If you’re going to drink soda, drink this one. . .

While I was in the pizza shop eating a WHOLE WHEAT slice of pizza, I had a craving for a carbonated drink. I was getting bored with the flavored seltzer water, so I went for the next best drink-ginger ale. Or, so I thought.

The ginger root has numerous benefits. I’m sure there’s been a time when you had a stomach ache and someone suggested drinking ginger ale. There’s a reason for that, it works. It helps to ease digestive discomfort, effective for nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, it provides natural anti-inflammatory effects, and possibly protects against colorectal cancer and ovarian cancer.

Now, one would assume if you drink GINGER ale that one of the first ingredients listed on the back of the can . . .will be GINGER. That’s not the case. The Canada Dry ginger ale contained the following:
Carbonated Water, Citric Acid, Natural Flavors, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Benzoate, Malic Acid, Aspartame, Caramel Color (wth?)

If you can’t readily identify the majority of the ingredients of whatever you’re consuming- 9 times out 10 it’s probably full of UNnatrual products. Another trick is if you have to sound out each syllable of the ingredient as if you’re in first grade again. i.e As-par-ta-me

Canada Dry’s counterpart, Schweppes, was not much better containing Hexametaphosphate, Red 40, and Blue 1.

Check out this simple, easy and non-sugar laden homemade Ginger Ale.
Real Ginger Ale Recipe
Ingredients:
1-inch piece of ginger root, peeled
1 medium tangerine, quartered
1 pint of red grapes, with seeds
2 cups of watermelon, with rind, cubed
4 ounces of sparkling mineral water
Directions:
Push ginger root, tangerine, grapes, and watermelon through a juicer.
Add mineral water to juice and stir well.
If you use a strong blender in place of the juicer, use some of the sparkling mineral water to get the ingredients going and add the remaining water once the ingredients are blended together. Depending on the strength of your blender, you may need to use a strainer if you prefer a clear ginger ale.