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The gut aisle’s fizz · 4 min
Kombucha is a soda with a story
A fermented tea can be a short list. Most bottles on the fridge shelf are sugar, flavour, and a probiotic claim. Scan before you call it medicine.
Shop the Drinks aisleWhat fermentation actually did
Tea, sugar, a culture. Some sugar is eaten. What remains is still sugar. Live cultures may or may not survive the warehouse. A shot of sauerkraut brine is a more honest ferment.
Hard seltzer’s cousin
Juice, flavour, 8 g of sugar, a wellness word. Gut sodas and ‘prebiotic’ colas are the same trick as vitamin water. If you like the taste, fine. Do not pay a supplement price for a soda score.
How to shop it
Tea, culture, low sugar. Or water. Scan the bottle. If the extras and the teaspoons look like a cola, it is a cola.
The extras we mean
On our shelves
Real packs. Tap one — the score is the same as the rest of the shop.
