Lol more ranting. SMARTWATER CON TRICK Dont waste your money on this. Smartwater has some amount of Calcium Chloride, Magnesium Chloride, and Potassium Bicarbonate in it. First of all, if you dissolve a bunch of this stuff in water, calcium will react with carbonate and precipitate out, and the extra CO2 will make the water fizzy. There’s obviously not enough of these salts in Smartwater to have that effect. Second, you might wonder what this stuff tastes like. Well, according to Wikipedia, calcium chloride tastes extremelysalty, magnesium chloride tastes bitter, and potassium bicarbonate tastes slightly alkaline when not mixed with acidic distilled water. Lol (Other equilibrium products, such as potassium chloride, are also salty.) Smart water isn’t salty, despite using even saltier salts than Gatorade uses from which we mightconclude that it’s not going to have enough electrolytes to make a difference. Or is their a masking sugary devil in this acidic bullshit drink from the same stable as the now in dock of the US courts vitamin water. Glaceau’s other products are all highly dubious. E.g. its “Vitamin Water” is sweetened with “crystalline fructose” which sounds really cool, right? “Crystals” are obviously healthy. Of course “crystalline fructose” is what you get by dehydrating high fructose corn syrup. If these guys were trying to make a genuinely healthy drink, they sure didn’t try very hard. So, based on circumstantial evidence at least, Smartwater is a confidence trick. It’s certainly not much worse in this respect than anybottled water, but it’s pretty sad that some doctors seem to have fallen for it. Post Script If you contact Glaceau directly and received the following information from Glaceau customer relations: we add a unique and purposeful combination of electrolytes to smartwater®. one liter of smartwater® contains 10mg of potassium, 10mg of calcium, and 15mg of magnesium. By contrast, Gatorade contains 440mg of sodium and 120mg of potassium per litre. But then its masked with 60% sugar. Evian contains 78mg of calcium, 24mg of magnesium, and 4mg of sodium, but makes no claims about electrolytes. Far more electrolytes than Smartwater but not enough to be considered an energy or mineral replacement water. Indeed, from what I can tell, smartwater contains less in the way of electrolytes than most typical mineral or spring waters you might buy, and probably less than your tap water. So the lesson here is pay a superstar and add a great marketing campaign and you can still con the public. Looks like Smartwater will soon be following vitamin water into the dock. All the above is for your information and education.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 10:45:35 +0000
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