What are your favorite flavored water that is keto friendly? Preferably no carbonation.
Flavored Water
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#2
My supermarket sells a fairly inexpensive still spring water. And there is always distilled water—pure H2O, with no additives at all. In my area, we are fortunate that the tap water tastes pretty good, as well.
Myself, I find still water boring. I drink Seltzer, because the fizziness adds some interest to drinking. But my absolute favorite of the flavored waters is coffee.
sypherlev
#3
Blue Mio Sport in a bottle of water with an excessive amount of salt.
It’s the reason I’m not getting lightheaded anymore.
PrimalBrian
#4
Just a cautionary note here. Many sources say that regularly drinking distilled water is not recommended.
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#5
@PrimalBrian I would like to see some science to back up the assertions these sites make. I have seen the canard about distilled water’s being dangerous, but no one who asserts this has ever been able to refer to a randomized controlled trial in support of that notion. As far as I can tell, no such study has ever been done.
The only criticism that makes sense at all is that children will get cavities from not drinking fluoridated water. Of course they will, if you keep giving them sugar and refined grains! They’ll also get sick if you don’t keep up with their insulin shots once they develop diabetes! Fluoride, like insulin, is unnecessary for anyone eating a healthy (i.e., ketogenic) diet.
The rest of the issues I saw listed seem to be problems of diet that have nothing to do with water, and none of those issues are going to be troubling anyone who eats a well-formulated ketogenic diet.
With all due respect to Dr. Mercola and Mr. Armstrong, they are not people to whom I would turn for advice on metabolic health. (grumpy old man mode: off)
PrimalBrian
#6
Fair enough, @PaulL. Points well taken. And, although Mercola can be on point and off point, depending on the topic, I do agree that the headline is a little over-the-top. I just wanted to point out a contrary view that distilled water may - or may not - have some downsides. This is especially true since people here often (a) fast; and (b) suffer from mineral imbalances/deficiencies while keto-ing or fasting. So, the potential issues of someone who wants to fast and reads this thread and ends up on “distilled-water-only” fast led me to raise my hand. At least now people will read this thread and be able to have both sides to look into.
As for PubMed-based science, I’m not aware of any (but, candidly, haven’t looked hard), and all my Google-Machine pulled up is this:
So for whatever that’s worth (enough for me, IMO). 
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#7
Excellent point. My idea is that people will be getting enough minerals when they do eat, if they are eating keto, but that could well be overly optimistic on my part. Nice catch, and even if I think the concern unwarranted, that’s no reason to avoid mentioning it. 
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#9
I did a search online about the dangers of distilled water. Nothing but “experts think maybe.” So I went to the Web site of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and looked up distilled water. No references, exept to studies dissolving potential toxins in distilled water for testing in people and animals. So I looked up water/H2O/dihydrogen oxide in their chemical database. (One of the things I found out is that water is easily dissolved in water. Go figure. 
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The only dangers of water that I could find in that database were (a) explosions resulting from mixing with certain chemicals and (b) sodium loss from over-consuming water low in electrolytes. (Not news; Tim Noakes has been warning about this for several years, now—which is why his advice is to drink to thirst, not to some arbitrary target.)
The only study of the effects of distilled water per se that I could find was in the National Cancer Institute database, and it showed that distilled water can explode bladder cancer cells. It didn’t say whether this was in vitro or in vivo. If the latter, I call BS, because that would mean that the water that was drunk, dissolved into the blood through the stomach lining, circulated through the veins and arteries, and was filtered out by the kidneys somehow remembered that it had originally been distilled water once it reached the bladder. To quote Dr. Fung: “Are you kidding me?”
ava_ad0re
(Katie the Quiche Scoffing Stick Ninja )
#10
I use the Ketoaide recipe from this website, but the magnesium powder I use is mildly orange flavoured so it’s a very weak tasting orange drink which I actually really enjoy.
I use soda water for when I am fasting as a different drink as the bubbles help squash the hunger pangs.
Alecmcq
(Alec)
#11
I use this. Lots of loverly electrolytes. I use about twice as many as the maximum dose on the pack.
