Dasani sucks!

[theMan]

its good to drink mineral filled well water. you get lots of iron in your diet and other important minerals like Na/K/Ca. also, you don't have to pay for the water in bottles that are created using fossil fuels, and pollute the environment because they don't decay for 10,000 years.

 

[Parasitic]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
What's RO?

Leros - not sure.

Amaroque - distilled and drinking water are different things. Distilled is kind of water you find in chem labs. It tastes very bad. Drinking is distilled with stuff added to it so it tastes better.

Actually, they don't usually distill drinking water. They usually filter tap water, or maybe put it through a reverse osmosis unit and perform a couple of other treatments, then bottle it and sell it at a huge markup. There are very, VERY few times when it's worth buying bottled water.

Distillation is more energetically expensive than just filtration.

 

[moshquerade]

Get one of these, fill with tap water, and save some $$ on buying commercially bottled water which is likely tap water also.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

The UK version of Dasani was horrible :thumbsdown:

 

[Mark R]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
Not necessarily. Depends on your diet. But drinking pure water when your body is very dehydrated usually isnt as good as also drinking water that contains minerals. Its important to keep the electrolytic concentration in your body correct as well as hydrating the body. An upset of electrolyte concentration can be very hazardous to your health (what would happen if you drank pure water).

The thing is the amount of salt and minerals in tap water is so small as to be essentially negligible. From the body's perspective it is 'pure', save for some very scant evidence to the contrary (see my post above).

If you want to replace electrolytes, then you need an isotonic solution. Easiest way to make this is 1 gram of salt in 1 litre of water. This tastes very salty and is not at all pleasant to drink. So most isotonic sports drinks contain loads of sugar/glucose and/or artificial sweeteners to make them drinkable. As an added benefit, the physiological effect of the sugar actually enhances the body's ability to absorb the salts from the salt water. Without the sugar, most of the salt never gets into the bloodstream.

 

[Pepsi90919]

honestly, walmart has the best water

 

[sandorski]

I really like the occassional Dasani Flavoured Water. Bought a six pack and had one a day though and by the 3rd or 4th day didn't enjoy it near as much. However, once in awhile it's nicer than drinking a Coke or other such drink.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: sandorski
I really like the occassional Dasani Flavoured Water. Bought a six pack and had one a day though and by the 3rd or 4th day didn't enjoy it near as much. However, once in awhile it's nicer than drinking a Coke or other such drink.

i LOVE the lemon flavored dasani. But I don't get it that much, instead I'll typically use one of those powder packets for a 16.9oz bottle. between crystal light and the lemon flavored powerade packets, I don't buy bottled water much. only bottled liquid I tend to buy is PowerAde (and thats just because only Coke products are available on campus. And not many flavors either.). I'll just use an old powerade bottle and fill it with water from the kitchen sink in my dorm.

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
honestly, walmart has the best water

honestly, one of my favorite bottled waters is Ice Mountain. That's what I'll get if I'm buying a bottle of water for a car ride or something. Or Target water.

 

[destrekor]

ignore

 

[Capt Caveman]

Filtered tap water with a little squeeze of lemon or lime juice.

 

[cKGunslinger]

It's got what plants crave!

 

[Sureshot324]

Bottled water is so cheap these days that you don't save much by using tap water. I buy 24 packs for about $6, which comes out to about 25 cents per bottle. My tap water usually tastes fine but occasionally it has a metallic taste to it, so I just stick with bottled water.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

then buy a different brand you dumbass.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
It's got what plants crave!

Hehe, you beat me to it

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: Sureshot324
Bottled water is so cheap these days that you don't save much by using tap water. I buy 24 packs for about $6, which comes out to about 25 cents per bottle. My tap water usually tastes fine but occasionally it has a metallic taste to it, so I just stick with bottled water.

Cheap compared to other bottled water maybe. But that $6 in bottled water is about $ .06 in tap water.

 

[Howard]

Man, $6 for 24 packs? We get 30 packs on sale for $3 sometimes.

 

[Skacer]

Lemon Dasani is good stuff. I buy it at work because I'm too lazy to bring anything to work with me.

 

[FoBoT]

all water has stuff in it, except distilled water
if you want plain old water, buy distilled water

let us know how you like that

 

[RagingBITCH]

Wow. OP completely owned.

 

[dug777]

I just drink water out of the tap

 

[Acanthus]

Do us all a favor and drink some ionized water, it is really pure.

 

[purbeast0]

dasani is my favorite bottled water.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
Get one of these, fill with tap water, and save some $$ on buying commercially bottled water which is likely tap water also.

Theres a few ad campaigns flying around that most bottle water is no good because like 80% of it doesnt come from glaciers or some shit.

Which is absolutely true, it is tap water originally, but then its distilled 2-8 times (depending on the company) and pure to the level that impurieties are measured parts per million, then salts and minerals are added artificially for taste.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: moshquerade
Get one of these, fill with tap water, and save some $$ on buying commercially bottled water which is likely tap water also.

Theres a few ad campaigns flying around that most bottle water is no good because like 80% of it doesnt come from glaciers or some shit.

Which is absolutely true, it is tap water originally, but then its distilled 2-8 times (depending on the company) and pure to the level that impurieties are measured parts per million, then salts and minerals are added artificially for taste.

Would you say there's ANY proven benefit to drinking bottled water rather than tap water?

Incidentally, the quality of your tap water is more than like FAR more tightly controlled than that in bottled water

EDIT: Not that I care if you want to buy bottled water, but it's somewhat like buying Monster cables

 

[LS20]

you know the 9$/bottle of waters (Fiji, for example) that use fanciwords like sourced from artesian wells and aquifers? its ground water... and has minerals naturally