AriZona iced tea flavors fall into a few clear families: the iconic Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey, a row of black tea classics like Lemon Tea, Sweet Tea, Peach and Raspberry, a Half & Half iced-tea-and-lemonade blend, and a bright set of fruit juice cocktails such as Mucho Mango and Watermelon. AriZona is the American ready-to-drink brand known for big, tall, ornately illustrated cans, and its range is wide enough that almost everyone has a favorite. This guide walks through the whole lineup, grouped so you can find your way.
A quick note before we start: AriZona is a trademark of AriZona Beverages USA. We are an independent coffee and tea magazine, not affiliated with or endorsed by the brand. Everything below is offered as a factual reader's guide.
A quick AriZona brand snapshot
AriZona was founded in 1992 in Brooklyn, New York, by Don Vultaggio and John Ferolito, two business partners who had previously run a beer and soda delivery company. The launch product was a large 23-ounce iced tea can, and the brand became famous for keeping that big can at a low US price of 99 cents for many years. That 99-cent price is documented brand lore, part of AriZona's identity, and not a price you should expect to find on a shelf anywhere today; prices vary by market, pack size and retailer. We mention no other prices in this guide.
One detail surprises people: the "Arizona" name and the Southwestern, desert-sunset artwork are styling choices, not a claim of origin. The brand was born in New York. By the end of 1994 it was sold across all 50 US states, and AriZona iced tea flavors are now a fixture far beyond America, too.
The iconic AriZona iced tea flavors at a glance
The signature can, the one most people picture, is the Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey. It is built on a blend of green teas and finished with honey and ginseng extract, giving it a smooth, lightly sweet character that made it a flagship. If you only ever try one of the AriZona teas, this is the one most associated with the brand.
From there, the range opens up. Below is a grouped overview of the main families so you can see how the flavors relate to one another.
| Family | Examples | Base | Caffeine |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green tea | Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey | Green tea blend | Yes (modest) |
| Black tea classics | Lemon Tea, Sweet Tea, Peach, Raspberry | Black tea | Yes (modest) |
| Half & Half | Arnold Palmer-style iced tea + lemonade | Black tea + lemonade | Yes (lower) |
| White tea | Blueberry White Tea, Black & White | White/blend tea | Yes (modest) |
| Fruit juice cocktails | Mucho Mango, Watermelon, Fruit Punch, Grapeade | Fruit juice/puree | Usually none |
Black tea classics: Lemon, Sweet Tea, Peach and Raspberry
This is the heart of the AriZona tea flavors for many fans. These are black-tea-based drinks, sweetened, and built around one clear note each.
- Lemon Tea (often labeled simply "Lemon"): the brisk, lemony black iced tea that is one of the brand's most recognizable cans.
- AriZona Sweet Tea: a Southern-style real brewed sweet tea for people who like their iced tea genuinely sweet, with less of a fruit accent and more of that classic sweet-tea taste.
- Peach: black tea with a soft, summery peach flavor, a perennial favorite.
- Raspberry: black tea leaning tart and fruity, another long-running staple.
All of these are tea-based, so they carry some caffeine, generally a modest amount per serving rather than the jolt of a strong coffee. If you want to understand the leaf underneath them, our explainer on what black tea is covers how black tea is made and why it tastes the way it does.
Half & Half: the Arnold Palmer-style blend
AriZona's Half & Half is half iced tea and half lemonade, the combination famously associated with golfer Arnold Palmer. Because half the drink is lemonade rather than brewed tea, it carries less caffeine than a pure iced tea; AriZona lists only a small amount per can. The brand also offers Lite, Diet and Zero versions of this blend for people watching sugar or calories.
If the tea-and-lemonade idea appeals to you, it is easy to make a fresh version at home. See our guide to what an Arnold Palmer drink is for the story and the basic build, and how to make iced tea for the tea half done from scratch.
White tea and "Black & White" options
AriZona also brews a white tea line. Blueberry White Tea is one of the better-known cans here, lighter and more delicate than the black tea classics, with a gentle blueberry note. The "Black & White" and "Watermelon Drift" style cans blend black and white teas for something in between. White tea is the least-processed style of true tea, so these tend to taste softer and rounder than the bolder black tea flavors.
Fruit juice cocktails: Mucho Mango, Watermelon and more
Not everything AriZona makes is tea. The fruit juice cocktail line is built on fruit purees and juices rather than brewed tea, which means these are typically caffeine-free, a useful thing to know if you are avoiding caffeine or buying for kids.
- Mucho Mango: the standout, made with mango puree and pear juice, thick and tropical.
- Watermelon: a sweet, summery juice drink.
- Fruit Punch: the classic mixed-fruit flavor.
- Grapeade, Orangeade and Kiwi Strawberry: round out the fruit range.
These juice cocktails are often vitamin C fortified. Like much of the lineup, they are sweetened, frequently with high fructose corn syrup, so they sit firmly in the treat-and-refreshment category rather than the unsweetened-tea category.
Other AZ iced tea lines: Arnold Palmer co-brand, sparkling and water
Beyond the cans above, AriZona has branched into a few adjacent lines. There is a dedicated Arnold Palmer co-branded range of iced-tea-and-lemonade products, sparkling teas, flavored waters, and various seasonal and collaboration flavors that rotate over time. Limited editions and tie-ins come and go, so the exact AZ iced tea flavors on shelves shift from year to year, while the core teas above stay remarkably consistent.
Caffeine and sweetness: what to expect
Two practical points tie the whole range together. First, caffeine: the tea-based drinks (green, black, white, and Half & Half) contain some caffeine, generally a modest amount, while the fruit juice cocktails are usually caffeine-free. The amount per can is lower than a typical mug of coffee, and the Half & Half sits lower still because half of it is lemonade. Checking the label is the surest way to know what a particular can contains.
Second, sweetness: most AriZona drinks are sweetened, and the regular cans often use high fructose corn syrup. The brand also sells Zero, Lite and Diet versions of several flavors for those who want the taste with less sugar. Again, the label is the simplest way to know what you are getting.
How AriZona compares to other tea drinks
AriZona sits in the ready-to-drink, sweetened iced tea category, the same broad world as bottled sweet teas and tea-and-lemonade blends everywhere. It is not a hard seltzer or an alcoholic malt drink, which is a common point of confusion with similarly canned products; for that category see our guide to Twisted Tea, which is an alcoholic hard iced tea and a completely different thing. AriZona's standard teas are non-alcoholic soft drinks (the brand does also make a separate "Hard" line, clearly labeled).
The bottom line
The AriZona iced tea flavors range is really four easy buckets: the iconic green tea, the black tea classics, the Half & Half, and the caffeine-free fruit cocktails, plus a rotating cast of white teas, sparkling teas and limited editions on top. Knowing which family a can belongs to tells you most of what you need: how sweet it will be, whether it carries caffeine, and what it will taste like. If all this iced tea has you wanting to brew your own, our how-to-make-iced-tea guide is the natural next stop, or keep exploring the wider world of tea over on our tea hub.