gibberish. And while I appreciate that, it’s simply far too sweet to have more than one sip. It smells and tastes like a watermelon Jolly Rancher, but it has that telltale fake sugar flavor at the finish. If you insist on drinking this watermelon Mountain Dew flavor, stick to the full sugar version. — Justine Sterling
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- Mountain Dew Major Melon
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Major Melon (though better than Mountain Dew Major Melon Zero) is way too sweet. The watermelon flavor is super artificial. There’s really no reason to buy this Mountain Dew flavor. There are way better versions of melon soft drinks out there. (We’re big fans of the Watermelon Lime Olipop.) — Jordan Myrick
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- Mountain Dew Baja Blast Zero
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The original Mountain Dew Baja Blast is shockingly subtle in flavor (not a sentence I ever thought I’d write). It’s very sweet, yes, but it’s too nuanced to be turned into a diet soda. All Mountain Dew Baja Blast Zero tastes like is generic diet soda. It’s sweet and bland. — Justine Sterling
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- Mountain Dew Frost Bite
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Mountain Dew Frost Bite is a forgettable Mountain Dew flavor. I had to go back to my notes multiple times just to remember what it tastes like. I have a good memory, especially when it comes to soda, so that’s saying something. It’s mostly just sweet (it’s supposed to taste like “cool melon”). It’s certainly not one of the best Mountain Dew flavors, but I do like the shark on the label! — Jordan Myrick
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- Mountain Dew Thrashed Apple
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We’ve finally reached the start of the best Mountain Dew flavors—the ones we’ll willingly drink again. Mountain Dew Thrashed Apple actually tastes like a green apple! It’s super sweet, but it has a nice tartness that balances it out. I wouldn’t make this my everyday Mountain Dew flavor, but it is nice and definitely something you should reach for if you love green apples. — Jordan Myrick
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- Mountain Dew Zero
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Mountain Dew Zero is actually pretty good. Typically, I don’t like diet soda but I didn’t mind this. Make sure you buy Mountain Dew Zero (a lower calorie Mountain Dew that tastes similar to the real deal) and not Diet Mountain Dew (a gross drink that tastes like fake sweetener). — Jordan Myrick
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- Mountain Dew Code Red
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Mountain Dew Code Red is not for me, but I cannot deny that it’s good. I don’t typically like cherry, but this soda does cherry right. If a cherry hater can enjoy this, it has to be good! The cherry flavor is sweet, fruity, and refreshing. I get why so many people go hard for Mountain Dew Code Red! It’s up there with the best Mountain Dew flavors. — Jordan Myrick
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- Baja Point Break Punch
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Dropped in March of 2024 as part of the 20th Bajaversary (a time we all remember fondly), this limited edition Baja Blast variant tastes extremely fruit punchy. Like, it essentially tastes like Red 40. You have to like that extra-sweet, faux fruit flavor. It was a fun temporary addition to the Baja line-up, but I wasn’t too sad to see it go and I won’t be hunting it down on the Mountain Dew Discords. — Justine Sterling
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- Mountain Dew VooDEW (2024)
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Sporked Mountain Dew correspondent Tyler Bowers thinks this could be one of the best VooDEW flavors to date. It has a strong strawberry flavor, which Tyler likened to Strawberry Laffy Taffy or Strawberry Starbursts (the brand confirmed the mystery flavor was pink fruit candy). It’s sweet—very sweet—but it’s not saccharine. — Justine Sterling
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- Mountain Dew Baja Blast
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I expected Mountain Dew Baja Blast to be a punch of flavor in my face. But it’s actually quite gentle, much like its beautiful, pale teal hue. It’s a hard flavor to pin down. It doesn’t taste like anything from nature. If pressed, I’d say it tastes like fruit punch, if said fruit punch were created by an alien who had never actually tasted fruit punch, but had someone describe it to him. One thing’s for sure: It’s very, very sweet. But it’s not as one note as Mountain Dew Baja Blast Zero. There’s some acidity. Even though it’s not the best Mountain Dew flavor, it’s a welcome addition to the permanent in-store line-up. — Justine Sterling
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- Mountain Dew Baja Laguna Lemonade
