Drink Natural Health Drinks, Not Vitamin Water

Last Updated on Friday, 16 September 2011 11:10 Written by Natural Health Team Friday, 16 September 2011 11:10

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Presuming vitamin water products are health drinks that enhance the benefits of drinking water is like assuming that colorful candy is ok for you because it’s fat free. To boost the benefits of drinking water, it is best to search online for natural health drinks that contain live enzymes, real whole food nutrients, and alkaline ingredients.

What do those bottles of candy-colored vitamin water really offer and are they health drinks? The big selling point for a bottle of kiwi-strawberry vitamin water advertises that it will somehow enhance “focus”. The first thing to focus on is that this colorful water is the color of pink cotton candy. Next, it is easy to see what is missing from the ingredients list for these health drinks, not one mention of kiwi or strawberry, only “natural flavor”. In fact, this botlle’s label states that it contains less than 1% fruit juice. Focusing even more clearly, it is quite clear that these vitamin water health drinks are really only distilled waters with artificial ingredients.

One shocking nutrition fact to take note of on the label of this enhanced vitamin water is that each bottle contains 2.5 servings, which is where the total amount of sugar in one bottle can be deceiving. The nutrition fact label reveals 13g of sugar, but that is the amount per serving, not per bottle. Multiply 13g times 2.5 servings and you’ve got a whopping 32.5 grams of sugar in each bottle, more than soft drinks. The first ingredient on this vitamin water label, after the de-mineralized water, is crystalline fructose, which might best be described as concentrated sugar, usually derived from cornstarch. That is what this highly processed pink drink tastes like, liquid cotton candy, only with less flavor and more of a chemical aftertaste. With just a few sips it is easier to clearly focus on how these health drinks do not enhance the benefits of drinking water.

Digging deeper, we find other inadequacies with the actual vitamins in these vitamin water health drinks. According to the label, each serving contains 10% of your daily requirements for Vitamins A, B3, B6, B12, and B5 plus an overly optimistic 40% of your daily allowance of Vitamin C. The inadequacy is that these vitamins are not from any whole foods similar to real strawberries or kiwis. Remember, those whole foods were missing from the ingredients. Therefore, the live enzymes necessary to help the body absorb the vitamins into the cells are not there. Nutrition facts reveal that whole foods like fruits and vegetables contain live enzymes, which act as catalysts for vitamins and minerals to work in the body. Without those whole food properties in health drinks, vitamins are not easily absorbed and are more than likely flushed right out of the body and into the toilet. So, it is clear that none of those vitamins in vitamin water are actually being used as fuel for the body.

This is why it is the intelligent consumer who takes the time to look past vitamin water sales gimmicks and celebrity endorsements, read carefully about ingredients, learn about health drinks with live enzymes, whole foods, and how the body absorbs nutrients. If you are serious about health and fitness and want something above and beyond a vitamin water gimmick, search the web. Look for nutrition facts online about whole foods and natural health drinks that absolutely will enhance the benefits of drinking water.

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