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So after having the "default" flavor of bottled water (you know, water flavor), I decided to try the lemon and rasberry flavors of Dasani bottled water. So far I enjoy them, but I'm trying to watch my sugar intake and all, and am curious how the bottle can say zero across the board for calories, sugar, etc when you can taste the lemon and sweetness, and same with the rasberry.

Anyway, if someone could answer this question (and maybe let me know if these are just as healthy as normal "default" water) that would be great.
 
Just checked it over. This stuff has Splenda in it. Is this good or bad? Like I said, I'm trying to stick to water mostly as far as drinking goes, and if this stuff with the fruit flavor's bad, well I need to know.
 
Splenda sweetner is supposedly more healthy. I wouldn't worry about it too much, and I think google would give you better answers about this than most of us.
 
ManDudeChild said:
Just checked it over. This stuff has Splenda in it. Is this good or bad? Like I said, I'm trying to stick to water mostly as far as drinking goes, and if this stuff with the fruit flavor's bad, well I need to know.
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I think they use that in Coke C2 ... it's basically like aspartame (in that's it's an artifical sweetener) except even more potent. I'd google it though -- I could be wrong.
 
Theres a reason Dasani is the cheapest water here in the U.S(It's the shittiest). I have to pay 1.49 for a bottle of Poland Springs at school, yet Dasani can be bought for a $1. If I need to drink Dasani, i'll just go to the nearest faucet.
 
OpinionatedCyborg said:
I think they use that in Coke C2 ... it's basically like aspartame (in that's it's an artifical sweetener) except even more potent. I'd google it though -- I could be wrong.
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no, coke C2 (and originally pepsi one) use Ace K. Spelnda is used in the new Diet Coke (identifiable by a yellow band across it and the "splenda" brand on the side of the bottle) and the new Pepsi One (the bottles say "great new taste" on them). It's much less potent than aspartame (which really doesn't matter, 1 packet of sweetener is about the same sweetness for all different types of sweeteners).

It's basically just sugar with some of the ends of the molecule chlorinated so your body can't digest it. Read more about it here
 
I read a fascinating article on the New York Times website the other day by Tom Standage (of The Economist)--

He completed a test with his friends, proving that none of them could tell the difference between bottled water and tap water, and goes on to make a few more points--

--There are no health or nutritional benefits of bottled water over tap water,

--Bottled water is a $40 billion/year industry, second in the US only to carbonated beverages,

--It is "shipped at vast expense, refrigerated, and millions of plastic bottles end up in landfills,"

And finally, the most important point:

The fact that 80% of preventable disease in the world is caused by poor sanitation, sewage, and water-transmitted diseases/parasites, while we in developed countries spend billions on water we don't even need. The WHO estimates that it would cost approx/$11 bilion to bring good water systems to most of the third world, only about a quarter of what we spend every year on bottled water.

I'm not personally ready to take the plunge fully into plain tap water (fluoride damage to my teeth is a constant reminder)--but I plan on buying a Brita water pitcher as soon as I return to college next week.

Of course I don't expect this to save the world, but the article proved once again how wasteful we can be while others suffer needlessly.
 
KingGondo said:
I read a fascinating article on the New York Times website the other day by Tom Standage (of The Economist)--

He completed a test with his friends, proving that none of them could tell the difference between bottled water and tap water, and goes on to make a few more points--

--There are no health or nutritional benefits of bottled water over tap water,

--Bottled water is a $40 billion/year industry, second in the US only to carbonated beverages,

--It is "shipped at vast expense, refrigerated, and millions of plastic bottles end up in landfills,"

And finally, the most important point:

The fact that 80% of preventable disease in the world is caused by poor sanitation, sewage, and water-transmitted diseases/parasites, while we in developed countries spend billions on water we don't even need. The WHO estimates that it would cost approx/$11 bilion to bring good water systems to most of the third world, only about a quarter of what we spend every year on bottled water.

I'm not personally ready to take the plunge fully into plain tap water (fluoride damage to my teeth is a constant reminder)--but I plan on buying a Brita water pitcher as soon as I return to college next week.

Of course I don't expect this to save the world, but the article proved once again how wasteful we can be while others suffer needlessly.
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I go to college also, and i cant afford no $40 filter, just so my water can be *supposedly* fresh.
 
