7 Up used to contain mood enhancers

7 Up is a caffeine-free lemon and lime flavoured lemonade.

7 Up used to contain mood enhancers
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31.01.2022

7 Up was invented by Charles Leiper Grigg in 1929. At first, the product had the complicated name "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda" and was first sold two weeks before the Great Depression of 1929.

The name was later changed to 7 Up. It contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilising agent used in psychiatry for lithium therapy, until the late 1940s. 7 Up was marketed as a remedy for hangovers The name 7 Up is an allusion to the atomic weight of the element lithium, which is 7 rounded up.

In Germany and Austria, only 7 Up with lemon and lime flavour and 7 Up light are sold. In other countries, there is also 7 Up Cherry with cherry flavour, Diet 7 Up, Diet 7 Up Cherry and 7 Up plus in various flavours.