# Vitamin Water **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 18, 2004, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-water/245727 "2004-05-18T06:54:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Cloud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@Little\_Cloud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Cloud)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-water/245727/1 "2004-05-18T06:54:36Z")
Do you drink it? Like it? [http://www.focusonstyle.com/stylething/designerwater.htm](http://www.focusonstyle.com/stylething/designerwater.htm) I met a woman on a flight home to New york who told me she was coming from California to New York to market Vitamin Water. Having never heard of this stuff before, I thought it was some new-age yuppie thing that New Yorkers would soundly reject. Glad I didn’t voice my opinion. Some months later I tried some and am now addicted to the stuff. It has half the calories of soda and is infinitely more refreshing. Can’t taste the vitamins - It just tastes like _mildly flavored_ water. None of that Gatorade electrolyte aftertaste. I can drink huge quantities of the stuff without going into a sugar coma. I especially like the peach flavor (Endurance, they call it) and the dragonfruit flavor (called Focus-C). I met this woman last October and now this stuff is sold in every supermarket and bodega in NYC. Everyone I have given a taste to goes out and starts buying it. People who see me drinking it assume I do it for the vitamins. Coudn’t care less about that. I believe anybody who eats a decent diet is just making expensive urine when they take handfulls of vitamins every day. (Mega dose Vitamin C being the exception.) The bottles have self-depecrating, humorous descriptions on the side to let you know that you don’t have to take it too seriously. So, do you have this stuff in your area? Whay do you think of it? ---
**Author:** ![siberia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/siberia/32/9129_2.png) [@siberia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/siberia)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-water/245727/2 "2004-05-18T14:06:18Z")
It sounds interesting. I haven’t seen it around here (Houston). Does it have a sweet taste? ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-water/245727/3 "2004-05-18T14:16:26Z")
:dubious: Cost? Heck, water plus vitamins must be pricey. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-water/245727/4 "2004-05-18T14:20:37Z")
They had some samples at my racquetball club, so I tried it. GAAAAK! Vitamins + water + too much artifical sweetener + flavoring. Gimme plain water anytime. Or a Pepsi. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-water/245727/5 "2004-05-18T15:34:27Z")
I am not such a huge fan of plain water. I prefer something with a little bit of flavor. Soda and juice are just too damn sweet for me, never mind the calories. Gatorade has a little less sugar, but the downside is, it tastes like Gatorade. I really like Galceau’s Fruitwater, and the Vitamin stuff is okay. It’s too expensive to drink a lot of it, though I stock up when there’s a sale. Why is it always some kind of super-expensive woo-woo herbal-remedy designer-vitamin deal? I wish someone would just make a lightly sweetened beverage that was a cheap as soda. It can’t be that hard! ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-water/245727/6 "2004-05-18T15:38:43Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Vitamins + water + too much artifical sweetener + flavoring. Glaceau Vitamin Water (which I was also, despite the fact that I can’t spell or type) it’s sweetened with fructose, and contains no artificial sweeteners. [Vitamin Water Nutritional Information.](http://www.bevnet.com/reviews/glaceauvitamin/facts.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-water/245727/7 "2004-05-18T15:40:07Z")
_Which I was referring to above,_ I mean. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-water/245727/8 "2004-05-18T16:41:40Z")
Yes. I like Vitamin Water. I accept that I’m paying a lot for branding, and that it’s really a less-sweet form of Kool-Aid for grownups, and that the supposed health benefits don’t really mean much. Doesn’t matter. They’re tasty. I drink one a day at most if I stocked up at a sale. (Whole Foods last night, for example, was selling them at $.99 a bottle. Deal!) ---
**Author:** ![chula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-water/245727/9 "2004-05-18T17:40:47Z")
Tastes like Gatorade. It’s fine, but not worth what they charge. I think I paid close to $3 for a bottle in NYC. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_On_My_Sleeve)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-water/245727/10 "2004-05-18T19:00:43Z")
> [@Podkayne](#): > > I am not such a huge fan of plain water. I prefer something with a little bit of flavor…It can’t be that hard! Ditto. Exactly. The lowest I’ve paid is $.89 at Trader Joe’s in Northbrook, IL–not too bad. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Cloud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@Little\_Cloud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Cloud)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-water/245727/11 "2004-05-18T19:46:09Z")
Yeah- it’s overpriced but it’s the only drink that has a _little_ flavor and a _little_ sweetness. It costs about $2 for a 20 oz. bottle in most places in NYC. Certainly better than paying through the nose for _plain bottled water_ that many investigative journalists have revealed is mostly bottled local tap water. I will never understand why people who live in places like NYC (which has excellent quality tap water) will spring for bottled stuff whose quality and provenance is suspect. Anyway this Vitamin Water just hits the spot for me. I’d drink more if they lowered the price just a tad.