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C.C. Lemon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ1022438 ↗
Source-derived summary

C.C. Lemon is a Japanese soft drink created by Suntory. It is known for its lemon flavor, and for its advertisements featuring characters from the American animated series The Simpsons.

Sizes

C.C. Lemon is available in multiple sizes. The quantity, type of container, and amount of vitamin C in lemons are provided in the table below.

Mascots

The Simpsons

The Simpsons have appeared in numerous commercials for C.C. Lemon. In Japan, The Simpsons are anecdotally better known for being featured in C.C. Lemon commercials than for their television show. References to the yellow color of the Simpsons is featured heavily in the marketing.

Along with the many television commercials, The Simpsons also appear on a wide range of merchandise for the product. The promotional items include 500 mL beverage holders, pens, coasters, magnets, lunchboxes, and foldable lawn chairs. The Simpsons also appeared on the 500mL bottles in their winter attire during the season of Christmas in 2001.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “C.C. Lemon” is single. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lemon and single, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1994, 1997-07-24—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Lemon and single is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1022438. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “C.C. Lemon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.