Oh, on a related note, anyone tried that Vitamin Energy drink? I like the citrus flavor, but coffee is cheaper, and I consume caffeine like it’s an addictive substance 
I love Vitamin Water and was drinking it since before it was cool. I realize it’s not as healthy as they’d like you to think, but it’s so much lighter and more thirst-quenching than soda or juice. Can’t get enough of the stuff.
Is it a new thing where you live? I drank a bottle a day when I first moved to NYC six years ago. After a while I noticed I had swelled to gigantic proportions, and took a peek at the nutrition label. :eek:
Now I just have it as a oh-god-I-will-never-drink-again hangover cure or when I’m REALLY thirsty. I figure I can get away with a bottle once or twice a month.
I haven’t tried it, I don’t have any need for water with calories. But I sure do love their commercials.
*“The shuttlecock is lodged in his leg!!!” *
I drink (filtered) tap water and take a couple vitamin pills. I personally have no desire to waste money on any bottled water, be it “vitamin” or not. I think bottled water is one of the biggest, yet most successful, scams ever to hit the marketplace. (And yes, I’ve tried it.)
Amen to that. Except I drink unfiltered tap water and eat food instead of wasting my money on vitamin pills.
And apart from the monetary cost, bottled water is a total environmental disaster… billions of non-biodegradable plastic bottles being filled with water and flown, shipped and trucked around the world, only a tiny percentage of them ever recycled and most of them wind up in landfill or littering the land and seas.
So wait, they shouldn’t call it “water” because it tastes like… water? 
I understand that there’s little conclusive evidence that vitamins work, but I get them cheap, and as long as they aren’t harmful, I figure, “Why not?” I filter tap water because I don’t like the taste of chlorine. I also eat food, now that I’ve given up on Styrofoam.
And don’t let those pretty labels fool you. Bottled water doesn’t come from some pristine stream way up in the mountains. It’s just tap water, filtered. At about ten times the price if you’d filtered it yourself.
I’ve never tried it, no interest. Rather take a multivitamin, a lot cheaper. And when I’m hungover my cure is Riptide Rush Gatorade/water.
I can’t stand plain water so I do the “on the go” Crystal Light combined with cooler water at work. I don’t see a whole lot of sugar-free vitamin waters? If any?
Actually, this is one area where it’s a little different in the UK. Here, the vast majority of bottled water is actually “natural mineral water”, which means it has to come from an approved natural spring. Sure, you can just buy “bottled water” which is treated municipal water, but it’s not a big market.
I can slightly more see the point in buying stuff like Volvic, Evian or Highland Spring, because it is actually natural spring water. But the tap water in my area is pretty good, anyway, and the only time I buy bottled water is if I want sparkling water for a party or something.
I happen to have here at my side, a part bottle of Fruit2O Hydration, nutrient enhanced water beverage (according to the label). This particular permutation is enhanced with electrolytes and vitamin B complex. I’m drinking it because it’s the only flavored water I’ve found that I like the taste of (it’s strawberry tangerine), and it was on sale. Zero calories, zero carbs.
However, when the bottles are empty, I refill them with tap water and use one of those little packets of Sugar Free Kool Aid To Go, to make a handy beverage to keep on my night stand for middle of the night sipping.
I don’t care for Vitamin Water (too sweet, artificial colors, more calories, etc.), but I love Propel. Only 30 calories for a 24oz. bottle Little higher sodium than I’d like (100 mg), but I’ll drink several bottles a day, keeping my hydrated and lowering my hunger throughout the day. Yum (especially Black Cherry, which I can only seem to find at gas stations for some reason).
Nope; I’m an adult who doesn’t need drinkable candy to stay hydrated.
I’ve heard this, but never had to test it. I like the fruit punch flavor alright, but it’s nothing special. I’ll have some if someone offers me some, but I’m unlikely to buy it on my own.
My thoughts exactly! My multivitamin works just fine. And if I’m going to drink any of those types of drinks it’s going to be a gatorade. But I definitely drink them in moderation as well and mostly after a hard workout.
And I must admit that I’m also a bottled water drinker from time to time. When I’m at my house I only drink tap or filtered water but when I’m on the go I’ll buy a bottle.
Yeah, I’m not sure what types of water you guys are drinking, but the Fruit 2 O that I drink has no calories, carbs, or sugars. I like the energy one because it gives me a dose of caffeine without me having to drink soda. So I can skip the headache, and not put on 20lbs.