Mountain Dew x Trolli Mango Pineapple Punch: Price, Where to Buy & Zero Sugar

There are two of them this year, and the sugar-free one has more caffeine. Mountain Dew’s second Trolli collaboration is on its own site in both a full-sugar and a Zero Sugar version — last year’s was zero-sugar only — and PepsiCo’s own nutrition pages put the Zero Sugar version at 68mg of caffeine per 12 fl oz against 54mg for the regular.

The other thing worth knowing before you order: the prices showing up online are not shelf prices.

What is Mountain Dew x Trolli Mango Pineapple Punch?

A limited-edition Mountain Dew flavour built around the Trolli gummy brand. Mountain Dew’s own description is short and identical on both product pages: “Tropical flavors of mango, pineapple, and a hint of strawberry.”

It is the second year of the partnership, and it runs in both directions — Trolli sells a Mountain Dew-flavoured candy, which Target lists at $4.39 for a 12.3oz bag. That reverse product is easier to find right now than the soda is, which tells you something about how the two companies’ distribution differs.

The framing PepsiCo has used is that the drink is meant to be had alongside the sweets rather than instead of them. Whether that lands is a matter of taste; what it explains is why the flavour is fruit-forward rather than citrus-forward, which is unusual for a Mountain Dew line extension.

Is there a Zero Sugar version?

Yes, and it is a separate product with its own page and its own barcode. The full-sugar version carries GTIN 00012000260100 and the Zero Sugar version 00012000260155. The Zero Sugar description adds a single line to the same flavour copy: “A refreshing twist, now with zero sugar.”

This is the change from last year. Press coverage of the 2025 collaboration describes it as zero-sugar only; this time both exist.

For a shopper, the practical consequence is that you have to read the can rather than assume. Both versions share the same artwork family and the same flavour name, and the only reliable difference on a shelf is the words “Zero Sugar” on the front. If you are buying a 12-pack for a household with different preferences, they are two separate SKUs with two separate barcodes and they will not be mixed in one box.

Which version has more caffeine?

The Zero Sugar one, by a clear margin. PepsiCo’s product facts give 68mg per 12 fl oz can for Zero Sugar and 54mg for the full-sugar version — about a quarter more.

The bottom two rows are the point. This is not something the collaboration did — Mountain Dew Zero Sugar carries more caffeine than Mountain Dew right across the line, and the Trolli versions land within a rounding error of their respective parents. If you are switching to the sugar-free can to cut something out, caffeine is not it.

We checked those two controls precisely because two products cannot tell you whether a gap is a pattern or an accident. Had the standard pair come back level, the honest conclusion would have been that this collaboration was formulated differently. They did not, so the honest conclusion is the duller and more useful one: the sugar-free can of this is the sugar-free can of anything else in the range.

What sizes does it come in?

12 fl oz and 20 fl oz, according to the package sizes listed on PepsiCo’s product facts pages for both versions. The 12 fl oz cans are sold in 12-packs; the 20 fl oz is a single bottle.

Those two sizes are also the two shopping decisions. The bottle is the low-commitment way to find out whether you like a flavour that will be gone by winter; the 12-pack is the one worth waiting for a shelf price on, because it is where an online markup does the most damage.

How much does it cost?

That depends entirely on who is selling it, and the online listings are the expensive way. On Walmart the product page routes through seller options rather than a single shelf price. The variant tiles showed 12.5 cents per fl oz for a single 12-pack, $34.99 for two and $64.00 for four.

For scale, a plain Mountain Dew 24-pack of 12 fl oz cans showed $10.97 in the same search. Reduced to a common unit, that is 3.8 cents per fl oz for ordinary Mountain Dew against 12.5 cents for the collaboration — about 3.3 times the rate, for the novelty of a launch-week can.

Buying more does not fix it. The two-pack works out at 12.1 cents per fl oz and the four-pack at 11.1, so the bulk tiers shave a fraction off a price that is several times shelf rate to begin with. The strikethrough figures on those tiles — $35.94 and $83.96 — are discounts against a starting price that was never a shelf price either.

Where can you buy it?

In shops, mostly, and that is the answer that saves you money. This is a mainstream PepsiCo product going into ordinary retail distribution, not an allocated drop. Mountain Dew’s own site has a Find Near You tool on each product page, which is the sensible first stop.

Of the retailers checked on 25 August: Walmart lists it through seller options; Target was not listing the soda at all, returning only Trolli candy for the search; Kroger’s search returned an error rather than results, so nothing can be concluded there. Press coverage also reports 20 fl oz bottles at participating Pizza Hut locations from 24 August through October — Pizza Hut’s own site blocked us, so treat that one as reported rather than confirmed.

The pattern in that list is worth reading rather than skipping. A launch-week limited edition typically reaches convenience stores and grocery chains before it reaches the big-box online catalogues, and the online listings that do appear early are frequently resellers buying off the same shelves you can. A store that has not listed it online today is not a store that will not have it on Friday.

Is it spicy?

No. The flavour is reported to have been developed alongside Trolli’s Spicy Crawlers — the pineapple, mango and strawberry habanero varieties — but the soda itself is not spicy, and Mountain Dew’s own description mentions no heat at all. It lists mango, pineapple and a hint of strawberry, and nothing else.

How long will it be around?

Reported as August through October. That window comes from press coverage rather than from PepsiCo, and neither Mountain Dew’s product pages nor its product facts entries carry an end date.

What the product pages do tell you is that this is a normal retail item while it lasts. The rational move is to check the Find Near You tool, buy it off a shelf at soda prices, and let the marketplace listings find someone else.

If you do want to stock up rather than sample, the thing to watch is not a sell-out date but the shelf-price window. Limited-edition sodas are cheapest in the middle of their run, once distribution has caught up with the launch coverage and before shops stop reordering. On a stated August-to-October window, that middle is September — which is also when the online markups usually collapse, because the resellers who bought the launch week have to compete with the shelves again.