Fizz with Benefits: Prebiotic Soda Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe prebiotic sodas, the fizzy drinks with added plant fibre that now sit beside the cola on shop shelves. People tried them to leave behind thirty years of diet cola, two litres of lemonade a day, energy drinks or beers after work, and others hoped for help with constipation, bloating or a three o'clock sugar craving. A Mumbai taxi driver checking his blood sugar after each can, a dairy farmer whose stomach was unsettled after antibiotics, a hairdresser after gallbladder surgery, a food delivery rider in the Dubai heat, a ship's engineer months at sea and a pastor in sweet tea country are among them, from Lagos to Decorah. One retired welder made his own with fibre powder for a fraction of the price, and a new mother asked her midwife before opening a can. The harder results are stated plainly: a personal trainer who drank too many and spent days near the bathroom, a woman with IBS who found half a can was her limit, a man in remission from Crohn's who says it was not right for him, a firefighter whose heartburn got worse, and a son whose tummy aches had another cause. A marketing writer concludes the label promised more than the can delivered.

Who it's for

For anyone at the shop fridge weighing a pastel can against their usual soda, especially people with a gut condition, diabetes or a daily medicine routine who want to know what others asked first.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 233 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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