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Is It Still Water?
Topic Started: Jun 15 2017, 02:34 PM (91 Views)
Catseye3
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I've changed my beverage habits. To my own surprise, I am content with plain old tap water. But out of curiosity I wanted to try some of the flavored water that the stores sell.

I brought home a sixpack of Nestle Splash Natural Lemon Flavored Water. Well, yeah, if 'natural' is like getting a mallet in the teeth, then I guess this is natural. The ingredients list: PURIFIED WATER, NATURAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM POLYPHOSPHATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVE FRESHNESS), POTASSIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVE FRESHNESS), SUCRALOSE ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA, MAGNESIUM SULFATE.

It was awful tasting.

Then below the ingredients panel, this notice: WARNING: Cap is a small part and poses a CHOKING HAZARD. The consumer is advised to remove cap before drinking contents.

No, I made that last part up.

So I did the only thing I could think of. I poured the contents down the drain and filled the bottle with tap water.


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Jolly
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Catseye3
Jun 15 2017, 02:34 PM
I've changed my beverage habits. To my own surprise, I am content with plain old tap water. But out of curiosity I wanted to try some of the flavored water that the stores sell.

I brought home a sixpack of Nestle Splash Natural Lemon Flavored Water. Well, yeah, if 'natural' is like getting a mallet in the teeth, then I guess this is natural. The ingredients list: PURIFIED WATER, NATURAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM POLYPHOSPHATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVE FRESHNESS), POTASSIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVE FRESHNESS), SUCRALOSE ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA, MAGNESIUM SULFATE.

It was awful tasting.

Then below the ingredients panel, this notice: WARNING: Cap is a small part and poses a CHOKING HAZARD. The consumer is advised to remove cap before drinking contents.

No, I made that last part up.

So I did the only thing I could think of. I poured the contents down the drain and filled the bottle with tap water.


Dasanti is the name brand water marketed by Coca-cola. I don't know what minerals they add for flavor, but I know where their base water comes from...The city tap water. They have a large R/O system with multiple final scrub filters in their bottling plants and the same base water they use for Coke is used for Dasanti.
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George K
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I use a Sodastream, with no added flavors.

It's great. The water is very refreshing, and free.

I can go to Target and the the CO2 canister refilled for about $15, and it lasts me over a month.
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Axtremus
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Slice up one or more citrus fruit. Soak the pieces in drinking water. Drink it.
Change up the fruit for variety. Add mint leaves if you want to get fancy.
Strawberry and cucumber slices also work.
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Catseye3
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Axtremus
Jun 15 2017, 02:47 PM
Slice up one or more citrus fruit. Soak the pieces in drinking water. Drink it.
Change up the fruit for variety. Add mint leaves if you want to get fancy.
Strawberry and cucumber slices also work.
Thanks, Ax. I'd do that, but I'm satisfied with plain water -- as I say, much to my own surprise, having in December broken a lifelong flavored soda habit.
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That in itself is a big, if achievement. Being a label reader is very illuminating.
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Riley
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HOLY CARP!!!
Jolly
Jun 15 2017, 02:40 PM
Dasanti is the name brand water marketed by Coca-cola. I don't know what minerals they add for flavor, but I know where their base water comes from...The city tap water.
Is that different from any other bottled water? Doesn't it all come from city water? Where else would they get it?
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George K
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A guide to GKSR: Click

"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
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