Fruit slushes
Classic cherry slush
The seaside favourite made at home: cherry squash, water and enough sugar to slush properly.
Photo: ShakataGaNai, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cola & fizzy
Cola slush
The simplest slush there is: pour in a full-sugar cola and press start. Diet cola won’t work — here’s why.
- Batch
- about 1.8 litres
- Serves
- 7 × 257 ml
- Setting
- Ninja SLUSHi: Slush · Tower Slushie Fusion: Slush
Fizzy drinks are exactly what the Slush settings are designed for — Ninja gives soda and lemonade as examples. The catch is sugar: diet, zero and “no sugar” colas have essentially none, and Ninja says sugar-free or low-sugar liquids won’t slush.
Ingredients
- 1.8 litres full-sugar cola, chilled
Allergens to watch: Usually none of the 14 regulated allergens — check the label. Always check the labels of the brands you use.
Method
- Chill the cola in the fridge.
- Open the bottles and pour slowly down the side of the vessel so it doesn’t foam over the top.
- Keep below the maximum fill line.
- Run the Slush setting.
- Serve as soon as it is thick.
Sugar check
Look at the nutrition panel: you want at least 4 g of sugars per 100 ml (Ninja’s minimum) or 5 g for Tower. Full-sugar colas usually clear that; diet and zero versions show 0 g and will freeze icy or set off the machine’s low-sugar alert.
Tips
- Cola contains caffeine, so think twice before serving it to young children.
- Want to use a diet cola? Ninja’s fix for low-sugar drinks is to add 15–30 ml of syrup, juice or sugar per serving before slushing.
Sources for the rules we followed
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Kids’ party
Blue raspberry party slush (glycerol-free)
The bright blue party classic, made with a sugar-based, glycerol-free syrup — the right choice when young children are drinking it.
Photo: Entheta, CC BY-SA 3.0
Citrus & lemonade
Fresh lemonade slush
Sharp, proper lemonade slush from lemons, sugar and water — no fizz needed.
Photo: André Karwath aka Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5