Cherry Lee Natural Soda (with good karma!)

Did you know that one of the best remedies for insomnia, is apparently a glass of tart cherry juice? We’re not sure if a cherry soda is the same, but it’s got to be healthier than a can of artificially-sweetened soda, hasn’t it?

Karma Drink’s Cherry Lee Soda is made with real cherries and Fair Trade sugar, which helps farmers in Sierra Leone to earn a fair price for their crops. Find it in shops everywhere (it’s also sold at train stations and airports).

Always pop the ring-pull back over the hole before recycling, to avoid wildlife getting trapped.

This new flavour is from the brand that brought us Fair Trade organic cola.

If you like the taste of Lilt or Rio, try their new Tropikool fair trade soda, a fruit blend of mango and passionfruit. Not local, but still a step up from the main tropical drink players. And again this is free from artificial sweeteners.

Why Do Most Sodas Have Artificial Sweeteners?

Most main brands have now added in disgusting-aftertaste artificial sweeteners (same with fruit squash) to try to eek more profits, due to the upcoming sugar tax.

One critic of the new recipe for Ribena (a vitamin-C-rich blackcurrant squash developed to during World War II, when citrus fruits were not available) wrote ‘Adding sweeteners to Ribena was intended to reduce our sugar intake. This has worked, as I no longer buy Ribena!’