![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps when they said fulvic minerals, what they meant was fulvic acid – which is a thing, or possibly several things – in a the presence of oh, say, some bicarbonate (*cough* 2 ingredients *cough*). It’s not looking good for blk water ( £47.99 for a case of 24 bottles) at this point. But hang on. ![]() Speaking of ingredients, what about those so-called fulvic minerals? Maybe they’re the source of those all-important electrolytes (but not sodium)? And maybe they’re magically tasteless, too?Īnd perhaps, like other magical objects and substances, they don’t actually exist – as geologist told me on Twitter when I asked. This is apparently not the case with blk water which, to repeat myself, contains “only 2 ingredients”.Īnd, according to the blk website the drink contains “0 mg of sodium per 500ml” so… yeah. Yes, there are sports drinks that are specifically designed to help with this, but they taste of salt and sugar and/or flavourings which have been added in a desperate attempt to cover up the salty taste. If, say, you are running marathons in the desert, the advice is actually to keep a careful eye on your water intake because drinking too much water can dangerously lower your sodium levels. Most spring waters do contain some, if not all, of these, in greater or smaller amounts, but it’s not going to be enough to effectively “replenish” any of them. If you run marathons in deserts, or get struck down with a nasty case of food poisoning, or have some kind of serious health condition (you’d know about it) you might need to think about electrolytes, but otherwise most of us get what we need from the food and drink we consume normally every day.īesides which, didn’t they say “only 2 ingredients”? The most common electrolytes in the body are sodium, potassium, magnesium, chloride, hydrogen phosphate and hydrogen carbonate. But because of that our bodies are quite good at regulating them, most of the time. Your muscles and neurons rely on electrical activity, so they are quite important. They’re ionic species, which means they can conduct electricity. Honestly, none of that alkaline “goodness” makes it past your pyloric sphincter.įinally, blk water apparently “replenishes electrolytes”. And bear in mind that a few minutes after you drink any kind of alkaline water it mixes with stomach acid which has a pH of around 2. Absolutely nothing you drink, or eat, does anything to the pH in any part of your body except, possibly, your urine – where you might see a small difference under some circumstances (but even if you do it doesn’t tell you anything significant about the impact of your diet on your long-term health). Yes, well, I think I’ve covered that before. It claims to “balance pH levels” and help “to regulate our highly acidic diets”. (Hang on, I hear you say, if it’s minerals, plural, surely that’s already more than two ingredients? Oh, but that’s only the start. Stay with me.) The suppliers claim it contains “no nasties” and “only 2 ingredients”, namely spring water and “Fulvic Minerals” (sic). It also comes with a number of interesting claims. Obviously it’s a great marketing gimmick. It raises many questions, doesn’t it? Let’s start with why. Only blacker, and not fizzy, or sweet, or with any discernable flavour other than water. Not just black because the bottle’s black, black because the liquid inside it is… black.Ī bit like… cola. It’s water (well, so they say), but it’s black. Yes, this mysterious product turned up in my feed a few weeks ago. They don’t clutter up the house, and who doesn’t enjoy a nice box of luxury biscuits, or chocolates, or a bottle of champagne, or spirts, or a case of blk water. Consumables are often a safe fallback position. Christmas is almost here! Are you ready yet? Are you fed up with people asking if you’re ready yet? Have you worked out what to buy for Great-uncle Nigel, who says he neither needs nor wants anything? Always a tricky scenario, that. ![]()
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