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This limited time Baja Blast flavor was released alongside Baja Point Break Punch in March of 2024 in celebration of the 20th Bajaversary. And I really think they should bring it back as a permanent Mountain Dew flavor. It’s advertised as a mango lemonade flavor and it really tastes like mango. It’s tropical and, though it doesn’t taste like lemon, it does have some bright, zippy, orange soda-esque acidity. Bring it back! — Justine Sterling
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- Mountain Dew Spark Zero
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This Mountain Dew flavor is one of the best diet sodas I’ve ever had. It’s sweet and tart and a little sour. It is supposed to taste like raspberry lemonade and it actually does. So many of the new Mountain Dew flavors are way too sweet, but this one is just right. — Jordan Myrick
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- Mountain Dew Pitch Black
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This is one of the most beloved of all Mountain Dew flavors and I get it. Pitch Black is good! It was discontinued and then brought back because fans love it so much. It was formerly described as “Black Grape” but is now “Dark Citrus.” I don’t really know what either of these names mean, but I taste both grape and citrus in Pitch Black. I would happily drink a glass of this again. — Jordan Myrick
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- Mountain Dew Original
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Until our most recent Mountain Dew flavor taste test, we had the original Mountain Dew as the best Mountain Dew flavor. It’s so sweet and citrusy and refreshing. If you don’t like the original Mountain Dew, why are you even reading this list?! But there is a better Mountain Dew flavor out there… — Jordan Myrick
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- Mountain Dew Purple Thunder
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Originally launched as a Circle K exclusive, you can now get this purple Mountain Dew flavor at Kroger-owned stores. It’s purported to be a berry-plum flavor, though it tastes pretty grape-y to me. Whatever the actual flavor, it’s so good. It’s sweet, for sure, but it has enough acidity to balance out the sugar, which is often lacking in Mountain Dew flavors. And the color? It’s gorgeous. It’s a beautiful violet—not the color of anything you should put in your body but beautiful all the same. I know people are going to come after me, but this really is the best Mountain Dew flavor out there (until our next taste test of every Mountain Dew flavor, of course). — Justine Sterling
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Voltage
Diet Mtn Dew
Major Melon Zero
Major Melon
Baja Blast Zero
Frost Bite
Thrashed Apple
Mtn Dew Zero
Code Red
Point Break Punch
VooDEW
Baja Blast
Laguna Lemonade
Spark Zero
Pitch Black
Original
Purple Thunder
I was shocked that Mountain Dew was not in my last Walmart + delivery. What the hell happened!? Is Mountain Dew going away for good!!? I used to go through 6, 2 liter bottles a week, but cut down to 4, 2 liter bottles a week. Then I got to just 2, 2 liters a week, Now the Walmart where I buy my groceries each week, didn’t have any regular Mountain Dew at all!? I needed to stop drinking sweets because I have become a type 2 diabetic. But I haven’t quite sugar all together. I still eat a little ice cream, an occasionally slice of cheesecake, So I think I’m doing good for anybody who grew up in the late 50’s and the 60’s, but I don’t want to see sugar put on the controlled substance list, but I have to be totally honest, it should be more controlled to a certain degree. If you ever wondered why so many of us gained weight as we got older and sugar is one of the reasons. Sugar shows up in so many of our comfort foods. And in foods where you can’t taste it but it’s there. Just read the labels on the packaging of everything you eat if you can pronounce them? Then there is chemo-farming. They were some families who I went to Sunday school as well as regular school, that had farms, and in North Carolina that meant tobacco or,”tabbica which is our word for the same thing”. But one Sunday one of the older sons of some of our, “farm folks”. was really amped up about chemo-farming. If you’re ever in Carolina and when you’re driving down one of our wonderful back roads and you drive past a tobacco field and see how each plant looked too perfect well you’ve just seen how chemo-farming works.The farmer’s use a low till systems, to of course to save fuel. Then there’s the shinny tanks around they’re buildings and the spraying equipment. The farmers had to invest a lot of money in these things. I am 67 years old now and can remember how things once were. Farming has always been a lot of hard work. In my 30’s I became an organic farmer not on a large scale, but it became one of my passions, along with growing roses, Man oh Man alive! I did Love doing that part of my life as a young man. Something else I noticed when I was much younger you could make yourself