00:08hi guys in today's video we're going to be opening my latest order of my favorite electrolyte drink
00:15which is ritual hydrate so anyone that's familiar with my story knows that I had a seizure because
00:22of breastfeeding so I was over hydrating myself which diluted my salt levels and when they brought
00:29me into accident and emergency after my seizure at home I was basically diagnosed with hyponatremia
00:35which is low salt levels and my salt levels dropped right down to 121 millimoles per litre which is
00:42clinical hyponatremia so since then as my breastfeeding journey continues I really do
00:49need to constantly sort of keep an eye on my salt levels like I do have regular blood tests and
00:55I
00:55did start after the seizure just to get my salt levels right up and get them in a good balance
01:01I started on our three electrolyte drinks per day but I'm now on two electrolyte drinks per day so
01:07I'm still needing some supplementation of them but I also am cognizant of putting a little bit of
01:14seasoning on you know my vegetables and that sort of thing as well so I've added salt to my diet
01:19as
01:20well as having electrolyte drinks but um anyway we're going to open my like so this is my absolute
01:26favorite I really love ritual hydrate and I have tried quite a lot like I've had bottled ones that
01:32are ready-made and different brands of powdered ones but this one is my favorite so we're going to open
01:39this up and you'll see what the little tubs are like so they come in tubs and then in the
01:51tubs there's
01:53little individual I've got I wanted the berry like that's such a nice flavor I absolutely love the berry
02:05and lemon lime I really love that one too and they're the only two flavors I ordered so the berry
02:12and the lemon lime and I did I was interested like I and I've actually been using these pretty much
02:20since
02:21my seizure really when we used to had to order some of these electrolyte drinks I think we initially got
02:28online or I got online and my hubby's medically trained he also got online to have a look at some
02:33of
02:33the different brands and we did get one of these fairly straight away I think but we got a whole
02:38variety like we got a whole stack of different brands I think about five or six brands and it
02:43really truly was this one that really sort of stuck with me I I didn't mind drinking it like some
02:49of the
02:49electrolyte drinks taste artificial and just sort of yucky but I didn't mind these ones and so they
02:56sort of quickly became my favorite ones and I've pretty much been having them ever since I sort of
03:02worked out that I really do prefer these but anyway I didn't really know much about the company until
03:07actually just recently so I thought well I'll jump on and actually find out a little bit about the
03:12company so I did not realize they are actually an Australian wellness and nutrition brand and they
03:21have been the brand was founded by a food scientist so that was interesting I'm focusing on formulas that and
03:27this is what Google Gemini has told me when I got on and did my research focusing on formulas that
03:34blend science with natural ingredients I think that's what they sort of say about themselves and
03:40their products including the hydrate range which was got here are apparently also proudly manufactured here
03:47in Australia as well so that's kind of quite cool and that they do talk about their brand by saying
03:54they're
03:55the clean formula no artificial additives which are actually I'm really happy with like you know
04:01that's sort of important for my all my what health and wellness goals and one of the standard standout
04:08sorry features of ritual hydrate is that it is an all-natural sugar-free formula containing no artificial
04:15colors synthetic flavors or chemical preservatives so for me personally that that is good so and I didn't
04:23know this when I decided that this is my favorite brand I just decided it was my favorite brand on
04:28the taste because I genuinely do like the taste and so key ingredients so they don't have artificial
04:34sweeteners or heavy sugars they've got natural plant-based sweeteners like stevia and monk fruit and
04:43they source their sodium from quality Australian sea salt and it's also got the key electrolyte minerals
04:49like potassium citrate and magnesium citrate to support your overall fluid balance which is obviously why I'm
04:57taking the electrolyte drinks like I'm not just drinking these because I like the drink I am drinking them for
05:02a
05:02reason and so um the flavor varieties um because we've got the lemon lime so the lemon lime and berry
05:09I this I did not know this and I was actually really interested to find out this the berry one
05:15which we might have a taste of
05:17actually because berry is actually really my favorite gets its natural color so when I make it up in the
05:22glass you'll see that it's sort of a pinky color it gets that color from beetroot powder so that's really
05:28cool and the lemon lime uses apparently natural extracts um so keeping the whole profile sort of clean
05:35and like I said free or like the research that I looked up says free from those artificial colors and
05:42preservatives so I like when I found out a little bit more about the company I like them even more
05:48but look the taste is great so we're actually going to taste the berry so to open them they come
05:55so the
05:55little tub comes sealed with a little sticker here and at the start I was sort of like really turning
06:01them
06:01just to open them like this but I have found that the easiest way is to just carefully split the
06:08knife
06:08across the sticky well that didn't really cleanly cut but if you if you cleanly cut the sticker then
06:15you've got half the sticker on both sides and you can just get the lid off I did that a
06:19bit messy so
06:20that's now going to look messy on the side of the tub but that's okay so inside the tub we've
06:26got these
06:27little um sachets so they're individual serves per um and like I said I'm now on two a day so
06:34we're
06:35going to make up one of these and you'll see the beautiful little um the lovely pink color and
06:41I wouldn't say it's like sherbet it's not like um you know um how sherbet is like bubbly or whatever
06:48it's not like that but nor is it totally flat either so I don't really know the best way to
06:54describe
06:55it it's a little bit zingy like really it's it's nice anyway um but anyway so you just pour the
07:03little
07:03the powder into your glass and then you just add water now I my preference which is probably a little
07:14bit unusual is I actually really like my drinks um warm like I don't know how many other people
07:22like their drinks warm but I really do like my drinks warm so get some warm water flowing
07:32and then I'll put some nice warm water in this glass and then I'm just going to really enjoy it
07:37like it's it's just absolutely delicious
07:42and you can see this nice see how beautiful the color is like that's just gorgeous it's sort of
07:47like a grapefruit pinky color and I also have learned I mean I sometimes have full glass you can just
07:54have that amount whatever suits your taste but if you then just drink all this that's the other reason
08:01why sometimes warm water might be a bit of an advantage sometimes some of the salts don't fully
08:06dissolve at the bottom of the glass so if you just drink the glass you'll still have some of the
08:11little salt things so you can either try and dissolve it a bit better in warm water and just sort
08:16of swirl
08:17it or just get a little spoon and just stir it but anyway we're going to have a taste
08:28I'll see that is really nice I really really love it I love the berry the berry is my favorite
08:35but a doctor actually told me in hospital and this was a real eye-opener for me he said the
08:42dose is the
08:43poison and he was talking about me over hydrating with water because obviously you don't think that
08:48water is going to hurt you but it can if you have too much of it so now I'm just
08:54even though these
08:55have got no artificial dyes or whatever the company says I still now try and have a little bit of
09:02variety and so no matter what it is even if it's skincare or what I'm eating or drinking I try
09:08not to
09:09just stick to the one thing constantly I try to sort of mix it up a bit so that's why
09:15I get the lime as well
09:16just so I'm not having that exact same thing every single day but I do love the berry
09:27oh it's delicious so I guess long and the short of it is I can really highly recommend
09:34ritual hydrate if you are looking for a really good electrolyte drink um a powdered one then
09:40yeah I don't think you can go past this one taste is why I chose it as my favorite but
09:47now that I
09:48discovered a bit more about the company I um obviously like it even more because to think
09:53that this is naturally colored with beetroot powder makes me feel pretty good about drinking it
10:01so
10:03so
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