How to read expiry dates for Dr Pepper Snapple Group drinks
The bottlers behind Dr Pepper Snapple Group in the US have made it hard for consumer to read expiry date
Use our Expiry date Calculator
We have rolled out an easy to use calculator, to calculate the shelf life of your Dr Pepper Snapple Group drinks
All you need to enter is the code found on your drink (example; D1106HX) and type of drink (such as; Glass, bottle, zero or diet)
Check out the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Expiration Date Calculator here
Where's the expiry date?
There's no expiry date on the product itself, but you'll find an manufacturing date and if you've an manufacturing date that looks like this D1106HX, it's not exactly straight forward on how to read it and there's no information on the product either on how to read it
The process is the same for all drinks bottled by Dr Pepper Snapple Group in the United State, using this format. Just remember shelf life can vary by product type / brand
Converting to date
As you can see on the picture above and text below, the breakdown of the meaning
First letter = Month (A = January, B = February, C = March, D = April, E = May, F = June, G = July, H = August, J = September, K = October, L = November and M = December)
First digit = Year (last digit of year), meaning 1 indicates year's ending on 1. Such as; 2001 / 2011 / 2021 (in our case) / 2031
Next three digits = Day of year (106 = April 18th)
Last two letters = Bottler (factory where it was produced)
D1106 translate to manufacturing date 18-APR-2021, while HX is the factory (bottler) where it was produced
Shelf life
Now we've finally gotten the manufacturing date, but when does it expire? For this we need to check the website of the product, to get shelf life
Dr. Pepper shelf life
Glass & Cans with Sugar or High Fructose Corn Syrup Sweetener: 9 months or 39 weeks
Bottles with Sugar or High Fructose Corn Syrup Sweetener: 4 months or 16 weeks
Zero Sugar: 4 months or 16 weeks
Diet: 3 months or 13 weeks
Shelf life was found in the FAQ section of Dr. Pepper's website (no longer listed there)
Snapples shelf life
Snapples operate with 6 and 12 month shelf life, but we haven't found exact shelf life per product type
Expiry Date
Now we've gotten the manufacturing date of 18-APR-2021 and as this is a Dr. Pepper Zero product, it has a shelf life of four months. That means expiry date will be 18-AUG-2021
Stores will use a similar chart as seen above, when they refill and remove products from the shelf. If current month is September, then for 4 months shelf life, they'll remove removed product that starts with letter D (Manufactured in April)
Bonus
Below the manufacturing date, you might see something like this L40217. L4 indicate which shift made it (shift four in this case) and the remaining digits is time in 24:00hr clock format. In this case time was 02:17am
If there's only one shift making Dr. Pepper. There won't be any shift listed, only the time when it was made. Meaning this batch of Dr. Pepper was made 18-APR-2021 02:17am by shift four
