SunnyD (named Sunny Delight prior to 2000) is an orange drink developed in 1963 by Doric Foods of Mount Dora, Florida, United States.
[4] As of 2020[update] in the United States:[5] In the middle of the 1990s, Sunny Delight sponsored an early internet contest promoting their beverage.
Initially appearing in 1996 and gaining widespread attention, the contest was repeated three times over the course of a year and a half, and over 4,000 prizes were awarded during each iteration, ranging from T-shirts to college scholarships.
the artificial sweetener sucralose has been added in combination with high fructose corn syrup, in order to cut the calorie count.
In December 1999, according to a report by BBC News, the negative publicity escalated when a Sunny Delight television commercial showing a snowman turning orange was released, at about the same time as reports of a four-year-old girl who experienced her skin turning orange – due to the product's use of beta-Carotene for color – after drinking an estimated 1.5 liters of Sunny Delight a day.
[14] In January 2024, the drink was the subject of BBC Radio 4's consumer programme Sliced Bread Presents: Toast, which discussed "why sales of Sunny Delight faltered in the UK after an extremely successful launch".