Mixing Kool-Aid with sparkling water would give you a nice foamy explosion.
Their reply was as informative as the reply I received from Morton Salt Co. I asked why a product was not available. Their reply summed up was, because they don’t make it. Well duh, that’s why I asked why not.
I keep expecting to see a warning on Diet Coke not to consume with Menthos.
Could be fluoride overloading. Products that go through a series of dehydration and rehydration steps during manufacturing and preparation can get unexpectedly high levels if fluoridated water is used throughout the process. Check out Tea, instant, powder, unsweetened… granted that’s the powder, but you still get 5 times the fluoride of regular tap water when prepared.
And to bring in Lambo’s comment… grapes seem to have a naturally high fluoride content. Considering the market for Kool-Aid is growing kids, they probably put the warning there due to fluoride concerns.
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Otto, what flavor(s) did you get?
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Grape and Tropical punch, both with the warning.
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Picked up some of those Kool-Aid single serve pakets at the grocery yesterday. They were on sale two-for-one and none of the Crystal Light flavors looked appelaing that day. Reading through the instructions, I find that it is recommended to avoid using sparkling or fluoridated water. Sparkling I can understand since the directions are to add the mix and shake, but why not fluoridated? And, isn’t most tap water fluoridated? Is this some sort of conspiracy by Kool-Aid and bottled water packagers to discourage tap water and increase the sale of bottled water?
I had intended last night to conduct an experiment, mixing up two doses, one with tap water (which I assume is fluoridated) and one with distilled water that’s left over from my dead Sea Monkey tank (unused in the jug, not from the tank itself) but got distracted. I can do that later still when I get home but I really need another person so the taste test is blind.
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dead Sea Monkeys? :mad:
Kool Aid doesn’t use real grapes to flavor the product, so what is in grapes doesn’t matter. I have a feeling that one of the artificial compounds will react with the fluoride. I was hoping a chemist would comment after the ingredients were listed.
Just to report in, while I have yet to do the tap water vs distilled water experiment, I can report with confidence that vodka most definitely changes the flavor.
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Why? Serious question - I can’t for the life of me imagine why someone would want to pay money for the same thing they can get for free.
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I’ll answer even though you didn’t ask me. Because it encourages me to drink more, especially in the summer months. If I get it from the tap, I will drink just a few sips. I don’t really like water. If I pull the bottle from the fridge, chances are extremely high I will drink the whole bottle.
I am aware I don’t need anything like 8 bottles…but bottles ensure I stay hydrated. And I don’t buy that often, as I drink tons of seltzer…but it’s still nice to have.
Not to mention there’s still no better way to pack water in a coolre than to throw a bunch of bottles in there.
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Just to report in, while I have yet to do the tap water vs distilled water experiment, I can report with confidence that vodka most definitely changes the flavor.
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I’m still waiting to find out about the Dead Sea monkeys. I guess they’d make it very salty…
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Not to mention there’s still no better way to pack water in a coolre than to throw a bunch of bottles in there.
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Well, only one better way, and that’s to freeze the bottles first*. Then you don’t need ice for your cooler, and your water is nice and cold when you want it. I buy a case of water for this purpose before every camping trip. Otherwise, I only buy bottled water if I’m out without my Nalgene bottle and I’m thirsty.
*buy only cheap water for this. Fuji and other expensive bottles are too rigid and can crack as the water expands, unless you pour out a third of the water in each one first. Cheap soft bottles have enough give to expand as the water freezes and can be frozen unopened.
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I’m still waiting to find out about the Dead Sea monkeys. I guess they’d make it very salty…
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No no, I did not add dead Sea Monkeys to anything. I had a tank of Sea Monkeys a few years ago which I got as a birthday present. I bought a gallon of distilled water to refill the tank as the tank water evaporated. Sadly, the Sea Monkeys all died suddenly and I have almost the entire gallon of distilled water left, where it’s been sitting untouched in a corner of my living room ever since.
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dead Sea Monkeys? :mad:
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Well, someone had to say it…
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WAG: to keep the calories down. Using a mix gets you the perfect balance of sweet, no aftertaste and fewer calories.
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Some of it may just be a question of volume of the product. To make 8 ounces of regular Kool-aid requires 17 grams of product containing 16 grams of sugar. The single serve packet has 7.7 grams of product with 7 grams of sugar. At the same time it reduces the calories by 50% it reduces the amount of product you have to stuff into the bottle by the same amount.
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I bought a gallon of distilled water to refill the tank as the tank water evaporated. Sadly, the Sea Monkeys all died suddenly and I have almost the entire gallon of distilled water left, where it’s been sitting untouched in a corner of my living room ever since.
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If you let the tank of dead sea monkey soup evaporate to dryness and then refilled it, chances are good you’d get a whole new generation of sea monkeys.