Cans: Sparkling Water with Real Fruits
Cans is an Austrian brand that decided to create a nice soft drink that was not saturated with sugars or artificial sweeteners. Instead, these contain just 3 ingredients:
- Alpine sparkling water
- Fruits from European orchards
- Natural flavourings
Check medication before consuming grapefruit or rhubarb. Never give sparkling water to to pets, it could cause bloat.
Before recycling, give a quick rinse (to remove sweet tastes) then pop ring-pulls back over holes (and pinch tops shut) to avoid wildlife getting trapped. If you drink a lot of canned drinks, you could set up an aluminium recycling program (also for clean foil). To raise funds for community projects.
How much water should we drink?
The average adult needs around 1.2 litres per day (more in hot weather or after vomiting or diarrhoea). That’s around six 200ml glasses. So drink two glasses when you wake up, have two more before lunch, and two more before dinner. Add more per glass of wine or beer, or per tea, coffee or cola.
Wash and rinse pet bowls daily. Avoid fizzy water or guzzling water after runs or car trips (to prevent bloat). Don’t let pets drink from puddles (due to bacteria, oil, antifreeze). For outdoor pets, ensure drip-feed bottles are not blocked or frozen.
Some people prefer plain still water. But many people won’t drink water unless it’s fizzy! So it’s far better to choose good brands, rather than sweet sickly drinks with fake flavours and artificial sweeteners.
In fact, sparkling waters now out-sell cola. Accidentally invented in a brewery in 1676, the first fizzy waters used the basic basic system of attaching a soda siphon to a gas canister. Nothing much has changed!
All drinks have zero sweeteners and calories, so a nice refreshing way to hydrate, instead of sugary sodas or artificially sweetened drinks.
Sold in easy-to-recycle cans, they are available in three flavours. You can buy in one-flavour or mixed cans of 24::
- Apple (with lemon & elderflower)
- Cherry (with lemon)
- Lemon (with lime)
The brand is already very successful, having sold over 1 million cans worldwide, realising that there is a huge market for people who want a fizzy soda, that is not overloaded with sweet sugar.
Cans Balance and Performance Drinks
Cans has recently launched two extra drinks (check medication due to herbs and avoid caffeine for pregnancy/nursing). Balance contains ginger for gut health and Performance contains the same caffeine as an espresso coffee).
