But, drinking enough water to keep you feeling and looking your best can be a challenge if you just don't like the taste of plain water. Sparkling water is a more interesting alternative. Sweetened calorie-free flavors are even more attractive because they taste like diet soda. If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Zero-calorie flavored sparkling water is not a perfect solution because the artificial sweeteners they contain may do more harm than good.
There are many different names for sparkling water, including carbonated water, club soda, seltzer, soda water and mineral water. Mineral water is naturally carbonated, though it can also be flat. All other types get their effervescence from being infused with carbon dioxide. Club soda often has minerals added which gives it a subtly different flavor from plain sparkling water.
Here is where it all gets tangled up. At the same time, the alternative food movement starts to gain mass momentum, with Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman leading the charge. Not too much. Mostly plants. He really connected those two arguments. It is not only a question of health.
It is a question of morality. We could all fixate on fiber content instead — maybe we should! One might point out that real fruits also are made from chemicals. People have a general sense that there are problems in the food system. What could we have done? There is nothing wrong with me wanting the flavor in my seltzer to come from happy lemons. As a scholar and critic of diet culture, Sole-Smith is even more skeptical that the shift is a net positive.
We just add more layers of neurosis. Diet culture is about more than achieving certain bodily ideals; it is, as Michelle Allison argues at the Atlantic , about escaping death. In this way, it always fails. It was a bogus study, it turned out.
That is the perpetual risk of being currently alive. In the parable of status seltzers, LaCroix is the processed past. Spindrift is the newly pastoral future. LaCroix gets its flavor from some proprietary cocktail of chemicals, some of which may or may not be synthetic. Spindrift gets its flavor from a specified number of blackberries, or strawberries, or limes.
The real advantage of real-fruit Spindrift is that it tastes good. Have you had fruit? That we know for sure. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all.
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Spindrift is a little different from other seltzers — does it matter? Sarah Lawrence for Vox. How we stopped counting calories and learned to love Spindrift This popular seltzer has a few calories.
Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. The lower the pH, the more acidic the following beverages are:. The American Dental Association warns against drinking too many acidic drinks, as acids can wear away the hard outer layer of enamel that protects your teeth from decaying.
And since seltzer is slightly acidic, there are some concerns that drinking it can erode your teeth. However, more research is needed, and early evidence shows that plain seltzer has a similar effect on your teeth to water. Drinking flavored seltzer can potentially pose a bigger risk to your teeth, as some natural flavors like lemon and lime contain citric acid , a highly acidic chemical found in citrus fruits. There is some evidence that citric acid can erode tooth enamel over time, which could lead to cavities and decay.
Many popular seltzer brands like La Croix, Perrier, and Polar all list natural flavors in their ingredients. Overall, seltzer is generally considered to be much healthier than other carbonated beverages like soda that are more acidic and higher in sugar content.
Most of the mainstream seltzer brands don't add any sugar to their flavored drinks, but instead, add flavors that are calorie-free or sugar alcohols like erythritol that aren't harmful to teeth. Even brands that add sugar use very small amounts — for example, Bai's flavored drinks contain 1g of sugar , compared with 39g in a can of Coke. Still, it is important not to completely replace drinking water with seltzer, because tap water has added fluoride that helps protect your teeth, says Melissa Majumdar, MS, RD , a registered dietitian and bariatric coordinator at Emory University Hospital.
While there is a possibility that flavored seltzer may negatively affect your dental health, there are also many benefits to drinking seltzer. Many of us have trouble drinking enough water throughout the day, which can lead to dehydration, Majumdar says. Dehydration has many negative health effects, including making you feel more tired and less able to focus. In fact, Majumdar says that seltzer is just as hydrating as water, so if drinking water with bubbles helps you drink more, it's a benefit to your health.
A small study published in in the Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology, of 19 healthy young women, found that those who drank ml about eight ounces or one cup of seltzer on an empty stomach felt significantly more full than those who drank ml of water or nothing at all. This could be because the carbon dioxide bubbles contribute to the feeling of fullness.
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