A Bottle of Ribena (p. 48 Gemma Hardy)

 Ribena was a British-origin brand of blackcurrant-based fruit drink concentrate used to produce carbonated and uncarbonated soft drinks.. It was produced by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) until 2013, when the brand was sold to Suntory.

The brand had a strong reputation as a healthy product for children, stemming from its distribution to children as a vitamin C supplement during World War II by the British government. Beecham (a company that has been part of GSK since 2000) bought the brand in 1955 and developed many soft drink versions. A series of scandals in the 2000s, concerning vitamin C levels, sugar levels, and the amounts of actual fruit in some of the brands, damaged its reputation as a healthy product. By 2013, the brand was widely regarded as being similar to other soft drinks.