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Subject:
bottled water
Category: Reference, Education and News > Consumer Information Asked by: motojoe-ga List Price: $5.00 |
Posted:
26 Oct 2005 08:07 PDT
Expires: 25 Nov 2005 07:07 PST Question ID: 585134 |
Does all bottled water start by being distilled first, then the minerals are added back? |
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Re: bottled water
From: ajnewbold-ga on 26 Oct 2005 08:22 PDT |
I think it depends on the type of bottled water. Some bottled water is "bottled at the source" -- the source usually being a natural spring somewhere. This type of bottled water contains whatever minerals happen to be in that particular spring's water, and I don't think that anything is added or taken away. There are other kinds of bottled water that consist mostly of just purified tap water (or in some cases, just tap water) and I'm not sure if they really do anything regarding mineral additives in those cases. |
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Re: bottled water
From: myoarin-ga on 26 Oct 2005 19:58 PDT |
It would be way too expensive to distill water and then add back minerals. The previous comment is correct. CO2 maybe added to the bubbly stuff. In Europe there have been some studies that showed that some bottled waters were less pure than the local tap water. |
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Re: bottled water
From: frde-ga on 27 Oct 2005 06:48 PDT |
In Europe most bottled water is Spring water ( in the UK they sensibly ignore the EU directives against passing it through UV light to kill off bacteria - or at least they used to until recently ) Coca Cola had a bottled water whose name I've conveniently forgotton, that was not even distilled, just straight from the mains (probably Carbon filtered). It no longer exists ) My father used to be rather involved in that industry, personally I regard it as a bit of a con - but pretty harmless. |
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Re: bottled water
From: knickers-ga on 11 Nov 2005 11:57 PST |
It depends on whether it is defined as "Mineral Water" which can be water from any route or whether is it "spring water" which must come from some form of natural underground spring. |
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