New Healthier Beverages to Enjoy in 2022

January is a great time to reset your body and make healthy choices. With wellness a priority right now, don’t drink beverages that provide empty calories, processed sugar and no nutritional value.

There are two newer functional beverages created with natural “superfood” ingredients – cactus water and honey offering health benefits and a delicious taste. Indulging is easy when you substitute the following non alcohol beverages to maintain your Dry January goals. Grab one of these to hydrate after a workout, or while sitting at your desk while working at home.

Caliwater was imagined when actress Vanessa Hudgens and actor Oliver Trevena were drinking a prickly pear margarita together. Enjoying the flavor, they learned that a prickly pear cactus is a “superfruit” that not only provides hydration, but contains 5 naturally occurring electrolytes packed with skin fortifying antioxidants, and anti-inflammatory properties. It’s shown to lower cholesterol, regulate blood sugar levels, offer digestive benefits and provides natural anti-viral properties.

Inspired by California’s desert regions and landscape, the founders looked to source prickly pear cactus fruit into a new canned organic beverage product.  There is 200mg of organic nopal cactus extract in each can. While creating the beverage they developed two flavors: Organic Wild Prickly Pear and Organic Wild Prickly Pear with Ginger & Lime.

Caliwater launched on E-Comm in Spring 2021, followed by a roll out to retailers and Amazon Prime. It is also available at retailers Erewhon supermarkets in California and Village Super Market stores on the East Coast, plus twenty-nine ShopRite supermarkets, five Fairway Markets and three Gourmet Garage specialty markets located across New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland, as well as other retailers.

The founders also are giving back to those in need. For every can sold, 5 cents will be donated (with a pledge of $1 million dollars) to nonprofit No Kid Hungry. Go to www.drinkcaliwater.com and use promo code “Welcome10” for 10% off your first order.

WILD TONIC® Jun Kombucha is rich in prebiotics, probiotics and antioxidants without a strong vinegar flavor. Made in Arizona, this bubbly fermented beverage is a cousin of traditional Kombucha, offering a refreshing honey-based taste instead of cane sugar.

Artist and painter Holly Lyman’s painted with beeswax, which transformed into working with honey, two labors of love created by bees. She soon became fascinated with a rare ferment known as Jun, and started brewing the “champagne of Kombucha”. Not only is WILD TONIC® Jun Kombucha made with organic honey, it’s also made with tea harvested from USDA-certified organic farms using friendly farming methods in an impoverished area of Bangladesh. Fresh fruit, herbs, spices and botanicals are used to achieve delicate floral notes.

Each can or bottle is filled with health and wellness benefits, for an ideal, “New Year, New You” beverage. Save the beautiful blue bottle to use as a flower vase or candle holder.

Flavors include Raspberry Goji Rose, Blueberry Basil, Blackberry Mint, Mango Ginger, Lavender Love, Tropical Turmeric, and two seasonal flavors Chai Pear and Rosemary Lemon. Lyman also makes Wild Tonic Hard Jun Kombucha 5.6% ABV. Order traditional and hard Jun Kombucha online. Hard Kombucha can only be shipped to Arizona addresses.