I love to drink water and since I have been pregnant with my second I add lemon or cucumber to it. A friend told me to try Vitamin Water for different flavors. Not sure about it, are they safe and which ones if so?
I prefer to add lemon, orange, etc to my own water vs the Vitamin water.
I don't know how safe they are, some flavors are good but like another poster said... adult Kool-Aid for the most part.
Hi there,
Keep drinking water, plain water with a little bit of flavour from natural resources. Vitamin water is just another way to sell stuff.
Vitamin water has no vitamins, they're chemically synthesized vitamins and sugar of course with a different name.
Take care,
A. :)
Vitamin water is glorified Kool-aid. Don't waste your money.
They taste like liquid Jell-O in my personal opinion. I would keep doing what you're doing by adding fruits to your water.
I like cucumber, lemon, lime, strawberry, raspberry in water.
Vitamin water is not worth it, and you'd be adding artificial colors, flavors and sweeteners to your diet. You don't need that! Stick with lemon or cucumber... or add some essential oils if you want a different flavor.
NO! They are a rip off!! Vitamins do not work in isolation from each other or in small combinations! It's a HUGE marketing gimmick and absolutely not a good idea. Moreover, they have dyes in them - how is that good when you are pregnant? Vitamin imbalances (and mineral imbalances) are the causes of many health issues - we play "kitchen chemist" and start throwing things into our bodies from the health food store or the supermarket because they have the words "vitamin" or "mineral" or "immune system" in their titles or advertising.
In addition, that plastic bottle with the water or sports drink in it was made with harmful chemicals and transported via truck, using fossil fuels and being exposed to high temperatures and temp extremes. That causes some chemical breakdown of the bottle components.
Aside from the money you wasted buying it, you wasted a lot of fossil fuels in the transport from water source (usually another city's municipal water supply) to the plant, through manufacture, across interstate highways to distribution centers and then to your supermarket. Not sure how that helps anyone except the company that made it. Dasani, for example, is Atlanta tap water (where the Coca Cola plant is) that is shipped to 49 other states. Makes no sense.
Please note that there are no clinical trials and no government patents on vitamin waters or even most sports drinks. Zero.
Stick with tap water and lemon or cucumber, or just drink the water! Tap water is subjected to much more testing and regulation than even "natural" and "spring" waters.
Don't bother with the Vitamin Waters or any other stuff like that. The best thing you can do is hydrate with nice fresh water that has nothing else in it. If you are eating well and taking pre-natal vitamins, you don't need all this excess stuff that these waters have in them. You don't need the sugar, salt, or any added electrolytes or excess vitamin doses. You are doing the right thing by sipping your water with a wedge of lemon, lime, or cucumber in it. Any fresh fruit wedge added to your water bottle would be great. Give it a try!
Since you are pregnant, you are probably taking Pre-Natal vitamins. Per your OB/GYN.
And if you are taking pre-natals, there is no need to even drink so called "vitamin" water.
And you should ask your Doctor about it.
Having "different flavors" of water, does not mean, drinking "vitamin water." Just make your water in different flavors. Just by adding, slices of lemon or cucumber to it like you are doing now.
Or adding sliced fruit to it, yourself.
Easy.
You can use sliced strawberries, oranges, mint sprigs, pineapple, sliced tangerines, etc.
Oh and by the way, some "vitamin waters" contain caffeine. Which my Husband and 10 year old daughter, told me. They read the bottle of one of those so called "vitamin" waters.
And "vitamin water" is not vitamins.
And it is not necessarily healthy.
Would you consider drinking watered down acid? If you would not, then I wouldn't recommend drinking the Vitamin Water. When you are pregnant your body needs all the vitamin and minerals it can get. Therefore, your teeth can naturally take a beating. The dentist told me that the acidity content in Gatorade, sports drinks and Vitamin Water is so high that you'd be better off drinking a can of soda or coffee. So, don't do it! Stick with what you are doing and if you really need something with more flavor start adding more real fruit to your water, limes, oranges, even some mint oil/flavoring. It can be delicious!
