11 best gut-health drinks, from kefir to kombucha
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Launched in 2012 and based in Yorkshire, Equinox is one of the largest kombucha brewers in the UK and the winner of two Great Taste awards. The brand’s organic kombuchas are available in five flavours but our favourite is the raspberry and elderflower. You can also choose from pink grapefruit and guava, Sicilian lemon, ginger and orange and yuzu.
Despite a fairly strong taste with distinctly more vinegar than some other brands, this was a favourite with our child testers, who were happy to quaff it in place of less-healthy options. The glass bottles are easy to recycle – just be sure to give the bottle a gentle shake before enjoying, as the natural sediment from the Scoby (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) will have sunk to the bottom of the bottle.
The individual bottles were also the most competitively priced on test and the tasty flavours and organic vegan-friendly ingredients earned Equinox kombucha the title of best overall drink. If you’re dipping your toe into the world of fermented drinks for the first time, you can’t go wrong with One Living. The brand’s cans of sparkling kombucha are affordable and taste great.
The raspberry kombucha with pomegranate was our favourite but the brand offers a range of flavours – from passionfruit to ginger – as well as blends with added adaptogens for focus, immunity and calm. Created by Jonny Wilkinson, the gut-friendly brand adds B vitamins to its unpasteurised sparkling drinks, for an extra health hit, and doesn’t add any sugar to its recipes, so you can be sure the friendly bacteria in each can isn’t compromised.
