Wandering the supermarket aisles of 2025, you’ve likely stumbled across colourful cans brandishing bold and alluring promises of ‘calm’ and ‘focus’.
Known as functional beverages, they often include a host of strange-sounding ingredients: Ashwagandha (a medicinal herb), Lion’s Mane (a type of mushroom), and various other plant compounds, vitamins and minerals that claim to naturally enhance mental wellbeing.
