14 Day Gut Ritual

A box of fourteen single-serve sachets. Each 9g sachet holds 3.5g of psyllium husk powder, already measured, with 200mg of magnesium, 120.75mg of calcium, 800mg of flaxseed, 800mg of L-glutamine, and prune, ginger, aloe vera inner-leaf gel, a fermented blend of thirty-six fruits and vegetables, alpha-galactosidase and lactase, in a plum-flavoured powder that tastes like a strawberry banana smoothie. Psyllium husk contributes to intestinal transit, intestinal function and helps to maintain a healthy bowel. Over a million doses sold.

The 3.5g is measured for you and sealed in a sachet, it's the same every time, it tastes of something, and it comes in the company of forty-five other named ingredients including magnesium and calcium. A bag gives you psyllium on its own. The sachet gives you psyllium done properly.

About seven, if the capsules hold 500mg each, which most do. One Gut Ritual sachet holds 3.5g of psyllium husk, already measured, stirred into 150ml of cold water.

Psyllium husk powder, magnesium malate, flaxseed powder, L-glutamine, plum flavouring, citric acid, maltodextrin, ginger root powder, prune powder, a fermented blend of thirty-six named fruits and vegetables, alpha-galactosidase, xanthan gum, calcium citrate, aloe vera powder, lactase and sucralose. Every one is on the pack and in the Ingredients tab.

The flavouring is natural plum. The fermented blend includes banana and strawberry among its thirty-six, and what the glass adds up to is a strawberry banana smoothie. The label says plum because that's the flavouring. Your tongue says otherwise. Both are right, and we've stopped arguing with it.

A strawberry and banana smoothie, soft, with small flecks from the fruit and seed. Sweetened with sucralose. "Not overly sweet," said one verified customer; "tastes gorgeous," said another. Taste is personal, which is what the refund is for.

Smoothie-like once it's had its two to three minutes, with small flecks from the fruit and seed ingredients. Drink it then; it keeps thickening if you leave it.

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Water first: pour 150ml of cold water into a glass. Tear the sachet, tip it in, stir straight away. Give it two to three minutes to thicken into a smoothie, then drink it; don't leave it past three. The pack has the full directions.

Water first, always. Powder first is how you get a lump with a glass round it.

You waited too long, or the powder went in first. Sachet into water, stir at once, drink within three minutes of mixing.

Stir the moment the powder meets the water and keep going for ten seconds before you let it stand.

3.5g, already measured, in each 9g sachet.

One sachet a day, as the pack directs, and never two.

No. One is the daily amount. The pack notes that excessive consumption may produce laxative effects.

Carry on with one the next day. Don't double up.

150ml of cold water to make it, and keep your usual fluid intake up around it; psyllium is a fibre that soaks up water, which is the whole trick.

Cold water, please. Heat and other liquids change how it thickens and how it tastes, and the formulation was built for the glass as directed.

The pack doesn't say, so it's yours to choose. Same time each day is what makes it a ritual.

Speak to your GP or pharmacist before you start, and ask them about timing; psyllium taken close to some medicines can affect how they're absorbed.

Consult your GP first, as the pack directs.

Anyone pregnant, breastfeeding, taking medication or under medical supervision. Anyone with difficulty swallowing shouldn't take it.

It's formulated for adults. Keep it out of sight and reach of children.

No.

No declared allergens. The full list is on the pack.

The outer coating of the seeds of Plantago ispaghula, a plant grown mostly in western India. It's a soluble fibre that thickens in water. Psyllium (Plantago ispaghula) husk contributes to intestinal transit, intestinal function and helps to maintain a healthy bowel.

Seeds. The plant is harvested, the seeds are threshed, and the husk is separated and either left whole or milled. Gut Ritual uses the milled powder, 3.5g a sachet.

Same husk, finer grind. Powder disperses faster and thickens more evenly, which is why it's in the sachet.

Yes. Ispaghula is the older name, from the plant's species name. Same husk, two names.

Isabgol, or sat isabgol for the husk. In Urdu you'll see ispaghol. Grandmothers across South Asia have kept a tin of it for generations; Gut Ritual gives you 3.5g of it, measured.

SIL-ee-um. The p is silent, like the one in your cupboard.

It's a soluble fibre that soaks up water many times over and turns to a gel. That's why you stir straight away, wait two to three minutes, and drink it before it goes any further.

Because the outside of each particle gels before the inside gets wet, so the powder clumps into gel-coated lumps that won't disperse. It's why Gut Ritual goes into cold water second, gets stirred straight away, and is drunk within three minutes.

Both are plant fibres that thicken in liquid. Chia needs a soak; psyllium is ready in two to three minutes. Gut Ritual gives you a measured 3.5g of psyllium, no overnight bowl.

Psyllium is a seed husk, not a grain, and contains no gluten of its own. For Gut Ritual's allergen statement, see the pack: no declared allergens.

Gut Ritual is sold as a food supplement, not as a licensed medicine. Psyllium husk contributes to intestinal transit, intestinal function and helps to maintain a healthy bowel.

Hot drinks, because of how it thickens. And if you take medication, ask your GP or pharmacist about spacing the two, because psyllium taken close to some medicines can affect how they're absorbed.

Taken without enough water it can be uncomfortable, and some people take a few days to get used to it. Make it as directed, keep your fluids up, never exceed one sachet in a day, and talk to your GP if you have any concerns.

Flaxseed, also called linseed, is the seed of the flax plant. Gut Ritual has 800mg of it per sachet, the second seed in the formulation.

An amino acid, one of the building blocks of protein, found in foods like beans, meat and dairy. 800mg per sachet.

For the drink. Prune, 300mg, sits behind the fruit flavour; ginger, 300mg, gives the warmth at the finish. Both named and weighed on the pack.

Thirty-six fruits and vegetables, fermented and dried, 250mg per sachet, every one named on the pack, from apple and carrot through to strawberry and tomato.

Decolourised inner-leaf gel, 150mg per sachet.

Magnesium contributes to electrolyte balance and to normal muscle function. 200mg per sachet, 53% of the reference intake, as magnesium malate.

Calcium contributes to the normal function of digestive enzymes. 120.75mg per sachet, 15% of the reference intake, as calcium citrate.

Two enzymes in the formulation, stated in the units the pack uses: alpha-galactosidase at 240 GALU per sachet, lactase at 4,500 ALU per gram.

They're what make a powder a drink. Sucralose sweetens without sugar, xanthan gives the smoothie its body, maltodextrin carries the flavour. All named on the pack.