Cherry Pepsi

What Taco Bell says it is

In the brand’s words: “The perfect blend of classic Pepsi-Cola taste with a twist of bold, sweet, and effervescent Cherry flavor.”

The two calorie figures

The ordering menu prints a calorie figure of zero for Cherry Pepsi. That zero is not a figure: the size is chosen on the product page, so the category listing has nothing to count until it is. The nutrition menu carries three records for it, 16 fl oz at 210 calories, 20 fl oz at 260 calories and 30 fl oz at 390 calories.

This page treats the zero as what it is and prints the record for the first size instead; every ranking on the site does the same. Two notes from the nutrition guide apply to every fountain drink: “Nutrition values for fountain beverages do not account for ice.” “Depending on the sodium content of the water where the beverage is dispensed, the actual sodium content may be higher or lower than the listed values.”

Where it was listed

Cherry Pepsi: listed at 173 of the 452 restaurants read, in 40 states, read 19 September 2026. That makes it a regional item, on some menus and not others. Most often in Michigan (ten of the ten restaurants read there), Wisconsin (nine of the nine restaurants read there) and North Dakota (nine of the ten restaurants read there). The other eleven states had no listing on the read date, which is why the by-state table above is short.

South Carolina had the lowest state median, $2.19; Virginia the highest, $3.29. A state median stands on ten restaurants at most, so a single expensive or cheap restaurant moves it; the national range is the safer figure. Pick a state on the board or on the prices by state page and the ticket on every page prices its lines at that state’s medians beside the national range.

What the price buys

By median price Cherry Pepsi ranks 6th of 35 in Drinks. The section median is $2.99, so it is $0.20 below it. At the median price it costs $1.33 per 100 calories.

Taco Bell’s Happier Hour page says: “Get any Regular Freeze or Medium Fountain Drink for just $1 during Happier Hour, every day from 2 to 5 PM at participating locations.” That window is a time-of-day price, not the list price, and it is stated by the brand rather than read from a menu, so it sits in this sentence and not in the range above.

The record against a day

Against a 2,000 calorie day, Cherry Pepsi is 10 percent of the calories and 2 percent of the 2,300 mg sodium limit the FDA uses for the daily value. Sugars are 56 g, of which 56 g are added.

The Drinks median for sodium is 70 mg; this one is 45.

The daily values are the guide’s own yardstick: “The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend limiting saturated fat to 20 grams and sodium to 2,300 milligrams for a typical adult eating 2,000 calories daily.”

Allergens and certification

Taco Bell publishes no allergen statement for Cherry Pepsi: it is not in the allergen tool and its record carries no allergen table. This site never marks an item free of anything without a statement, so it sits out of every allergen filter here. The guide’s general note still applies to it: “Peanuts, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish are not used in regular menu items served in Taco Bell restaurants.”

Ways to change it

One add-on is offered; the heaviest is Make it Dirty at no calories. The removable components and what each carries: Ice (no calories). Size prices were read at two restaurants for this page: Small $2.89 to $3.19, Medium $2.99 to $3.29 and Large $3.29 to $3.39. The line’s own range above stands on 173.

The option calories are the ordering menu’s own figures for the option, printed as it prints them; a swapped build is not a nutrition record, so the panel on this page stays the item as published. Option prices were read at two of the restaurants and are printed with that count, never as a national figure.

Next to it on the board

Against its neighbors in Drinks: Mountain Dew Baja Midnight has 10 calories more and $0.20 more at the median; Starry has 10 calories fewer and $0.20 more at the median; Mtn Dew has 10 calories more and the same median price.

Guides and comparisons that mention it

• Does Taco Bell have Coke or Pepsi?
• What drinks are a dollar at Happier Hour?
• Happier Hour: the window, the $1 drinks and Freeze prices