GROOVY Juice, Lifeburst and Fizz-whizz may not be household names at the moment, but in the future could become as familiar as Ribena and Coca-Cola.

That is if year five pupils at Threshfield Primary School put their new-found food and drink skills to use and set up in business.

The group of 15 pupils, headed by teacher Brettle Roberts, embarked on a science project looking at drinks and decided to invent some of their own. Covering science, IT, mathematics and English curriculum criteria, they came up with four products and, wrote to various companies to see what they thought.

Of all the creations, Lifeburst received an encouraging response from Farmfoods, in Cumbernauld. The firm made up the ingredients in its test kitchens and wrote a favourable letter back to the pupils.

John Ahrens, technical manager with Farmfoods wrote: "We made up the drink as per the recipe and all agreed that the version without the chocolate tasted better than the one with, and that in general the flavour profile and mouth feel was very good."

He went on to say the the food colouring was unnecessary and they had made a slightly different version using more Ribena which produced a warmer colour.

The recipe for Lifeburst which had been submitted to Farmfoods included sugar-free lemonade, Ribena, still mixed-berry juice, cranberry and raspberry juice, chocolate flavouring and yellow food colouring.

Picture by Stephen Garnett shows, from left to right, Rosanna Booth, Rebecca Toseland, Tom Smallwood, Mrs Roberts, Matthew Anderson, Gemma Hall and Jimmy Bullough.