KingGondo said:
I read a fascinating article on the New York Times website the other day by Tom Standage (of The Economist)--

He completed a test with his friends, proving that none of them could tell the difference between bottled water and tap water, and goes on to make a few more points--

--There are no health or nutritional benefits of bottled water over tap water,

--Bottled water is a $40 billion/year industry, second in the US only to carbonated beverages,

--It is "shipped at vast expense, refrigerated, and millions of plastic bottles end up in landfills,"

And finally, the most important point:

The fact that 80% of preventable disease in the world is caused by poor sanitation, sewage, and water-transmitted diseases/parasites, while we in developed countries spend billions on water we don't even need. The WHO estimates that it would cost approx/$11 bilion to bring good water systems to most of the third world, only about a quarter of what we spend every year on bottled water.

I'm not personally ready to take the plunge fully into plain tap water (fluoride damage to my teeth is a constant reminder)--but I plan on buying a Brita water pitcher as soon as I return to college next week.

Of course I don't expect this to save the world, but the article proved once again how wasteful we can be while others suffer needlessly.
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I live in Los Angeles. I don't dare down the road of tap water here. Thx, I'll waste my money on bottled water.
 
BigZep said:
I go to college also, and i cant afford no $40 filter, just so my water can be *supposedly* fresh.
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So you'd rather buy "supposedly fresh" bottled water?

I'm mainly doing it to save money, actually.

One $40 purchase

vs.

Hundreds of one dollar purchases over the course of a year (or at the very least, a bunch of bulk water bought at Sam's Club/Costco).

Why doesn't this make sense, Santo? The water in places like LA is tested FAR more often than the average bottled water, and if you use a filter it's perfectly safe.
 
KingGondo said:
So you'd rather buy "supposedly fresh" bottled water?

I'm mainly doing it to save money, actually.

One $40 purchase

vs.

Hundreds of one dollar purchases over the course of a year (or at the very least, a bunch of bulk water bought at Sam's Club/Costco).

Why doesn't this make sense, Santo? The water in places like LA is tested FAR more often than the average bottled water, and if you use a filter it's perfectly safe.
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If im not mistaken, dont you have to keep buying filters? and those arent that cheap...that shit adds up.
 
BigZep said:
If im not mistaken, dont you have to keep buying filters? and those arent that cheap...that shit adds up.
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Yeah, they are. Ten-pack of Brita brand filters is $36 at Costco. Each filter lasts several months.

KingGondo said:
Hundreds of one dollar purchases over the course of a year (or at the very least, a bunch of bulk water bought at Sam's Club/Costco).
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Costco bottled water is cheap too. 35 bottles for like $5. You'll never buy a $1 again once you see that.


And yeah, tap waters and bottled waters all have a distinct taste. Nobody drinks actual H2O, it's all enriched/contaminated with various chemicals and minerals. Getting a high class filter is actually one of the closest things you can do to getting great fresh water.
 
Throughout my life I've always been a water from the faucet guy but since I now live in LA my tap water is awful. I've just been buying 2 1/2 gallons of Sparkletts from the grocery store and it usually lasts about a week. Bottled water is without a doubt one of the greatest money making schemes of all time. The episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit where they had people drink tap water was brilliant and oh so telling of how customers are suckers for good marketing.
 
ChrisReid said:
Costco bottled water is cheap too. 35 bottles for like $5. You'll never buy a $1 again once you see that.
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True, it's very possible to get cheap bottled water. I guess in this aspect it's more of a vegetarian/recycling type-thing: It makes me feel better, even if it doesn't do a ton of good in the big picture. *shrugs shoulders* I'm not trying to be condescending, just bringing in another point of view. :)
 
The big scandal with Dasani over here was that it was basically tap water in a bottle. I can make that myself, using just a bottle and some tap water.

The thing that never made the headlines was the... secret protein ingredient...

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we use a brita jug nowadays. Used to drink Volvic, but it was just too impractical. Brita takes away the nasty aftertaste in tap water for me,and it reduces the hardness (our water is really hard)
 
Wafflecopter said:
Splenda sweetner is supposedly more healthy. I wouldn't worry about it too much, and I think google would give you better answers about this than most of us.
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Actually, Google will probably take you to fearmongering sites that tell you your hair will fall out and the stuff will pickle you.

ANYhow...

