Healthy Drinks
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Mash
Mash is made from mashed fruit that has been mixed with carbonated water, so it’s carbonated like soda, but unlike soda it’s low in sugar. While one serving only has 25 to 40 calories, one 20 oz. bottle has three servings so this isn’t exactly a low calorie drink, but it is a more healthful alternative if you’re addicted to soda. It’s available in four flavors: Pomegranate Blueberry, Grapefruit Citrus Zing, Lemon Peel Ginger Root and Blood Orange Ripe Mango.
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OMilk
Dairy is a common inflammatory; now there are non-watery cashew and almond milk alternatives with OMilk. In addition to the brand's classic cashew and almond milks, they have seasonal flavors and cold brew coffee almond milk.
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Tracy's Perfect Performance Wellness Formula Shake
Trainer to the stars Tracy Anderson has launched her own performance drink that's said to give you energy, while promoting gastrointestinal health. Just mix it with fruit and milk (or a milk substitute) or try one of her shake recipes.
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Vitamin Squeeze
Vitamin Squeeze is a 0 calorie, 0 carb and 0 sugar line of flavored water enhancers. Made with antioxidants, essential vitamins, electrolytes and minerals, just squeeze any of the flavors into water for an added wellness and flavor boost.
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Bai 5
Bai 5 is a low-sugar, 5-calorie beverage made from organic coffeefruit (the antioxitant-rich casing that surrounds the coffee bean). GMO, gluten and soy-free, the light and refreshing drinks come in eight flavors, each of which have a low glycemic index so they won't give you a quick sugar spike and drop (they do, however, taste surprisingly sweet).
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Altar
Altar bills itself as the first premium herbal and botanical mood mixer. Made from fruits, heirloom vegetables, single estate teas, flowers and spices, most ingredients are organic and each ingredient has been carefully sourced to elicit a specific reaction — i.e. organic cherries to awaken the senses and organic vert du Vietnam green tea for energy. The product line was conceived by Jagatjoti Khalsa, who helped pioneer Yogi Tea into the first fully-organic medicinal tea line.
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Koa Organic Water
Koa Organic Water is the first and only organic water made from 100% juice — that's right, water made from juice and they have an awesome Kickstarter campaign going on right now.
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GT's Kombucha
Kombucha is a fermented tea said to help with everything from digestion to hair loss.
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Vintage TeaWorks
Looking for a more healthful alternative to wine? Vintage TeaWorks is a line of teas inspired by wine — think Green Tea Sauvignon or White Tea Riesling.
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Coco Libre
Coconut waters are a dime a dozen these days, but Coco Libre is the only one that's organic. Plus, in addition to the original and flavored options, they've got ones enriched with protein and chia.
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Real Beanz
Made with all-natural coffee beans, Real Beanz goes above and beyond your regular iced coffee by enriching each of their flavors with natural herbs to do everything from give you energy to help you relax. No artificial flavorings, colorings, sweeteners or preservatives are used.
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Choffy
Choffy is made of roasted and ground cocoa beans and you brew it just like coffee. Unlike coffee, however, it’s full of antioxidants (more than in a serving of blueberries) and doesn’t give you the caffeine crash that you sometimes get with coffee (it does naturally contain a gentle stimulant called Theobromine). It’s also low calorie, has no sugar, gluten, dairy or chemicals.
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Isopure
Noah Neiman is one of Isopure's featured trainers, which is how I heard about the brand. Among other things, they have a line of pre- and post-workout drinks loaded with protein, vitamins, antioxidants and energy fueling complex carbs.
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Powell & Mahoney
Unlike most other cocktail mixers, Powell & Mahoney's are free of high fructose corn syrup and a number of them, including Margarita and Blood Orange, are low in calories.
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Nuwi
Available in two flavors — Blueberry and Banana — Nuwi makes quinoa-based smoothies. Both flavors are free of genetically modified ingredients, have no added sugar (they're sweetened with organic agave nectar) and are rich in minerals, vitamins and amino acids.
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Owls Brew
Owls Brew is fresh brewed tea crafted specifically for cocktails. The cocktails end up having 1/3 of the calories of comparable ones and the teas are sweetened with all-natural agave, have no preservatives, concentrates or artificial flavors.
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Hard
Available in four flavors — Cola, Citron, Tonic Water and Club Soda — Hard can be had on its own or used as a mixer. Unlike most mixers lining supermarket shelves, however, Hard is made with natural flavors and vitamins and zero corn syrups, food coloring or artificial ingredients.
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Spartos
Spartos is water enriched with 10 grams of pure whey protein isolate (whey has the highest biological value of any protein source). It's considered a sports drink and sweetened with stevia and has fruit and vegetable extracts to load it with vitamins, minerals, electrolytes and antioxidants.
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Activate
Some vitamins lose their potency sitting in water so Activate stores them in a unique cap. Just twist the cap and the active ingredients pour into the water for a 0 calorie, 0 sugar, preservative-free drink that is naturally sweetened with stevia. As an added bonus, the bottles are made from post-consumer recycled plastic.
