drink up

Are you fed up with the same old smoothies and healthy drinks? There is life after a strawberry smoothie, and we've got the best of the new bunch to give you a healthy kick just when all you can think about is a Starbucks Gingerbread Latte (oops)

Get Naked

Naked Juice is a new smoothie brand that combines the best quality, bare naked fruit with the punch of powerful vitamins and nutrients to offer a fun, tasty drink with a boost. 

Inspired by a towel-to-towel juice enterprise launched on the beaches of Santa Monica in the 1980’s, Naked Juice is a leading smoothie brand in the US and has recently appeared on the shelves of UK supermarkets  Each 450ml bottle contains a pound of fruit juices and purées blended with natural vitamins or superfoods, such as echinacea and guarana, to create the must-have drink for smoothie addicts and anyone feeling guilty after a Christmas party blowout!

If you can't be bothered with steaming veg, you can get a hit of green stuff with 'Green Machine- which gives you a dose of spinach, bluegreen algae and spirulina seaweed, as well as wheatgrass and echinacea. OK, so your first thought may be "actually I'd prefer a Latte" but I'm reassured that they are delicious as well as energising - and ideal for clearing out the cobwebs on a Monday morning.  

Alternatively, if it’s the end of the day and you’ve still got a long night of partying on down ahead of you then 'Black & Blueberry Rush' icould be your thing. It's got natural caffeine from guarana and green tea in it, as well as pure fruit sugars. Caffeine and sugar in one go...and it's actually good for you? I'll never need a Caramel Macchiato again...

Four flavours are available in Waitrose - Green Machine, Black & Blueberry Rush, Orange Mango Motion and Berry Blast.

Time for tea

If a cuppa - hot or cold - is more your bag, you could try Kenzai teas. Kenzai Organic Green Tea is brewed from organic green tea leaves that are steamed before drying and by adding a little organic agave syrup (extracted from a Mexican cactus-like plant) for a touch of sweetness. Green tea contains powerful antioxidants which recent studies have shown to provide health-giving properties. For thousands of years, green tea has been the most popular drink in Asia and is identified as one of the reasons why men and women in Asia have significantly lower levels of cancer and heart disease.

The White Tea is just as good for you - the only difference is that it's brewed from the youngest and unfermented leaves of the tea plant, which makes it purer than any other tea alternative. The KENZAI™ organic white tea is brewed with Pai Mu Tan (White Peony) tea leaves, which are cultivated in the Fujian province of China. If you want to be positively angelic, it's also unsweetened and calorie free.