Review: Slice Dirty Sodas Certainly Did Me Dirty

Slice soda's legacy dates back to 1984, and while it fizzled out for some time, the soft drink rose from the dead to ultimately take on La Croix, reborn as a more gut-friendly option. The brand attempts to cash in on the popularity of probiotic sodas that tout themselves as being better for you than other varieties of soda. Many of these brands swap out traditional cane sugar for plant-based sugars like stevia, but one of the biggest draws is a pre or probiotic mixture of some kind. In this case, Slice uses prebiotics, probiotics, and postbiotics. 

What happens when you mix a probiotic soda with the dirty soda trend? Slice aimed to find out with two new releases. Typically, you'll find dirty soda combinations bring together soda flavors with creamer or other flavored syrups, like Taco Bell's dirty sodas or McDonald's new drinks do. Slice soda created its dirty soda by adding coconut-derived MCT oil. According to the brand, this addition should result in a creamy texture without the need to mix. Still, I wondered if this new dirty soda variety would be enjoyable to drink or if it was simply another attempt to cash in on the newest fad in sodas, fueled by the popular soda shops of Utah fame.

To taste the soda for myself, I hopped over to my local Target and picked up a can of each flavor. To determine if they were worth your time, I sipped each one and then made my decision based on how they tasted. I assessed whether the creaminess mixed well with the fruit flavor of the soda, in order to recommend whether or not to give these probiotic sodas a sip if you're craving a dirty soda.

I am a long-time fan of orange soda, heavily influenced by Kel's loud proclamations of love for the fizzy drink in the '90s seminal classic "Kenan & Kel" sketches. Today, I find myself frequently going for less fruit-forward tasting sodas, but I'm always willing to step back into my orange soda loving days for a bit of nostalgia. I wondered if the Slice orange dirty soda would capture the magic that is orange soda (with a little extra creaminess), or if it would leave me running to the grocery store to stock up on Orange Crush and vanilla coffee creamer.

The very first thing I noticed was that Slice's orange dirty soda smelled like Tang, taking me back to the days of a poorly mixed after-school beverage in YMCA care. Fortunately, it didn't taste like Tang, but like an oddly sweetened creamsicle. The attempt at creaminess came through in color with its slightly yellowish orange, oddly milky look, but as far as the flavor and mouthfeel, the soda didn't have a very smooth taste. The sweetness was off-putting and far too distracting and fake tasting.

While I am quite familiar with orange soda, I have less experience with strawberry soda. Still, in general, I enjoy strawberry-flavored items much more than I do orange ones, so I hoped the experience of the strawberry Slice dirty soda would deliver more of the flavor profile I enjoy.

Thankfully, the strawberry variety had a much better smell, and it reminded me of a classic strawberry Creme Savers hard candy. The flavor was much smoother with the strawberry profile and quite nice. While the orange had an extremely distracting sweetness, the strawberry successfully sweetened the drink to something much more appetizing without going over the top. I still didn't get an ultra-creamy sort of mouthfeel, and instead it was just a smoother strawberry taste. Like the orange variety, the strawberry had a murky sort of look, adding to the dirty soda vibe.

Though I definitely preferred the strawberry dirty soda flavor over the orange, I still didn't find it appealing enough to specifically seek it out in a grocery store. If you love visiting a soda shop to get a specialty dirty soda, I don't think you're going to find the same enjoyment from this canned probiotic beverage. In some ways, it reminded me of Mountain Dew's Dirty Cream Soda attempt. 

So many brands are trying to replicate the dirty soda magic in a ready-to-drink beverage, completely missing that the best part of a dirty soda is the creamy, unexpected combination of flavors. It's fun taking things that don't normally go together (like coffee creamer, soda, and flavored syrups) and mixing them all up. Canned beverages just can't replicate that, especially when they attempt to replace the creamer with oil, like Slice did here.

Still, if you are already a Slice soda fan, having two new flavor offerings will certainly be exciting, and if you enjoy the taste of the other sodas, these might fall in line with exactly what you anticipate from the brand. As someone new to the Slice soda world, I didn't find these to be anywhere as enjoyable as a regular fruity soda.

The two different flavors of Slice dirty soda had similar nutritional facts, but there were certainly some notable differences between them. The orange dirty soda contained 2% juice and 60 calories, 2 grams of fat, 11 grams of carbohydrates, 6 grams of dietary fiber, and 4 grams of sugar. One of Slice's claims to fame is that it uses fruit juice, so while 2% is pretty piddly for a key component of the brand's advertising, strawberry leans in a little more with 4%. It also contains 50 calories, 1.5 grams of fat, 11 grams of carbohydrates, 6 grams of fiber, and 4 grams of sugar.

Since the Slice brand is a probiotic soda, perhaps it's no surprise to see such a high content of fiber within the drink. The 6 grams included in the can account for 25% of your daily recommended fiber. However, it's important to take note if you regularly take a fiber supplement, because the additional fiber in the soda may change your nutritional planning for the day.

The dirty sodas from Slice hit Target shelves the first week of May 2026. I easily found them at my closest Target location in a refrigerated cooler. Since the soda is probiotic and contains active bacteria, it needs to remain refrigerated like many other probiotic soda brands, so don't go looking for it in the usual soda aisle beside Pepsi and Coke.

For now, Slice dirty sodas are exclusive to Target stores, but in subsequent months, this should change. According to the brand, distribution should amp up to more grocery stores, and in all likelihood, you'll find it beside other probiotic sodas in your favorite supermarkets and large retailers soon. As far as price, you'll find it comparable to other probiotic sodas, like Olipop and Bloom Pop. My Target location sold each can for $2.59, the same price as the rest of the Slice soda lineup.