Mountain Dew and Trolli are returning for a second annual limited-edition beverage collaboration, this time releasing Mountain Dew x Trolli Mango Pineapple Punch — a fizzy soda built around mango, pineapple, and strawberry flavor notes designed to pair with Trolli Spicy Crawlers gummi candy. PepsiCo confirmed the SKU hits U.S. retail shelves in 12 oz. cans and 20 oz. bottles starting August 24, with availability running through October.
Distribution & Retail Footprint
The launch covers both Regular and Zero Sugar formats across national grocery and convenience channels. A foodservice component places Regular 20 oz. bottles at participating Pizza Hut locations nationwide — a meaningful on-premise hook that extends brand visibility beyond packaged-goods aisles. A limited-edition bundled kit, combining one 20 oz. Regular bottle, one 20 oz. Zero Sugar bottle, and a 12 oz. bag of Trolli Spicy Crawlers, is available exclusively on Walmart.com while supplies last.
Year-Two Momentum
The 2025 debut — Mountain Dew x Trolli Cherry Lemon — set a performance benchmark that PepsiCo says informed this follow-up. Michael Smith, VP of Marketing for Mountain Dew at PepsiCo Beverages U.S., described the Cherry Lemon SKU as "one of the fastest-selling products in the Mountain Dew lineup" after its launch, citing the consumer appetite for cross-category collaborations as the driver behind a second edition. "This year, we're taking that idea even further with a sweet-and-spicy flavor twist that taps into a growing consumer trend while delivering the bold, one-of-a-kind experience fans expect from both brands," Smith said.
The sweet-and-spicy flavor profile is one of the more durable trend vectors in the non-alcoholic beverage and snack categories, showing sustained velocity in convenience and mass retail settings over the past several years. For PepsiCo, pairing a flagship carbonated soft drink with a confectionery brand from its broader partner network allows the company to generate incremental shelf placement and basket-building opportunities — particularly in impulse channels where Trolli Spicy Crawlers already carry strong turns. Chad Womack, Marketing Director at Trolli, framed the pairing as a way to show "consumers more ways to enjoy Trolli Spicy Crawlers" beyond standalone candy consumption.
The Pizza Hut placement is notable from a foodservice-strategy standpoint. Carbonated soft drink exclusives at quick-service and fast-casual chains have become a reliable trial mechanism for limited-time beverage SKUs, giving operators a differentiated menu item while providing the brand sponsor with high-frequency consumer touchpoints. PepsiCo has a long-standing supply relationship with Pizza Hut, making the activation a relatively low-friction extension of existing commercial agreements.
For retailers, the Walmart.com bundle kit represents a direct-to-consumer e-commerce play layered on top of brick-and-mortar distribution — a dual-channel approach that has become standard practice for limited-time beverage launches targeting younger, digitally native shoppers. The exclusive positioning on Walmart's platform also signals continued investment by PepsiCo in its mass retail partnerships at a time when the company has been navigating volume pressure across its North America beverage segment.
Written by Michael Politz, Author of Guide to Restaurant Success: The Proven Process for Starting Any Restaurant Business From Scratch to Success (ISBN: 978-1-119-66896-1), Founder of Food & Beverage Magazine, the leading online magazine and resource in the industry. Designer of the Bluetooth logo and recognized in Entrepreneur Magazine's "Top 40 Under 40" for founding American Wholesale Floral, Politz is also the Co-founder of the Proof Awards and the CPG Awards and a partner in numerous consumer brands across the food and beverage sector.
