Fanta started back in the World War II days when a trading ban was placed on Germany by the Allies. The Coca-Cola Company wasn’t able to import the syrup needed to produce Coca-Cola in Germany. Dr. Schetelig decided to create a new product for the German market instead of Coca-Cola which could be made using only ingredients available in Germany which at the time was mainly apple fiber and a by-product of cheese. It tasted of orange and was yellow colored.

The name Fanta comes from “fantasie” which is German for “imagination.” And obviously the creator needed a good imagination to think that cheese by-product and apple fiber would make a good drink. Now, the drink originally was not made to be orange flavored. The Nazi’s were trying to make an alternitve drink from coca cola. Now-a-days, the soda does not contain the by-producted cheese but some of the fanta’s do contain apples still.