One Living is a quality brand of kombucha, a kind of ‘fermented fizzy tea’ with a tangy taste and gentle spark. It’s become popular due to its gut-friendly properties that deliver live cultures and enzymes for good digestion. Kind of like an alternative to eating yoghurt.
Avoid kombucha for pregnancy/nursing and weak immunity (including children and older people) due to drinks being unpasteurised. And containing small amounts of fermented alcohol and caffeine. Always buy quality kombucha drinks, as home brewing could risk bacteria and mould. Leave it to the experts!
These drinks are in various flavours including raspberry, passion fruit and ginger turmeric. This brand was founded by former rugby player Jonny Wilkinson (alongside his nutritionist wife), after discovering how good digestion plays a role in good mental health.
After the dizzying heights of victory at the World Cup, Jonny began to experience anxiety, which snowballed into severe depression. When they discovered how digestion is linked to chemicals in the brain that can affect depression, they came up with this idea. Today, he also lectures on the importance of men talking about mental health:
Undoubtedly my journey was about a disconnection with myself. I had this amazing house, I had everything I could possibly need. I was sat in that jacuzzi and could not have been less happy. I’ll take feeling calm and clear over everything. Find your stability in every moment. Jonny Wilkinson
Jonny’s company also makes canned water kefirs (all the fermented benefits, but without the goat milk). Choose from strawberry or lemon flavour.
Pop ring-pulls back over cans before recycling, to help avoid wildlife getting trapped.
More Gut-Loving Fizzy Sodas!
Dalston’s soda has recently released a Happy Gut range, created by chefs. These contain dietary fibre along with zinc, magnesium and calcium, for digestion, immunity and metabolism. Choose from Raspberry or Tropical.
Equinox Kombucha is an organic brand that sells rotating flavours on subscription like fiery ginger, white peach strawberry and raspberry elderflower. The founder gives 50% of all profits to local and global humanitarian and conservation projects.
Living Things is another prebiotic soda, blending real fruit juice and botanical extracts, with flavours to suit every mood.
- Rhubarb & Apple (check medication)
- Lemon & Ginger
- Peach & Blood Orange
- Raspberry & Pomegranate
- Watermelon & Lime
Genie Drinks makes kombucha sodas with real fruit, proper tea and live cultures. Brewed for around 21 days, flavours include apple (similar taste to dry cider), fiery ginger (a good mid-afternoon lift) and naturally sweet blueberry raspberry.
