High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Grapico is a caffeine free, artificially flavored carbonated soft drink with a purple color and a grape taste that is sold in the Southeastern United States. When introduced in 1914, the product quickly became a success, which in part was due to implying that Grapico contained real grape juice even though it did not. In the spring of 1926, J. Grossman`s Sons sold the Grapico business to New Orleans business Pan American Manufacturing Co. Pan American continued J. Grossman`s Sons` improper practice of implying that Grapico contained real grape juice and lost the right to use the word "Grapico" to designate their artificial grape drink in 1929.