<p>If the fruit smells good (mango, peaches, passionfruit especially), the smell will trick the brain into thinking that the water is sweeter than it is. If you add some carbonation - even better. That’s why those unsweetened flavored sodas taste good. :)</p>
<p>@BunsenBurner I tried your trick and the passion fruit was a little bitter. I used peaches and it was fairly sweet. For the mango, which one should I use? The stringy one or the hard one?</p>
<p>You can buy infused water pitchers which filter the fruit and keep the water from getting “pulpy.” They almost look like Brita pitchers. Usually $15-20. I’ll be investing soon 
You can also google recipes for infused water with different combinations of fruits and herbs!</p>
<p>^^^^ TJMAXX has both infuser pitchers and infuser water bottles . We have a collection. :)</p>
<p>I really like sparkling water with a little pomegranate juice, very tasty and refreshing- it helped me break the soda habit I had several years ago. Also, I make iced tea and add a little peach juice that I get at TJoe’s, very nice in the summer.</p>
<p>No. It is a chemical concoction. Get some organic fruit infused water. Taste, no calories, and no bad stuff that will kill you. </p>
<p>Idk if this is a stupid question, but is drinking water mixed with a powder the same thing as drinking a bottle of water? Do you get the same benefit?</p>
<p>You went to Vanderbilt, AnnieBeats? Come on. It’s a freakin’ bottle of water. You either mix it with powder, or you don’t. It’ll still hydrate you.</p>
<p>@Pizzagirl Heyyy, we all have our moments! I was just making sure. I wasn’t talking about hydration. I was talking about the cleansing properties of water. I just wanted to know if there was a possibility that the chemicals from the drink would interact with the water and make it lose it’s purity.</p>
<p>Hey, Annie, as long as the powder that you add to your water is not sodium hydride, your water is going to be fine. :)</p>
<p><a href=“NaH + H2O Sodium Hydride and water נתרן הידריד במים - YouTube”>NaH + H2O Sodium Hydride and water נתרן הידריד במים - YouTube;
<p>And definitely skip phenolphthalein. :D</p>
<p>JK. </p>
<p>Back in the day, I didn’t like water (I love it now if it is super cold) and a Weight Watchers instructor suggested I try putting a drop or two of peppermint extract into my water. I loved that! When I was pregnant, I would fill a glass with crushed ice and pour some cranberry juice in. I probably had like 1/4 c. cranberry juice but it would kind of freeze into the ice and it was kind of like a slurpee. </p>
<p>You know, if you squeeze lemon juice and add sugar to the water, you’ve added chemicals just as much as if you add Crystal Light. Difference is, these chemicals have “friendly” names so people who flunked science class think it’s different. </p>
<p>When I was trying to wean the kids off juice (and the sugar), I would gradually add water to their juice until it was essentially water. So you can pick your favorite juice and start diluting. Both now drink water (they still like juice). </p>
<p>Cleansing properties of water?
If you add sugar & lemon to water, isn’t it now lemonade?</p>
<p>Yes, of course. My point is, you still added “chemicals” to your water just as if you had poured in Crystal LIght powder. They’re just chemicals that have names that sound pleasant, that’s all.</p>
<p>For example, lemon juice has a lot of citric acid. The chemical formula for that would be C6H8O7 (sorry I don’t know how to do the subscripts). </p>
<p>A source I found said that the chemical makeup of lemon juice includes such things as - acetate, glycolate, butyrate, oxalate, malonate, succinate, fumarate, glyoxylate, malate, tartarate, cis-aconitate and citrate. If I said that was the ingredient line on Crystal LIght, everyone would go crazy about how unnatural and chemical that all seems and how they would NEVER ingest such things willingly, but if it comes in a lemon, somehow people feel differently about it. It’s stupid. The body doesn’t know the difference between chemicals with pretty names and chemicals with yucky names.</p>
<p>So, I guess all chemicals are the same, in your opinion, Pizzagirl? I disagree. I will take the chemicals in tea, water, and lemons (real ones) over Crystal Light, thank you. If that means I’m stupid, and flunked science, then so be it.</p>
<p>^^^Exactly. Completely agreed. Not all chemicals are the same.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t go near Crystal Light or any other products of that type.</p>
<p>If by “healthy,” you mean that it is low in calories, well, sure. But there’s a lot more to health than that. Stevia is a non-nutritive sweetener, and non-nutritive means just that, it doesn’t contain any nutrition. Personally, I wouldn’t eat or drink anything with a low-calorie sweetener in it, especially while pregnant. Your diet should be as natural as possible and everything you put in your mouth should contain something nutritious both for you and the baby. I just mixed some pear nectar or pureed watermelon with water to stay hydrated, because I couldn’t drink plain water when I was pregnant,</p>
<p>“So, I guess all chemicals are the same, in your opinion, Pizzagirl?”</p>
<p>Huh? Where did I say or imply that? I just said they are all chemicals. Some come from plants and some come from a factory. Whether any given chemical is good or bad for the body is testable / provable. </p>
<p>Guess I misinterpreted post #51. And #54. My bad. Post #58 is more clear. Thank you.</p>