Twinklecheeks
Full Member
I'm so confused...
A couple of weeks ago we established that we should only drink sparkling water in moderation. One person thought that this might be due to the sodium quantities in some bottled water which may make you retain some water. Since then I've been looking at the ingredients on bottled water and yes, some do have much more sodium than others. I've found one bottled sparkling water that contains much less sodium than most others, including still bottled water.
My question is this...most bottled waters both still and sparkling have "bottled at source" on them. How can they vary so much? I don't understand what happens to it at 'it's source' to make some contain much more than others. Obviously the 'fizz' has to be added to sparkling but does that really mean a load of other stuff is added too? I'm now wondering what the sodium quantities is in tap water. Does anyone know? I wonder if all water just contains it naturally from the ground? If so, then surely tap water contains all these ingredients too, we just don't think about it cause we can't read it on a label so we presume it hasn't got it in.
Again, this all boils down to...Why can't we drink bottled sparkling water freely? Especially if on the label it shows much less quantities of all the ingredients than say 'Buxton' spring water that we would buy and drink without blinking an eyelid...
The mind boggles....
Soz for the long post. My little mind is on over drive (cause I'm hungry and my BF is sat eating Bombay Mix and I want some lol) xxxx
A couple of weeks ago we established that we should only drink sparkling water in moderation. One person thought that this might be due to the sodium quantities in some bottled water which may make you retain some water. Since then I've been looking at the ingredients on bottled water and yes, some do have much more sodium than others. I've found one bottled sparkling water that contains much less sodium than most others, including still bottled water.
My question is this...most bottled waters both still and sparkling have "bottled at source" on them. How can they vary so much? I don't understand what happens to it at 'it's source' to make some contain much more than others. Obviously the 'fizz' has to be added to sparkling but does that really mean a load of other stuff is added too? I'm now wondering what the sodium quantities is in tap water. Does anyone know? I wonder if all water just contains it naturally from the ground? If so, then surely tap water contains all these ingredients too, we just don't think about it cause we can't read it on a label so we presume it hasn't got it in.
Again, this all boils down to...Why can't we drink bottled sparkling water freely? Especially if on the label it shows much less quantities of all the ingredients than say 'Buxton' spring water that we would buy and drink without blinking an eyelid...
The mind boggles....
Soz for the long post. My little mind is on over drive (cause I'm hungry and my BF is sat eating Bombay Mix and I want some lol) xxxx