My Beloved picked up a box of multi-flavored drink mixes called “Twyst”, and I am trying to figure out how they actually work and if they are really any good. The powdery substance comes in a long tube with a short, thin and almost useless little mixer on one end and a pull off little tab on the other. The instructions read as follow: PAIR Choose your Twyst Base MIX Pour Slowly. Wait 5 Seconds Twyst Gently Twyst &Enjoy
How much fluid am I supposed to be using, is the fluid supposed to be water, and by “Twyst:” do they mean I am supposed to be using that pathetic little round 3 inch needle-like stirrer to mix this stuff?
Help!
Sounds complicated and waaaay too much trouble for what sounds like a woo drink. YMMV.
…A Twyst drink is a customizable, functional beverage made with a flavor-infused wellness powder inside a special biodegradable straw that you mix into water, sparkling water, or a spirit base for low-calorie, vitamin-packed drinks with electrolytes, adaptogens, and B vitamins, all without added sugar. You simply pour the powder from the straw into your liquid, wait a few seconds for it to dissolve, and then drink it through the same straw, creating cocktails, mocktails, or wellness sips.
How It Works
Choose Your Base: Start with sparkling water, still water, or one of Twyst’s alcoholic base cans (like vodka or tequila seltzer).
Insert the Straw: Place the Twyst mixer straw into your drink.
Activate: Pour the powder out of the straw and wait about 5 seconds for it to mix.
Sip & Enjoy: Stir gently and drink from the same straw.
Key Features
Low Calorie & Sugar-Free: Typically 5 calories or less per straw, sweetened with monk fruit and stevia.
Functional Ingredients: Contains electrolytes, B vitamins, Vitamin C & D, biotin, and adaptogens.
Versatile: Works with water, seltzers, or alcoholic bases for cocktails and mocktails.
Eco-Friendly: Uses biodegradable straws and offers recyclable base cans.
They sell special drinks, alcoholic and otherwise to mix it in. O.K.
You can’t pour the drink mix into the water after the straw has been put into the drink, and am I suppose to remove both end pieces before doing so? BTW, that stuff didn’t dissolve after sitting for five minutes, and no amount of stirring seemed to get rid of all the powder.
If I offer someone a cocktail, then proceed to pop open a “Twyst Base” and add “Twyst Powder” then stir it with a “Twyst Tube” and stick the “Twyst Tube” in the drink and say it is a straw, I think people will leave the party.
I have had these powder straws. There’s a particular glucose emergency brand. It’s nasty. And no more than you use them, they get old and will not mix, ever.
I don’t imbibe in alcohol. Can’t test that. Unless you want me to do it for science. There’s alcohol in the house and I still have those drinky mix straws, somewhere in my supply drawer.
The idea of drinking biodegradable plastic in my drink kinda bothers me.
It just sat there in the alcohol (Tully), but adding carbonated water to the mix caused it to dissolve for the most part. The taste was nothing to write home about, but at least it was…healthy?
