There are lots like Vitamin water, alkaline, and coconut water. And overpriced salt packets like Nuun and LMNT.

There's also no shortage of expensive water bottles being sold, and smart water bottles that track your drinking frequencies and flavor pods sold via subscription.

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andy99 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

To go off topic a bit further, I recently went into Walgreens to buy some bottled water, and other than Evian, it was all advertised as alkaline. Is that just a trend, was it already alkaline and now that’s just in fashion? Personally I see it and worry I’ll get an upset stomach if it start messing with my pH.

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throwforfeds 3 days ago | parent [-]

Water that's coming out of your tap is generally aiming for neutral (~7 ph). The alkaline waters in the store are using minerals to elevate it into probably the 9s.

Like many hippie health trends that then go mainstream, a lot of it seems to filter in from Rastafarian traditions, where in the Ital diet they believe that alkaline water coming from the Blue Mountains in Jamaica (and other natural springs there which are naturally alkaline) help detoxify the acids in the body.

	▲	amluto 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Water that's coming out of your tap is generally aiming for neutral (~7 ph). Not really. In the US at least, there’s the “Lead And Copper Rule”, which effectively requires utilities to adjust water composition to make the water minimally corrosive to copper and to lead. This often involves delivering water at a pH higher than 7. (San Francisco, for example, has water pH near 9, although it seems to be on the high end compared to other systems.)

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rhinoceraptor 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I do really love LMNT, it's basically the only one I've tried that actually has a sizable dose of sodium, has no sugar, and tastes good.

	▲	theappsecguy 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, except it has an insane markup for what are some of the cheapest ingredients one could source. $50 for flavoured salt is pure insanity.