{"id":5816,"date":"2014-03-12T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/?p=5816"},"modified":"2014-03-12T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T23:30:00","slug":"soft-drinks-while-pregnant-you-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/soft-drinks-while-pregnant-you-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft drinks while pregnant? You bet! {review}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being pregnant means you should watch what you drink. I had gestational diabetes last pregnancy and really wanted to do whatever I could this time around to reduce my chances of getting GD again this pregnancy.<br \/>\nOne of the things I did when I first found out I was pregnant was to stop drinking Coke, well to tell the truth I had to stop because it was making me sick &#8211; hello morning sickness!!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the morning sickness I was a bit limited to what I could drink without feeling ill &#8211; water, sometimes juice, the occasional water cordial. No milk and nothing of the fizzy variety.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the 2nd trimester and the end of morning sickness (yay!!) and I slowly introduced milk back into the diet and was ok. There was a definite craving for something fizzy but the amount of sugar in soft drinks is a bit frightening &#8211; 28g per 250ml in lemonade and 27g per 250ml of cola. Before you ask no I don&#8217;t do diet drinks or no sugar drinks, for one thing I&#8217;m not convinced that fake sugars are good for us and secondly I&#8217;m not a huge fan of the taste.<\/p>\n<p>When I was offered the chance to try a low sugar, organic alternative I must say I was extremely curious. BIONADE (pronounced <i>Bee-oh-nah-deh)<\/i>\u00a0 is a range of organic fermented and carbonated beverages from Germany.<\/p>\n<p>On first glance, you could be fooled into thinking it&#8217;s a trendy new post-mix alcoholic drink but no it&#8217;s a tasty low sugar drink that looks as good as it tastes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BIONADE-Flaschen-Wasser.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"BIONADE-Flaschen-Wasser\" alt=\"BIONADE-Flaschen-Wasser\" src=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BIONADE-Flaschen-Wasser_thumb.jpg\" width=\"387\" height=\"226\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So what is BIONADE and what makes it different from your average soft drink?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it&#8217;s 100% certified organic<\/li>\n<li>it&#8217;s low in sugar (15.5g per 330ml serve)<\/li>\n<li>Brewed like beer, but non-alcoholic<\/li>\n<li>No colourants! No preservatives! No artificial flavours!<\/li>\n<li>Gluten free. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are 4 flavours &#8211; ginger &amp; orange, lychee, elderberry and herbs.<\/p>\n<p>First up in my trial was the ginger &amp; orange. Ginger is meant to be pretty good when you feel ill, be it from morning sickness, travel sickness or maybe just feeling a little seedy after a night out. I thought it might taste a little similar to IronBru (it&#8217;s a Scottish citrus, slightly gingery, soft drink, often described as &#8220;Scotland&#8217;s other national drink&#8221; (after Scotch whisky) and is the number 1 selling soft drink there closely followed by Coke) but it was more gingery with an nice orange aftertaste. Quite nice. I imagine it would make a good mixer.<\/p>\n<p>I tried the Herb flavour and really wasn&#8217;t sure. Don&#8217;t think I would drink this one again.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not a fan of lychees at all so was pretty hesitant about trying this flavour. Pleasantly surprised! It was sweet and a little tangy. Again it would probably make a good mixer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"002\" alt=\"002\" src=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/002_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/0021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"002\" alt=\"002\" src=\"http:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/002_thumb1.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve left my favourite til last &#8211; Elderberry. It is super yum, sweet, fizzy and very moreish.<\/p>\n<p>Hubby wasn&#8217;t taken with any of them but he&#8217;s pretty fussy. Miss K loved all of them and they are something I&#8217;d be happy to give BIONADE to her as a treat over lemonade or cola.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage BIONADE is available online from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinks-logistics.com.au\/\">http:\/\/www.drinks-logistics.com.au\/<\/a> and selected retailers<\/p>\n<p>And cause I love my readers I have a mixed case of 24 bottles of BIONADE to giveaway to one lucky Nightwolf&#8217;s Den reader. Leave us a comment with what you loved to drink when you were pregnant OR what you&#8217;d miss drinking if you were pregnant. Entry is open to Australian residents only. Winner will have 1 week to respond once the giveaway is drawn. Giveaway closes 26th March 2014<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"rafl\" id=\"rc-46fa2314\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/46fa2314\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">a Rafflecopter giveaway<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/d12vno17mo87cx.cloudfront.net\/embed\/rafl\/cptr.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being pregnant means you should watch what you drink. I had gestational diabetes last pregnancy and really wanted to do whatever I could this time around to reduce my chances of getting GD again this pregnancy. One of the things I did when I first found out I was pregnant was to stop drinking Coke, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/soft-drinks-while-pregnant-you-bet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Soft drinks while pregnant? 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