News; SunnyD releasing variety pack with 2 new fruity flavors of hard seltzer. Updated: ; Sep. 15, 2023, 12:25 p.m. | Published: ; Sep. 15, 2023, 10:53 a.m.

If you’re a 90’s kid, surely you remember SunnyD, the irradiated-looking orange beverage with the saccharine sweet taste. It was a staple of pool parties and picnics, the beverage equivalent ...

The nutritional label says Sunny D contains 60 calories, 190 milligrams of sodium, 16 grams of carbs and 14 grams of sugar per an 8-ounce serving.

Until this week, because Sunny D now comes in a boozed-up version. ... This tastes closer to a stevia-flavored orange soda -- the kind you'd pay $8 for a six pack of -- than a hard seltzer.

The Sunny D vodka seltzer also doesn't have the tinny flavor that many canned cocktails can pack. The result is one of the better canned beverages I've swigged in recent memory.

SunnyD's Watermelon and Lemonade flavors are currently being sold in both 6.75-ounce bottles and 64-ounce carafes at major retailers. So, who's planning to pour up a SunnyD cocktail this weekend?

Sunny D Beverages is launching a sort of oral equivalent of “scratch and sniff” that puts the flavor of SunnyD Smoothies on Peel ‘n Taste flavor samplers in a thousand Food Lion stores.