Drinking water of the highest category. bottled water rating

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

In Europe, there has long been a rule to drink at least 2 liters of non-carbonated water every day, regardless of the number of first courses eaten and coffee, tea, and other drinks drunk. This norm is sacredly observed by people of any profession and any material we alth. In our country, people are also gradually joining this rule, but not everyone knows what kind of water is better to buy. There are so many of them on the shelves of stores that the eyes run wide. Few people meticulously read the information on the labels, moreover, it is often served in such small print that you need to take a magnifying glass. Therefore, among the abundance of brands, some choose the most famous, others - the one that is cheaper, believing that the water is all the same. This is not entirely true, because there is water of the highest category and the first, and among them there is natural and purified, which is far from the same thing. So what kind of water should be taken in order to benefit from it? Let's figure it out.

Why does the body need water

Even children know that we are all 80%we are made of water. Every day 500 ml is lost with sweat and breath, 1500 ml - with urine. Here, in order to restore the losses, you need to pour in yourself 2000 lost ml, only it should be high-quality drinking water. All this is true, but only partly.

Firstly, the figure of 80% is the average, but in fact, depending on age, weight and other indicators of water in each of us is a different amount. Secondly, we lose it also in different ways. More in the heat, less in the cold, more on the move, less on the couch. That is, someone needs to drink 2 liters of it, and for someone, even 3 will not be enough. But why drink it? Is it only to recover losses? It turns out that water is able to easily dissolve both organics and all kinds of chemical compounds, such as s alts. Once in our body, it takes in a lot of harmful substances that are safely excreted in the urine. Thus, there is a natural cleaning of our systems from toxins and other muck. Of course, the best drinking water, that is, chemically purer, copes with this task much more efficiently. And another important function of water is that chemical reactions take place in it and complex complex compounds are formed, without which we cannot live. That is why the loss of our body of only about 10% of the fluid can end very sadly.

Types of drinking water

Now they write a lot about what drinking water of the highest category is. The rating of this product partly helps to find out which brand to buy. It was foundedon all kinds of analyzes and tests that determine the compliance of the chemical composition of water with GOST and SanPiNam. But the results of such checks are rarely displayed on the labels. But there is almost always evidence that water was extracted in such and such a region from such and such a depth, and other data that are not understandable to everyone are also reported. To clarify the situation, and perhaps even more confuse it, we note that in nature there are approximately 476 modifications of water, depending on which isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen make up its molecule. Naturally, the properties of these waters are different, and not all of them are equally beneficial to he alth. Fortunately, not all modifications can last long enough, and information about them is not displayed on the labels at all. What kind of water can be used for drinking? Its most famous types are:

• light;
• heavy;
• soft;
• tough;
• underground (extracted from wells and aquifers);
• mineral;
• tap;
• cleaned.

Drinking water categories

Except for the technical, which is not considered in this article, there are two categories of water - the highest and the first. Each country has GOSTs and SanPiNs for bottled drinking water that regulate their taste, color, chemical composition, and transparency. Drinking water of both categories, unless it is therapeutic mineral water, must be clear, odorless, foreign impurities and sediment, otherwise it cannot be consumed at all. Regarding the chemical composition of the higherrequirements, of course, must be met by drinking water of the highest category. The rating, taken into account by many buyers, shows which brands of water that passed the quality control meet the standards. It is this product that is becoming the most popular. Now about 700 types of drinking water are produced. It is clear that it is difficult to check all of them, and unscrupulous manufacturers can write anything on the label. How can an ordinary person distinguish high-quality water from a fake?

First, for the price. If the water is really extracted in an ecologically clean region, and even from a decent depth, then it has high production costs. Therefore, it cannot be cheap. If the water is of poor quality, the manufacturer does not risk setting a high price, since it is very important for him to quickly sell his product and get the benefit before a possible test.

Second, according to the information on the label. On it, if indeed the water is of the highest category, the place of its extraction, the address and website of the manufacturer, and the chemical composition must be indicated. In reality, almost all elements from the periodic table can be present in natural drinking water, but most of the chemical elements are so small that they are not taken into account.

Mainly indicate the content of such chemicals and compounds:

• potassium (up to 10 mg/l);
• magnesium (up to 20 mg/l);
• sodium (up to 100 mg/l);
• calcium (up to 20 mg/l);
• nitrates (up to 45 mg/l);
• chlorides (up to 100mg/L);
• sulfates (up to 30 mg/l);
• hydrocarbonates (up to 300 mg/l).

Sometimes the labels indicate the pH of the water, which should be in the range of 6, 5-7, 5. The discrepancy of even one of these indicators does not give the right to assign the highest category to water.

