Have any of you tried Revive spring water available at Coles? I'm curious to know if it's any good.
Additionally, I'm looking for recommendations on affordable spring water brands. The tap water in my area isn't great, so I'm seeking suggestions. If you have any personal experiences or recommendations, please share them with me. Thank you!
I also don't like the taste of tap water. Boiled or filtered (Brita jug) water tastes fine to me. However when I have a chance, I buy a 10L Australian Mountain Waters box from Woolies for $6.90. The water is from Tasmanian spring and I absolutely love it. It reminds me of the water in New Zealand.
Is that coz of all the floating sperm in it?
Look up the reviews, wont dissapoint.
Link
Not my thoughts, i just googled it as they stated it was the best water ever and i noticed quite a few reviews with pics of what looked like floating sea monkeys.
https://www.google.com/search?q=tasmanian+mo7ntain+water+rev…
Not sure why OP doesn't just buy some to try it. Clearly taste is subjective.
If you're paranoid, boil your water twice and pass it through some viva paper towel in a mesh filter.
I lived in an area with old pipes that leeched iron. Yes, it gave a miniscule gentle yellow colour to the water, and it tasted a little furry at times, but it was full of iron and I reckon it helped me. When I had my annual blood test, my iron studies results were always in the high-normal range. BCC explained about all of this quite clearly, and they said there's actually nothing wrong with the water, but explained why some areas had water with an interesting taste and colour.
I moved out of BCC serviced area and low and behold…my iron levels were in the marginal range (barely within normal). I don't eat a lot of meat, and so that probably explains the difference since I moved.
Maybe the iron helped, but elemental iron has very poor bio-availability, and to get enough to drastically boost your blood heme levels would cause constipation in many people, or other gut upsets. Not saying everyone would get constipation, but i still wouldn't look at an iron-heavy water supply as a good thing.
non-heme iron, taken for long enough, over time, can definitely boost your iron levels.
I've actually tried to take too much non-heme iron (tablet form), but it's quite self limiting. At best, I can get to high-normal on all the measures of an iron study (1 test every 3 months). I did experience episodic nausea, but that was self limiting upon taking a break. Blood tests were all within acceptable ranges. I think I was just sensitive when taking iron tablets, which is relatively common (stomach wise).
These days I just take 20mg of iron per day (liposomal) and have a normal diet.
I can't say I've ever suffered with constipation, other than for when I had upper GI surgery in Jan of this year.
How much cheaper than Aldi is Revive?
It's on specials $5 for a pack of 24, 600 ml
Tap water is approximately $2 per kL, or $0.002 per litre. Even $5 for 24x600ml is $0.347/L or about 173x more expensive.
Not to mention the environmental issues (plastic waste, transportation) of bottled water.
Australia's water is perfectly drinkable. I suggest you try a bit harder to get used to the flavour, or do as others are suggesting and buy a filter.
but some people feel better when they spend more money
believing the dodgy spruikers' 'you get what you pay for'
so 'if it's cheap, must be no good' can be their line of thinking
recently I helped myself to a drink from a free drinking water fountain in central Sydney Pitt St pedestrian mall
and I remember noticing the look of surprise on the faces of a nearby family of Indian appearance - like 'wow - you can drink from a tap in this country - and it's free !?!?!?'
last I looked CocaCola in Western Sydney were paying something like $1 per 2.5M litres (an Olympic Swimming Pool size) for Sydney tap water and then onsold it after adding 9 teaspoons of sugar per litre or somesuch - to sell it for over a dollar a litre - so profiting by increasing the cost of the water by - oh, like 2,500,000 times … !
They certainly get more than they paid for !
Go for it
and currently cheaper than homebrand//aldi
Been on Brita filters for years now.
I'll have a look at this one. If it's natural spring water then it shouldn't have much difference between the others. Is their a particular metric you're after? How heavy the water feels, acidity, dissolved solids?
Taste wise it should be as "pure" as it gets.
I only drink water thats been filtered through the skin of extremely rare and endangered albino Rhino
Stopped buying bottled spring water and started filtering my own instead, much cheaper and no one can tell the difference in taste.
If you don't have a water filter on your tap then your body is the filter.
I really enjoy the taste of Yaru spring water from Coles. A friend gifted us a case and I loved the flavour, but otherwise we never buy water ourselves.
Get a reverse osmosis system installed at home to take out the chlorine, flouride and other nasties, with a mineraliser to add back in some flavour and you'll have something healthy that tastes great.. infinitely better than tap water. Only need to change the filters once per year and works out cheaper than buying bottled water too.
And I wouldn't worry about the absence of flouride and teeth decay, we have been living here for 7 years now with 3 kids who also use flouride free toothpaste, and eat loads of sugar, and the dentist has zero concerns about their teeth, with regular day/night brushing and a yearly dental visit (also sans flouride treatment) enough to deliver healthy, white, zero cavity smiles.
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Alkapower water, Alkalife Water, Evian, Aqualove.
Frequency H2O has some interesting taste for a treat.
Saxby’s Sparkling flavoured water is the best sparkling available but it may actually be discontinued sadly…
try imploded water
Other: water filter
Whole house water filtration. I've got it sitting in my garden on the mains. All the water going into my house is filtered and softened. I change the two of the three filters once a year and the softener once every six months. No more filter jugs either.
how much cost to do that ?
why two of the three?
It varies, but it's around $1500 to $3000, depending on features.
The softener (for whatever reason) doesn't last as long if the water is harder. Because a lot of WA water is desalinated, it seems to have a higher mineral content.
The other two particulate filters make it a year
Many smaller inland towns use bore water afaik. The water in Moree was horrid. I couldn't drink it out of the tap.
Also I've had the revive water. It just tastes like bottled water. I.e. very neutral and tasteless but inoffensive.
Refresh water is the best water in Australia