Re: the latest direction of the thread -- if you drink a ton of water, your local tap water sucks and you're worried about cost, IMO, the best solution may be a water cooler. Sure it'll cost you a bit to actually purchase it (or rent it -- a lot of water places do rent-to-own, I think), but a few bucks for a huge jug of water is cheaper than anything you'll find at your supermarket that isn't said huge jug of water.

EDIT: A Brita filter is probably alright too, but I guess the question is whether it will have the desired impact on your water (taste-wise) if your local water system sucks.
 
We have a water cooler here, though I'm perfectly happy to drink the tap water. Mind you, as most of our water comes from China I'm not entirely sure how safe that is, as the areas immediately across the border may be familiar to anyone who's heard of such fabulous diseases as Bird Flu and SARS.
 
Nerevar said:
no, coke C2 (and originally pepsi one) use Ace K. Spelnda is used in the new Diet Coke (identifiable by a yellow band across it and the "splenda" brand on the side of the bottle) and the new Pepsi One (the bottles say "great new taste" on them). It's much less potent than aspartame (which really doesn't matter, 1 packet of sweetener is about the same sweetness for all different types of sweeteners).

It's basically just sugar with some of the ends of the molecule chlorinated so your body can't digest it. Read more about it here
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Did you read the wikipedia article you posted?

Coca-Cola and Pepsi released new versions of their colas (Coke C2 and Pepsi EDGE) replacing half of the traditional high fructose corn syrup with sucralose (C2 also uses aspartame and acesulfame potassium).
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And from the Coca-Cola C2 article:

It contains aspartame, acesulfame potassium, and sucralose in addition to the high fructose corn syrup typically found in cola beverages distributed in America. It has more calories than Diet Coke, but its taste is much closer to standard Coke.
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As for this:
It's much less potent than aspartame (which really doesn't matter, 1 packet of sweetener is about the same sweetness for all different types of sweeteners).
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You're wrong.

Aspartame is 160 - 200 times more potent than sugar (which I said) as opposed to Splenda's (sucralose) 600 times.

From the Aspartame wikipedia article:
It is 160 times sweeter than sugar (sucrose or saccharose), and is marketed under a number of trademark names, such as NutraSweet, Equal, and Canderel
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That's weird. Where I am Dasani was usually the most expensive and most people REALLY like the taste, myself included. I think maybe it's because they're usually the coldest drink in the machines.

I fucking hate Arrowhead water. 3 month old Kirkland water with chapstick residue tastes better than a new bottle of Arrowhead. >:(
 
I believe the only time I have purchased bottled water is when I have been on the ski slopes and I need convenient, quick water.

Otherwise it's out of the tap. I cannot discern any difference in taste between water from a river, tap or bottle.

It boggles my mind how an industry so, well... vain can explode as it has.
 
People who buy bottled water are just suckers.

If you care so much, do you use bottled water when you make juice, in your cooking, etc.?

:lol

Whatever, I'm not one to waste my money on water, Jesus.
 
samus4ever said:
h20. is h20.
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Except the water you use and drink daily is not 100.0% H2O(unless you buy distilled), but has lots of impurities that make water electrically conductive and give it its taste.
 
All those artificial sweeters are such garbage. You may as well just injest the few calories in the sugar than get all that artificial crap in the name of 0 calories.
 
I've used home filtered and distilled water for some 15 years now... and bottled water of any sort kinda just tastes like crap. Especially compared to distilled water.
 
Um...how bout this?

Boil your water?!

Damn crazy concept, I know.

That will kill any bacteria and whatever shit is floating in there.

PS. You can store the water in a container and put it in the fridge if you want cold water :P
 
royale said:
Um...how bout this?

Boil your water?!

Damn crazy concept, I know.

That will kill any bacteria and whatever shit is floating in there.

PS. You can store the water in a container and put it in the fridge if you want cold water :P
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But then the buggies are floating around dead in my water!!!!

Ewwwww!!!!!!!633!!!
 
miyuru said:
People who buy bottled water are just suckers.

If you care so much, do you use bottled water when you make juice, in your cooking, etc.?

:lol

Whatever, I'm not one to waste my money on water, Jesus.
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When making pasta, boiling water will change its properties, so the answer here is no.
 
OpinionatedCyborg said:
Did you read the wikipedia article you posted?
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:lol

actually, no, I didn't.