Water is light and heavy

The taste, color, smell of both are the same, but they are very different in usefulness. Numerous experiments have proven that the best drinking water, which, among other things, has high healing properties, is light. There are practically no impurities of deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen) and other heavy elements in it, therefore, the purification of the body from toxins, and all metabolic processes in it, are better. Light water even in the treatment of cancerous tumors helps. Heavy water, in which deuterium atoms are attached to the oxygen atom, is harmless to humans if you drink it in small quantities. But there is no benefit from it either. In nature, deuterium molecules are found in any water, no matter how deep it is extracted from wells. It is logical that these molecules contain any drinking water of the highest category. There is no rating on this issue, but choosing bottled water, you can buy products from well-established brands, and at home make this good, but ordinary water light by freezing in the refrigerator and then thawing. What will melt, first of all, will be the cleanest drinking water in the world, which is the most beneficial for he alth. And it is advisable to throw away the rest of the ice after such a procedure, since it will collect all harmful impurities.

Water is soft and hard

Things are easier with these characteristics. Soft water or hard - depends on the content of magnesium and calcium s alts in it. In small quantities, you can drink both, and in large quantities, hard water can lead to the formation of kidney stones, and soft water can lead to pressure problems. In everyday life, you can determine the hardness of water by eye. So, if there is too much calcium and magnesium s alts in it, there will be little foam when soaping the hands, and if there is a shortage, it will seem that the soap is not washed off the hands. But when buying water in a store, no one conducts such experiments. Yes, this is not necessary, because the content of hardness s alts in water is strictly defined by GOST and must be indicated on the label. Numbers may vary slightly from country to country.

In Russia since 2014-01-01, water hardness is measured in degrees and is denoted as “°F” or in milligram equivalents per liter, of which there should be at least 1.5 and no more than 2.5 units in drinking water. Sometimes the labels do not indicate hardness, but the amount of calcium (Ca2+) and magnesium (Mg2+), as well as their s alts (CaSO4, MgSO4, CaCl2, MgCl2). The amount of each s alt is not regulated by GOST, it only indicates how many of them should be in total. If these standards are met, then we may well have drinking water of the highest category suitable for everyday use. The rating, in order to be high, must take into account the content in it of other useful trace elements, especially nitrates. As for the tests for magnesium-calcium, such popular brands as Aqua Minerale, Dombay did not pass it, and inThe water of the brands "Holy Spring" and "Shishkin Forest" turned out to be a lot of chlorine.

Mineral water

Now mineral water is freely sold in any store, so many people buy it as ordinary drinking water, being sure that mineral water is any where there are trace elements. In fact, mineral water is called water, extracted only from certain aquifers and having a strictly regulated chemical composition. Just this water of the highest category can have a rather unpleasant taste, smell, and sometimes even color and sediment, which depends on the s alts with which it is rich. It is important to know that, despite the rich (indicated on the labels) chemical composition, water is not considered mineral if it is a mixture of natural and artificial.

Will not be a high-quality mineral water and water, which is a mixture extracted from various aquifers, but, unfortunately, this cannot be determined by the label. You can navigate here only by the names of brands. Thus, time-tested and well-reviewed natural drinking water is Borjomi, Narzan, Essentuki, Mukhinskaya, and in Ukraine - Mirgorodskaya, Kuyalnik, Polyana Kvasova. In terms of composition, mineral waters can be sulfate, bicarbonate, chloride, mixed, and in terms of the concentration of useful substances they can be table waters (trace elements in them up to 1 gram per 1 dm3), medicinal table waters (trace elements up to 10 grams per dm33) and curative. Daily use without consulting a doctor can only be a dining room.

Tap and purified water

Before, no one bought bottled water, and even non-carbonated water, everyone drank tap water. There are also GOST and SanPiN standards for its purity, therefore, in principle, it should be suitable for drinking in any quantities. Tap water in most countries is subjected to several stages of purification: mechanical, coagulation, filtration, aeration, sterilization or, in other words, chlorination. Despite such a serious technology, the rating of drinking tap water is one of the lowest, because it almost always contains s alts of various chemical elements in large quantities, these elements themselves, such as chlorine, and sometimes pathogens. Therefore, we no longer want to drink such water.

Savvy entrepreneurs figured out how to capitalize on it and still do good. The method is simple and consists in additional cleaning. The cost of the whole process is relatively low, so the price of the product is low, although the label may indicate that the water is crystal clear, mineralized and generally the best.

However, a reasonable buyer should understand that the best bottled water cannot cost 5-10 rubles per liter and a half, even if it says "spring" or "artesian". For comparison, bottled water, extracted from pure natural sources of the Alps, pulls 70-80 rubles per liter bottle.

