An innocent guide to looking after smoothies

Warm smoothies just don't cut the mustard, so as a reminder to those of you who'll be buying our little drinks, please make sure they're kept chilled. The reason this is important is that our drinks are made from 100% pure fruit and nothing else. We don't use preservatives, stabilisers or additives. So, as you'd expect from a completely natural product, they must be kept chilled at all times to keep them fresh.

If you leave them out of the fridge, they will eventually start to ferment. This is a completely safe, natural process but it means the smoothie goes fizzy. It normally causes tiny bubbles in the drink. Click here to find out more about fermentation.

Sometimes, in cases of rapid fermentation, there will be a build up of gas. Our caps are designed to vent this excess gas, but in some rare occasions, the bottle becomes hard or bloated. In that case, we wouldn't advise opening the bottle in your car, at your desk or in your best cashmere sweater, as it may misbehave and squirt smoothie all over you. Instead, please open over a sink with the cap pointing away from you.

In very rare cases, the cap has been known to pop off all on its own and this can cause a bit of a mess in your fridge. Please let us know immediately if this happens.

So, please do keep our little drinks nice and cold. The temperature they are most happy with is between 0 and 5 degrees (before and after opening). Which, handily, is the temperature of the average household fridge.

If you suspect a drink to be fermented or isnt quite as you expected it to be then pour away the contents, keep the packaging and contact us at hello@innocentdrinks.co.uk or call the banana phone on 020 8600 3993 with details about the bottle and its enjoy by date.