And I just figured C2 didn't use splenda because it has that awful metallic taste that regular diet coke has. I guess the aspartame overwhelms the sucralose in it. Oh well.
 
How does deionized water taste? I always meant to grab a cup from the science labs at school, but never got around to it ;)
 
GaimeGuy said:
Evian > tap water (in taste)
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Hmmm...

Evian backwards spells...NAIVE. *gasp* Evian is making fun of you!

That being said, I use a PUR on tap water filter. I use for when make ice cubes, drinking, making juice, watering my plants and bathing. It works great and is relatively cheap compared to buying the big water jugs. You wanna make some money? Invest in the bottled water companies that make it into China. Gonna be *huge*.

Oh, and I don't really use it for bathing. If I'm gonna be boiling the water I don't use the filtered water since, you know, it's gonna be boiled.

I have a killer recipe for a new bottled water that is going take the world by storm. By applying my knowledge of organic and biochemistry I'm going to make a water that humans will be physically dependent on. Oh...right - that's already been done. Regardless, I will not be denied!

Zaptruder, in regards to the distilled water, how does it taste in comparison to regular filtered water that has *not* been distilled?
 
miyuru said:
People who buy bottled water are just suckers.

If you care so much, do you use bottled water when you make juice, in your cooking, etc.?

:lol

Whatever, I'm not one to waste my money on water, Jesus.
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Tell that to the people in Walkerton, Ontario. The ones that are at least still alive.

Don't get me wrong, I know what you mean, but after having filtered water...tap water is hard to drink. Try it for a month. If it sucks, go back to your tap water. Money back guarantee*





*Not really
 
SickBoy said:
Actually, Google will probably take you to fearmongering sites that tell you your hair will fall out and the stuff will pickle you.

ANYhow...

Re: the latest direction of the thread -- if you drink a ton of water, your local tap water sucks and you're worried about cost, IMO, the best solution may be a water cooler. Sure it'll cost you a bit to actually purchase it (or rent it -- a lot of water places do rent-to-own, I think), but a few bucks for a huge jug of water is cheaper than anything you'll find at your supermarket that isn't said huge jug of water.
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We drink a ton of water here, and I've found that the best solution (price-wise) is those 2.5 gallon containers they have at grocery stores. You just stick one of those in your fridge, and use the spout on it. We actually thought about getting a cooler and a service set up, but it actually costs more per gallon that way, since the stuff's being delivered to your house.

EDIT: A Brita filter is probably alright too, but I guess the question is whether it will have the desired impact on your water (taste-wise) if your local water system sucks.
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Yup. While a Brita filter can improve the taste of tap water, really bad tap water will still taste a bit off even after being run through the filter.
 
xsarien said:
Here's what I don't get:
Bottled spring water is usually - if not always - labeled as such. Anything else is obviously just filtered ("purified," to use Coke's language) tap water. At least, that's my logic. I don't see what all the fuss was about.
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I'm guessing you're from the US? Things sound a bit different there to the UK. Basically any bottled water you find on the shelf in the UK is spring water. There'd never been any demand here for purified water. Taking water out of a tap in Sidcup, filtering it, then selling it back to the public for a pound a bottle struck the public as a bit of a con :)

The fact that in the filtering process Coca-Cola had managed to make the water less pure than it came out of the tap was the icing on the cake.

I doubt we'll ever see Dasani in the UK again.
 
Nash said:
I'm guessing you're from the US? Things sound a bit different there to the UK. Basically any bottled water you find on the shelf in the UK is spring water.
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I guess things are a bit different. Of all the different brands of bottled water here, "spring water" is specifically noted on the label. Fairly prominently, I might add. Dasani (I don't have a bottle here to inspect, unfortunately) isn't. I know that much, because at first it struck me as very odd. The sterile taste of it only confirmed my suspicions.
 
iapetus said:
You do realise that Dasani contains Dihydrogen Monoxide, yes? You want to keep away from that shit.
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:lol

I was late to one of my sociology classes one day and they were talking about something and they were all just stumped. I walk in and see "dihydrogen monoxide" and I start going through the simple process through my head.....two H.....1 O.....H2O...water....ok....

She had just finished going over that website I believe, if not, a similar one, and everyone was like "OMG"
I got a "I'll pretend you weren't late since you were the only one who figured it out"
:p
Then I was late the next day :/
 
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