Idyll Sustainable Sodas (with foraged ingredients)
For those who love a cool sparkling drink on a warm day, Idyll Drinks bring something special to the table. These drinks focus on flavour, natural ingredients, and a fresh style that makes them stand out. 5p from each can is also donated to a rewilding charity.
Check medication before consuming grapefruit or rhubarb sodas (avoid hibiscus lemonade for pregnancy). Also avoid caffeine (cola) or follow NHS guidelines of no more than one a day.
Always pop ring-pulls back over hole before recycling, to avoid wildlife getting trapped.
Most sodas 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 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!’
Idyll Drinks are not afraid to mix things up. They combine fruits, botanicals, and herbs to create one-of-a-kind flavours that are carefully balanced. These aren’t your everyday sodas—they offer something new with every sip.
The range includes:
- Wild Gooseberry (berries from a regenerative Essex farm with South African wild rooibos)
- Wild Apple (with Herefordshire cider vinegar, sweet woodruff and hogweed seeds). Tastes like ‘apple infused with warming spices, orange zest and a hint of hay!)
- Wild Rhubarb (low-calorie alternative to rhubarb crumble, which is good too!) A refreshing take on classic cream soda, with meadowsweet and vanilla.
- Pine Forest Soda (Douglas Fir and Scots Pine – who ever thought of drinking a Christmas tree, but there you go! Nice with gin or serve in a whisky highball.
