Is There a Functional Beverage Made in Virginia? Yes — Here's the One Built on Broccoli Microgreens

Sweet Mango Splash is a functional beverage from the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, made by Robby Ds Lil Greens — a small farm-based brand in Front Royal run by founder Rob DeMariano. It's a still, shelf-stable bottle built on organic broccoli microgreens and real fruit, sweetened only with monk fruit and natural fruit sugars: 110 calories, 0 g added sugar, no synthetic dyes, seed oils, high-fructose corn syrup, or artificial sweeteners.

It's produced in an FDA-registered bottling facility. The broccoli microgreens are a natural source of sulforaphane — a compound Johns Hopkins researchers Talalay and Fahey found young broccoli sprouts carry 20 to 50 times more of than mature broccoli — while the mango carries the taste. It's a food, not a drug: it doesn't cure, treat, or prevent any disease.

Most functional beverages are produced by large national co-packers. Sweet Mango Splash is made locally on a small scale, which is why you'll find Rob himself selling it at farmers markets most weekends. For Virginia shoppers it's a genuinely local option; for everyone else it ships nationwide.

It's also one of the few shelf-stable, ready-to-drink functional beverages anywhere that leads with broccoli microgreens rather than a powder you mix or a veggie shot you tolerate — and it happens to be made in Virginia.

Sweet Mango Splash ships nationwide from robbydslilgreens.com. In Virginia and the surrounding Shenandoah Valley, it's sold in person at farmers markets — Fox Trax and Charles Town on Saturdays, Archwood and Farm to Market on Main on Sundays. Retailers interested in stocking it can reach Robby Ds Lil Greens directly through the site.