Moment: The Best Tasting Can Here, and the Least Willing to Say Why
Photograph: Adobe Stock, licensed 20 August 2026. A generic botanical soda, not the product reviewed below.
If someone hands you a Moment at a party you will enjoy it. It is a good non-alcoholic drink, the flavours are grown-up rather than candied, it is caffeine free, and it is about ten calories.
What it is not is a product you can evaluate as a dose of anything, and the label makes that unusually clear if you read it in order.
Price: $33.24 on Amazon, $40.00 direct, for a 12 pack. About $2.77 a can
Format: Sparkling botanical soda and botanical tea, 11.5 fl oz cans
Caffeine: None
Adaptogens named: Ashwagandha across the range, reishi on the reishi orange, L-theanine throughout
Milligrams published: None, anywhere
Sweetener: Erythritol, 6 to 8 g per can, plus stevia and monk fruit
Disclosure tier: 3, ingredient names only
The ingredient order tells the story
Here is the blackberry lavender, in the brand’s own printed order: sparkling filtered water, blackberry juice from concentrate, erythritol, organic apple cider vinegar, malic acid, natural flavors, L-theanine, ashwagandha, carrot and blueberry concentrate, stevia leaf extract, monk fruit extract.
And here is the reishi orange: filtered water, orange juice from concentrate, erythritol, citric acid, acacia gum, L-theanine, monk fruit extract, ashwagandha, orange oil, ascorbic acid, stevia leaf extract, reishi.
Ingredients are listed heaviest first. On a can named after reishi, reishi is the last thing on the list, behind the stevia extract. On both cans the adaptogens sit below the erythritol.
None of that is illegal or even unusual. It does mean the honest description of this product is a flavoured sparkling water with functional ingredients present, and the amounts are the brand’s business rather than yours.
The case for buying it anyway
It is the drink you would actually serve someone. That matters more than this site’s scoring system admits. A can you enjoy and drink instead of a beer is doing something real for you, whatever the reishi is or is not doing.
Caffeine free, and it is one of only two here. Odyssey is an energy drink, MUD\WTR and Four Sigmatic are coffee replacements, and Kin Spritz has an undisclosed amount of caffeine anhydrous in it. Moment and Recess are the ones you can drink at 9pm.
Ashwagandha’s bar is low. The lowest clinically validated stress dose is 125 mg a day, which is small enough that a can could plausibly carry a meaningful amount. We just have no way to know whether this one does.
The case against
6 to 8 g of erythritol per can. That is how a 10 calorie drink stays sweet. Fine for most people, rough on some stomachs at twelve cans a week.
$2.77 for an unquantified dose. You are paying a functional price for a beverage experience. If you are buying the experience, that is a fair trade. If you thought you were buying the ashwagandha, it is not.
Its nearest competitor discloses more for the same money. Recess Mood is two cents cheaper a can, also caffeine free, and publishes 53 mg of magnesium.
Who should buy it
- Anyone building a good non-alcoholic fridge
- People who want something functional-adjacent in the evening with no caffeine
- Buyers who care about flavour first and are honest with themselves about that
Who should buy something else
- If you want a published dose in a can, Odyssey is the only one that gives you a full set
- If erythritol does not agree with you, this whole range is built on it
Verdict: Buy Moment because it is a very good drink. Do not buy it because of the ashwagandha, because the can will not tell you how much of it you are getting, and on the reishi orange the reishi weighs less than the stevia.