But what is purified water? We use two methods: trusted by the people, although little understood, reverse osmosis and mysterious coagulation. Let's figure it outhow they work.

Reverse osmosis is the passage of water through several membranes with a microscopic texture, on which all elements dissolved in water remain one after another. The result is almost perfectly pure, similar to distilled water. For he alth, it is not useful, because, once in the human body, it begins to replenish the useful substances removed from it, taking them away from our body. To prevent this from happening, manufacturers enrich it again, so the composition of trace elements indicated on the labels of such water may be correct, but the highest category is rarely assigned to it.

Coagulation is the addition of a coagulant (clarifier) to ordinary water, which precipitates some chemicals and trace elements. After that, the water is separated from the sediment and bottled. The process is so cheap and easy that about 70% of all manufacturers use it. So, buying the cheapest drinking water, you can stumble upon a product that is not very he althy.

Water from the bowels of the Earth

Wells of various depths (even more than 50 meters) are available in many Russians in their yards. It would seem, why should they buy bottled natural water, if you can use your own, also natural. However, chemical analyzes of such water show the excess of microelements in it not by two, or even ten, but several tens of times. Obviously, you can't drink it. The problem is that the entire thickness of the earth's crust, like a cake of cakes, is made up of geological layers - loams, sandstones, limestones andothers. The closer to the surface of the earth and the closer to settlements, especially to industrial centers, the more chemical elements, garbage, waste products of people and animals are in the layers. All this easily enters shallow water layers, so they can only be used for drinking after thorough cleaning.

Unsuitable for drinking and the so-called high water formed during floods, river floods. And yet, the bowels of the Earth can give us clean and he althy water, only to get it, you need to drill artesian wells. In different regions, their depth varies from 100 to 1000 meters. The required water must be between the impermeable layers of rocks and be under pressure there, therefore, from a drilled well, it gushes like a fountain. In many ways, artesian water is the best bottled water available in stores, despite the fact that it also contains some s alts and trace elements. Manufacturers, as a rule, indicate on the labels from what depth and in what region their product was mined. If it is, for example, the Carpathians, the Urals or the Alps, whose ecological cleanliness no one doubts, we can safely say that such drinking water is of excellent quality. There can be dozens of brand names here. Which one to choose if there are no well-known and popular ones on sale? There is only one advice here - trust the information on the label.

Soda water

Soda is considered to quench thirst better than plain water, that it is tastier and completely harmless. But is it useful? If we take European countries, for exampleGreece, the founder of the rule of daily and mandatory drinking of water, so it is almost impossible to meet soda in one and a half liter, and even more so two-liter eggplants. Such water is sold in a maximum of half-liter glass bottles, not counting the classic soda.

We carbonate water all in a row, adding carbon dioxide to it. It really changes the taste, and besides, it helps the s alts to stay dissolved and not precipitate. It is for this purpose that mineral waters are enriched with carbon dioxide before bottling, because there are a lot of s alts in them. Should non-mineral water of the highest category be carbonated? And why do this if there are not so many s alts in plain water to be afraid of their precipitation, and the taste should be good even without carbon dioxide? The answer to these controversial questions may be the taste preferences of consumers, many of whom like soda.

Products of famous brands, whose manufacturers value their name, can be safely purchased, but when buying cheap soda, it is useful to think about whether there is something good in it, except for carbon dioxide. But high-quality carbonated water should not be drunk in large quantities, since CO2, which is part of it, activates the secretion of gastric juice, adversely affects enamel, and contributes to increased gas formation in the intestines.

Rating of brand-name drinking water

A single study that would cover all commercially available water, including cooler water, untilwas carried out, so the rating of brands can be considered conditional, since it is based on checks made selectively. According to some data, Bon Aqua water is the best, followed by Holy Spring, Aqua Minerale, Arkhyz. According to others, "Holy Spring" and "Aqua Minerale" did not reach the highest category at all, and the first place was taken by the Nizhny Novgorod water "Dixie". Second and third places went to "foreigners", the French Vittel and Evian. Not only in Russia, but also in Europe, this is water of the highest category. Customer reviews about it are excellent, but absolutely all respondents note the high price.

Domestic "Lipetsk buvet" is a little cheaper, but it also has fewer microelements. "Aqua Minerale" according to the results of the test turned out to be without trace elements at all, that is, almost sterile, although the label does not say this. But the waters Shishkin Les, Prosto Azbuka, Crristaline, Aparan, Holy Spring and even Bon Aqua, bottled in Moscow, were blacklisted due to gross violations of quality standards and deception of buyers.