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“It was during the COVID lockdown. A simple phone conversation with a good friend, talking about the beverages we drank as kids growing up in Vietnam.”
I started working on recipes for sweet drinks, researching ingredients with health benefits. After months at it, I still hadn’t created anything that had a wow effect on the people I solicited to test the beverages – my partner, his mother and our niece. My guinea pigs – I mean focus group of three – spanned the ages of 24 to 85, and I believe represented the wide range of tastes and physical bodies my beverage was designed for.
As a non-soda juice drinker, I didn’t have the heart to work on a sugar beverage, knowing that my friends and family wouldn’t benefit from drinking it.
Thanks to the magic of the algorithm on the computer, my research led me to water kefir. Immediately, it grabbed my attention and I followed my gut. I’ve always believed in the value of instinct. As always, my curiosity and passion for food took me on a search for this ancient grain and I started brewing.
to grow…
And the seed of an idea began
was born
Months later, I believe the best tasting fermented food
I moved beyond the original focus group of three to ask a friend to share the latest version of my drink with her staff, who were mainly in their early to mid-20s. The new beverage received a strong thumbs-up from this group.
It has been over two years since I started working on Hlth-ee Soda. Over time, I narrowed it down to four flavours and focused on perfecting each one. After distributing hundreds of samples and receiving unbelievably positive feedback about how my beverage helps with gut health, I became more driven than ever to make this functional health beverage.
The consistent feedback from friends and family who have been consuming it for many months is that the drink helps everyone with chronic stomach issues. For me, I no longer take probiotics to help with staying regular. People tell me that they feel great drinking it daily, many for over a year now.
I’m now focusing on scaling to keep up with demand, yet maintaining a small batch, traditional brewing method to provide the quality of taste and probiotics in the drinks.
Thank you for being on this health journey with Hlth-ee Soda!
household
My hope is that it will
become a staple in every
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