New Green Drink!

I've already written about how much I love the Kale Kolada (which is green), but here's a new green drink that I discovered recently: GTs Enlightened Synergy Organic and Raw Kombucha Green Chia.

It was the weirdest looking drink in the store, and I have to say, that is partially what attracted me to it.  Other things:

• I have been loading up on probiotics recently (after a stint with antibotics), and this has them!
• I've been curious about chia seeds ever since I read about runners eating them in the book Born to Run
• Has Omega-3s, antioxidants, chlorophyll, and It's raw, vegan, organic, blah blah blah.  Basically it has every health-food buzz word out there on the label

I wish I had a better vocabulary to describe the taste.  It tastes good to me!  It is slightly sweet, slightly fizzy and slightly vinegary. My husband tried but isn't into it, so we affectionately call it "pond scum with tadpole eggs."   I guess more notable than the flavor is the texture - the chia seeds remind me of the seeds inside smoothies with raspberry or strawberries in it, except if you took those seeds and wrapped them in bubble tea pearls.  It feels really cool in your mouth, kind of jelly, but also like seeds, you can bite them a little bit or just swallow them all.  This would be a good drink to do that John Kabat-Zinn raisin exercise and practice drinking it mindfully!

The drink is actually quite filling (it has a lot of fiber from the chia seeds, so it will also help you with pooping if that's what you're looking for).  The label says that there is "a trace amount of alcohol" in there, which as someone who is super sensitive to alcohol, I can feel (it reminds me of the holiday party where I got buzzed on the punch that everyone else was surprised to learn had prosecco in it).

Anyway, it's worth a try! It's a fun drink because it looks so novel, and I honestly do think there are positive health effects.