Bottled water without fluoride

cloudySky

What brand could you recommend that is pure spring water without any additives or fluoride?
Here if found out that Clare Spring is OK. But have you seen it in Dublin area?

Transform

all bottled 'spring water' would have no added fluoride in it e.g. volvic, vittel etc

spring water is a protected term so best to look out for that

Big_G

You will not find any water on this planet apart from maybe lab quality distilled without trace amounts of fluoride.
EDIT: Just read the link. Wow. That girl really doesn't science.

btkm8unsl0w5r4

Fluoride is naturally occurring in rocks and mineral/spring water has a certain amount dissolved in it. It was this natural fluoridation that lead to the discovery of its beneficial properties when it is in optimal concentrations. A chap can Trendly Dean did the major research.

Most bottled water will have some fluoride in it. Often more than the optimally fluoridated levels in drinking water.

As Big_G says only distilled water would be fluoride free, deionised water still has some. I would read around a bit more, there is a lot of quackery, scientific nonsense and scare mongering about fluoride in water. Remember water is a chlorinated, chlorine is very similar to fluoride (same column on the periodic table) but nobody give out about it, except when its not there.

jma

As far as I know, Evian and Volvic are two brands that have low concentrations of fluoride in their bottled water. They also have low sodium levels, which is especially important if given to infants.

Dermighty

I've been looking at sodium levels a lot olately, simply because I recently started seasoning with salt (something I didn't do before this year) and I find I actually like salt now (sea salt). Some of the bottled waters like Nestle or Danone brands have double the sodium of others.

Is there any point in avoiding these brands with elevated levels of sodium?

I usually get 4 to 6 litres of water a day, sometimes more and most of it is from bottled water (tap water doesn't taste great here).

jma

Dermighty wrote: »

I've been looking at sodium levels a lot olately, simply because I recently started seasoning with salt (something I didn't do before this year) and I find I actually like salt now (sea salt). Some of the bottled waters like Nestle or Danone brands have double the sodium of others.

Is there any point in avoiding these brands with elevated levels of sodium?

I usually get 4 to 6 litres of water a day, sometimes more and most of it is from bottled water (tap water doesn't taste great here).

It depends on your overall salt intake, I think. A high-sodium diet has been linked to cardiovascular diseases. Modest reductions in salt intake are said to have a significant impact on average blood pressure.

http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/NutritionCenter/HealthyDietGoals/Sodium-Salt-or-Sodium-Chloride_UCM_303290_Article.jsp

http://www.fsai.ie/science_and_health/salt_and_health/the_science_of_salt_and_health.html