some money by helping the farmers harvest the tabacca in fact that was your first real job. Back then I wanted to be a primer I tried 2 years in a row but the three deadliest snakes were the Cottonmouth moccasins, the Copperhead pilots, and the scariest of all the Eastern Diamond-backed rattle snakes, the sound is something you never forgot. Before Pre-Emergent Herbicides, and changing the,”tobacco plants themselves”. Priming tabacca payed really well, but those tabacca plants with their broad leaves was a perfect place for a Copperhead, or a Diamondback to keep a little warm and wait for a mouse or rat to come along. By harvesting time there were so many weeds and vines that would grow up around the tabacca you couldn’t see your heads, so I never got to be a tadacca primer. How ever when I had grown up,”I was always a tall kid”. I got a job that payed as good as priming, I was the guy who lifted the tabacca sticks up took about 3-4 steps into the barn and lifted it up to the guy who was hanging the sticks. Loaded with wet tabacca up to who ever was hanging them from the rafters. But now if you ride along an old back road the tobacco fields are so beautiful, not a single stray blade of grass, each plant is just perfect. But the per-emergent herbicides gets washed into the cricks, creeks, rivers and finely into the sea. Then there the insecticides these things have made the American Farmers the most efficient and productive Farmers the world has ever seen. There is no way you could have the population of Humans that are at this very moment living on this perfect little planet, that we have been given. But because of the anti-science movement, plus the rise of stupidity as a virtue and the “unnatural Love of money”. It will collapse so suddenly and completely. The people of the Earth will not see it coming and they will never know what hit them. Of course some will survive, but they will soon envy the dead. The United States Navy has starter allowing young women to go to submariners school, that gives me some hope. And just like the young men who want to be submariners maybe 4 of 5 out of a class of 100 will make it through, not everyone who wants to be a submariner makes it. I have seen that someone is thinking ahead. There are storage sights where every seed and spore of every thing that grows on the Earth are stored and are being watched over. They’re even planning too.”save the weeds too”.That might seem crazy, even comical, but the first Farmers worked with weeds and over hundreds of thousands of years we have such a diversity of crop because some of these first Farmers had such patience, and “sweated the small shit”. We have made so many mistakes so many missteps, But we’re still here because we have earned “the right” to be here. I’ll close this ramblings of an old man, with the only way any of us are here right now. Is because somebody a long time ago, was willing to “sweat the small shit”. Good night and good luck, be patience plan ahead, learn something new every day, one day your life may depend on something you remembered. Dave the Wounded Bear
No LiveWire?! I don’t trust this list.
Why is a cherry hater writing up cherry? Any way, code red is tops
Right?!
Sheetz in PA, USA carries a fountain dew ‘Strawberry Goji.’ I don’t know if its available out there, but it’s defiantly worth of this list. Blows my tongue buds every time!
I don’t think the authors are Mtn Dew’s target audience, more mental than metal. Voltage is “too sweet” then their reasoning for their favorites is the sweetness… oooooookay.
Hello Jorand and Justine, I was wondering if you could explain how mountain dew voltage scored only a 4/10. It is my favorite soda and I believe you need to give it another honest try. Try to really focus on the notes of ginsing and blue raspberry. Your only complaint with the beverage was the sweetness but I think every soda you listed is equally, if not more sweet. Thank you
c’mon, everyone knows baja blast tastes like taco bell 🤣 (don’t they?)
I miss sam’s berry monsoon zepro, is there anything that taste like that ? I don’t want anything else. I was going to Sam’s twice a day sometimes just for that trying to sweet talk someone into letting me buy a fountain drink box of the stuff. Now I don’t go to Sam’s unless I have to. Bring it back before figure out how to make it myself!
Nobody wants pitch blacklytn dew with zero sugar that’s communists hey butcher a good product into something that won’t sell and take off market again
Cause it doesn’t sell I don’t know what Pepsi co is thinking it’s the second best seller bring it back to the line up or bring back pitch black 2
How about Distortion and Live wire ? I personally would put second and third respectfully.
I’m a Big dew junkie. I love trying out the latest flavors as soon as they come out. My favorites are the pitch black , every baja blast, livewire, and all the voodoo flavors. I wish they would keep my favorites in stores all the time!! Someday I would love to be a taste tester for mountain dew. That would be a great job: go to work and drink soda all day!!
