Squash/Cordial - Any with NO chemicals?
Discussion
As part of a drive to stop myself ticking every single box in the "Shortly To Die" list, I am giving up Diet Coke (been a few days so far and the headaches have been monumental... scares me to think what it does when I do drink it!).
I've decided that initally I'll drink flavoured water and then go to the purest water available (well, tap water) after that.
I started with the flavoured waters "with natural fruit juices"... and they are FULL of the chemicals, many of which are shared with Diet Coke. Now I've been looking at squashes/cordials and they are also ALL full of chemicals too (either sweetners, colours or most commonly preservatives).
Does anyone know of a brand that is totally natural - also where they can be bought? Oh and doesn't taste shite?
TIA,
Phil.
I've decided that initally I'll drink flavoured water and then go to the purest water available (well, tap water) after that.
I started with the flavoured waters "with natural fruit juices"... and they are FULL of the chemicals, many of which are shared with Diet Coke. Now I've been looking at squashes/cordials and they are also ALL full of chemicals too (either sweetners, colours or most commonly preservatives).
Does anyone know of a brand that is totally natural - also where they can be bought? Oh and doesn't taste shite?
TIA,
Phil.
funny f
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Thanks mate. I'll take a look. 
jamieripton said:Don't why but that really doesn't appeal (probably because it's not full of chemicals!!)...
I usually just dilute down fresh orange juice to the required strength and drink that instead of 'squash'
Works well with sparkling mineral water. Although too much mineral water is apparently bad for you
May have to give it a try though.
The difficulty is that it needs to sit on my desk at work (i.e. room temperature) so I don't think it'd last very long.
mmm-five said:Not meant to be as silly a question as it probably is, but does organic mean no chemicals what-so-ever or does it mean that the fruit used to make the cordial wasn't grown with chemicals?
You need to look out for some organic concentrated fruit juice - best flavours I've found are cranberry, peach, strawberry and grape!
Hate to tell you but everything contains chemicals. What I suspect you are after is drinks with no artificial additives.
These can be difficult to identify though as legislation means that packaging must hightlight the key ingredients - most of which are probably natural to the product, but because they are listed with sometime comlicated names or E numbers people assume they are "bad chemicals".
A quick google for "additve free drinks" has brough this back:
www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/cgi-local/frameset/detail/670773.html
amongst a few others.
These can be difficult to identify though as legislation means that packaging must hightlight the key ingredients - most of which are probably natural to the product, but because they are listed with sometime comlicated names or E numbers people assume they are "bad chemicals".
A quick google for "additve free drinks" has brough this back:
www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/cgi-local/frameset/detail/670773.html
amongst a few others.
Yeah - I get an elderflower cordial from my local health food shop which I love .... for the life of me, I can't think of the name of it, but it's in a very flared dark green glass bottle. (It's pretty damned expensive, though, but as good as the stuff we used to make as kids and fantastic with lots of ice and a good snort of vodka)
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