These are some bottled still spring water and or still mineral water.
Fuji, Highland Spring, Volvic, Co-op,VOSS...
| Brands Unit: mg/L |
Fuji
|
Highland Spring
|
Volvic (Danone
Waters) |
Co-op
Fairbourne
Springs | VOSS (a USA company but majority of control : a PRC Chinese company Reignwood Group ) | |
| Description | Artesian water. UV treated drinking water | Still Spring water | Natural Mineral Water (filtered by volcanic rocks) | Still natural mineral water | artesian water (still) | |
| Source | Yaqara, Viti Levu | Ochil Hills | Clairvic Spring | Fairbourne Springs, Churchstoke, Montgomery, Powys | Iveland | |
| Country | Fuji Islands | UK - Scotland | France | UK - Wales | Norway (not in VOSS) | |
| bottle | plastic | plastic | plastic | plastic | glass | |
| volume | 1 Litre | 1.5 Litre | 1.5 Litre | 2 Litre | 800 ml | |
| pH at source | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.0 | 7.8 | 5.5 | |
| Bicarbonates | 153.0 | 150.0 | 74.0 | 137.6 | <20.0 | |
| Calcium | 18.0 | 40.5 | 12.0 | 46.2 | 5.0 | |
| Chloride* | 9.0 | no data | 15.0 | 15.8 | 12.0 | |
| Fluoride* | no data | no data | no data | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
| Magnesium | 15.0 | 10.1 | 8.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | |
| Nitrates | 1.0 | 3.1 | 7.3 | 6.3 |
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| |
| Nitrites* | no data | no data | no data | no data | - | |
| Potassium | 5.0 | 0.7 | 6.0 | 0.8 | - | |
| Sodium | 18.0 | 5.6 | 12.0 | 12.1 | 6.0 | |
| Sulphate | 1.0 | 5.3 | 9.0 | 23.4 | 5.0 | |
| Other:Silica | 93.0 |
no data
| 32.0 | no data | - | |
| Other * | not listed |
not listed
| not listed | not listed | *not listed | |
| Dry Residue at 180 degree C | 222.0 |
170.0
| 130.0 | 195.0 | 44.0 | |
note taken | 2017.06 | 2017.08 | 2017.08 | 2017.08 | 2017.08 |
(officially version of released info as on the food labels in packaging,
except VOSS, which is from their official website.
Different from data printed on bottle & in Wikipedia.
Data on bottle is different & fewer. Truth??? )
Their water quality report full version listed more,
including 0.037 mg/L Manganese, 3.381mg/L ±1.004 Radium 226/228 (combined),
NOTE 1:
There are non-sparkling still water sold in glass bottles.
Eg. :
Acqua Pana, Evian, Harrogate, Hildon,
Highland Spring, Perrier, San Pellegrino, VOSS, Waitrose, etc.
* NOTE 2:
last dacade there was a specialist website that someone took bottle waters to do lab test. They found that actual chemicals are usually not necessarily fully listed in packaging. Actual chemicals and Chemicals at source listed in packaging can be different.
Somehow that website was shut down.
NOTE 3:
plastic bottle: Store in odor free environment,
and away from direct sunlight. Once opened, keep chilled and used withing 7 days(or so).
I take that as the plastic has chemicals which can migrate into the water under circumstances. And, for smaller bottles, I read elsewhere that they can be easily become a pedri dish within 24 hours aka brew bacteria once you start drinking from it in contact to your mouth.
WHY I make this?
I started noticing water about 20 years ago.
I used to drink in office & at home evaporated water
which was popular and said to be very pure.
So I notice odor +/ odd taste
if I drink tap water.
Then there are people criticize not good to drink water too pure!!
Anyway, in Summer we drink more water.
If we do not guard well,
it is down to ruin our kidneys & body,
overloaded with unwanted chemicals.
WHY tap water is not good?
They typically have hundreds of chemicals
ranging from heavy metals, pesticides, herbicdes, etc,
and anything people put in drainage ,
that include medicine & drugs, etc.
Not to mention all kinds of
hair dye chemicals,
floor polish chemicals,
drainage caustic acid,
car wash chemicals, etc.
Even just basic lists
in websites of some
relatively open water companies
can be scary enough.
Let alone chemicals that
they are not able to filter //
not willing to //
can't afford to test //
dare not to test //
do not release to let people know.