What happened to the honey dew melon flavor
Absolutely not.
real
Frost bite should have been the worst. I couldn’t thing it was gross. The best Mountain Dew is Maui Burst (I think it’s a flavor exclusive to Dollar General)
I haven’t tried most on the list. Original Mt.Dew is still awesome. I don’t see Livewire (Orange flavor) on the list. Limited edition that should absolutely make the “full time” list.
Mtn dew pitch black and Baja Blast is my favorite drink
Now, WHERE IS PURPLE THUNDER? THATS LIKE THE BEST MTN DEW FLAVOUR EVER-
Idk if y’all make a website for certain ad revenue reasons but it would be nice for you guys to have an app. Love ur content and I love voltage but haven’t had it since I was kid I’ll have to re taste it to see if I agree with Jordon. Sorry one of ur commenters are complete ass over voltage tho. They need some grass.
Uproar is the best and Food Lion discontinued it, F*ck You Food Lion!
You shouldn’t be allowed to use the internet, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote, and most of all, you shouldn’t be allowed to ever let a drop of mountain dew touch your lips again. Voltage is the best drink ever created by mankind. It has a sweet, yet fruity flavor that satisfies every urge. Never make a list again.
STFU u spook
I think some of these people didn’t read the article. Baha blast is number 5. Learn to read folks!
Baja*
They know how to read. When this was originally posted in 2023, Sporked left off Baja Blast. They have since updated it.
Red white and dew is the best. Idk why y’all hatin on voltage, Dewmocracy flavors were the best. I think it’s generational cause Rhett and Link put cheez it grooves at bottom of list which is totally wrong. 90s baby here. Also dont sleep on white out either.
??? No live wire ?? Voltage as the worst??? What?? Lol I’m off this site
And nothing of value was lost.
Where is plum thunder
What about Mt Dew LiveWire, still available at some filling stations in Fl / in my humble opinion it’s right up there with Original and Baja Blast top 3 !!!!
Apparently this woman pumps out articles and then just moves on without giving two effs about the comments because more than one person has pointed out YOU SKIPPED BAJA BLAST. YOUR ARTICLE IS A COMPLETE FAIL. THAT IS THE MOST POPULAR MOUNTAIN DEW FLAVOR OF ALL TIME, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!? Someone please fire her.
dang right
And voo dew voo dew is the best (agree to disagree)
Yep, a lot of this content is just lazy. While they have finally come back and updated this review, it’s clear that they only care about the ad revenue
how can you leave out the most popular flavor, Baja Blast?
Number 5
They only just updated it. Sporked is is quite lazy with it’s reviews, churns them out for that ad revenue and moves on
I’m Baja Blast big fan only Taco Bell and store in gas station
What about livewire?! The orange one is one of the best and Baja Blast! Those are the best ones in my opinion!
You shouldn’t be allowed to use the internet, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote, and most of all, you shouldn’t be allowed to ever let a drop of mountain dew touch your lips again. Voltage is the best drink ever created by mankind. It has a sweet, yet fruity flavor that satisfies every urge. Never make a list again.
What happened to the pineapple coconut one
Have to agree with Denise Williams here, VooDew was great. Actually pretty reminiscent of sour candy. Baja Deep Dive was also pretty good (a mix between Baja Blast and Pitch Black), but sad to see Baja Blast wasn’t on the list. It’d easily be my #1 on the list, followed by Voltage. I think the original is the worst of the regular mountain dew flavors, as I find it overwhelmingly sweet to the point that if someone carbonated the syrup, I would not be able to tell besides the fact that it’d be thicker.
One of the things I liked about VooDew and that I like about Voltage is that there’s a bit of an extra acidity tang in addition to the flavor rather than only being extreme sugar. Plus, it’s hard to go wrong with Blue Raspberry. Maybe I’m just not a fan of artificial lemony flavors? I’d also rank the zeros/diet versions of everything below everything else, but that’s because most artificial sweeteners taste very bitter to me and overwhelm the taste of everything else.
I hate to be that guy but you’re missing baha blast!
THANK YOU! I’m glad someone is finally giving Pitch Black the respect it deserves! Just wish the people at PepsiCo would do the same and keep it around.
I love the Voodoo mt dew.
I got my hands on 25 12packs at a small store here in Sioux falls, SD. So I’m set on that pop.
I love Purple Thunder that’s only carried at Circle K.
Otherwise if like Mt Dew try may like them.
LIKE WHERE IS PURPLE THUNDER THATS THE BEST THING EVER