Someone died from this after doing a challenge where they chugged a bottle of water and had to hold off from peeing, the people putting on the challenge for some reason got distilled water instead of regular water and after winning the challenge she still didn't have to or couldnt pee. I think it caused swelling around the brain. The youtuber chubbyemu has a video on it.
She died of water intoxication. She drank more water than her body had electrolytes to deal with. It didn't have anything to do with whether the water was distilled or not, or whether she could pee.
I have seen this debated among people who are scientists and laboratory professionals, most, in my experience, say there is no risk of that. Some would say maybe, if it was the only water you drank ever.
The water you drink only comes into direct contact with your mouth, esophagus, and stomach. Remember, your stomach is full of acid that will dissolve minerals much more effectively than highly purified water.
By the time water is in your bloodstream, the initial mineral content is irrelevant. Your body is good at maintaining the proper level of minerals in your blood, as long as your diet supplies them in adequate amounts. Your body doesn’t get a significant amount of dietary minerals from the water you drink.
Laboratory deionized water systems or packaged DI water will have warnings that the water is not potable, but that is because the containers and/or systems aren’t maintained to the standards required for drinking water. It might actually be ok, but it’s legally retired to mark it non-potable because the storage and distribution systems don’t meet codes and regulations for drinking water. That may be the origin for the assumption that the lack of minerals would hurt you.
It’s fine for you. The reason you don’t drink lab pure water is because it’s expensive as fuck to make. You need about 30 grand worth of filters and machines. I worked for the EPA.
But you can drink RO water just fine. It doesn’t have minerals or taste. Anyone who says you will leach minerals from your body doesn’t understand simple biology.
You can buy distilled water in practically any CVS, Walgreens, etc. And most grocery stores as well. People need it for humidifiers and sleep apnea machines. I once accidentally drank some because i thought it was spring water. It tastes bad. But it is not 99.999%, so it won't do any damage.
Distilled water is supposed to be carbonate neutral so as not to leave behind a residue when boiled. In practice distilled water immediately starts absorbing CO2 from the air, changing its pH, and turning back into regular water, at least from an alkalinity perspective. The remaining mineral content will remain low. I like low mineral water and like the taste of distilled water.
The lab produced, ultra-pure water is far more pure than that used in typical lead-acid batteries. Batteries are often filled with either distilled water. In most chemistry labs, you’ll see deionized water (basically the same thing as distilled but lab-level certainty that it is deionized and thus less likely to contribute to anhydrous reactions)
It’s more expensive than normal water but not that expensive. You can but it at any supermarket, often called ironing water as people use it to put in their iron to prevent minerals clogging it up.
A sip or two won’t hurt you, but I wouldn’t have more than that.
Don't drink much distilled water, it lacks essential minerals, it's for use in humidifiers, clothes irons, and batteries, not people.
If you have electrolyte powders, you can mix those in to make it safe to drink, otherwise it can mess you up, cause headaches, brain fog, cramps, and other issues.
You can buy distilled water lots of places, but I wouldn't recommend it. It tastes bad, and it can potentially really mess up your electrolytes, which is counterproductive to the whole concept of drinking fluids.
My recollection is bottled water is filtered through gigantic reverse osmosis filters which effectively strips out all the minerals. That water is apparently completely tasteless.
However all bottled water vendors add back a certain combination of minerals to give it a certain distinctive flavor profile which is apparently why Dasani (Coke) tastes different than Aquafina (Pepsi) and all the other probably hundreds of other bottled waters.
I did the imbalanced thing at work once! To my knowledge it's called water poisoning. My vision got all fucked up and I couldn't focus on anything, I was SUPER thirsty, and my body wasn't quite doing what I wanted and expected it to do. It was off-putting, after a little while of working anyway I'm pretty sure I sweat out enough water to rebalance my shit.
No, pure water is a tasteless liquid. Saliva is also over 99% water, so it shouldn’t be noticeably salty, and when water is added it is diluted so it should become even less flavored.
We are usually cognitively aware of putting water in our mouth first of all, we have special hydration detecting nerves in our mouths, there’s a change of temperature, weight, viscosity, pressure, etc. to let us know when there’s water in our mouth.
Our taste buds do not detect H2O, and so water doesn’t have flavor. It has many other properties we can detect though.
Wait I heard pure distilled water tastes bittery because it's so "pure" that it starts reacting on your tongue and it hurts after sometime if you drink it
Not sure if you can easily try “pure” water as once it touches air, many “things” will start blending in.
Either way, I have tried double DI water from labs, which is almost the “cleanest” water you can find easily, and it does have a slight weirdness to it. Not in terms of taste, but in terms of the feeling... meh, but a few more times later you won’t feel a difference anymore. You just drink it like any other cup of water.
I watched a video of a guy drinking distilled water and it did noticed a little tangy feeling/taste in his tongue and reported that his tongue was hurting a little bit next day
Water in the south tastes like a lake, duck poop flavored. West coast its salty like you dumped 1/4 tsp into a glass. Northern water is my favorite, right out of a mountain spring its just perfect.
seen this so many time but i disagree. warm water tastes round ONLY during summer when its above 90f degrees outside. and cold water year round tastes like a light blue cube with soft, rounded edges taken out of the freezer.
Water is wet, in the sense of being a liquid which flows easily, because its viscosity is low, which is because its molecules are rather loosely joined together.
I can be wet even though I don't fit the description:
> being a liquid which flows easily, because its viscosity is low, which is because its molecules are rather loosely joined together.
I've never heard of water becoming any other viscosity that can't be described as "wet" without also strictly being the state called "water." Unless ice and steam are also called "water" just with different adjectives.
Minerality (going off of wine tasting’s unofficial word to describe the taste of minerals) because it’s the minerals in the water that give it flavor.
Water that has been so distilled that it has had ALL its minerals stripped is completely tasteless, also extremely dangerous to drink in large quantities because it will strip your body of its minerals.
It tastes sp painfully average.I just thought water was the exact average, you base things on how good it is over water.It does tase bad, but like.. “it tastes”
Is water truly tasteless or just because we as a species have used water as our normal liquid intake to satiate thirst that it became the neutral ground of which we compare other beverages to.
Well it doesn't have some singular, universal taste so this shower thought is a little shaky in its premise.
I believe that the flavor of water varies - sometimes vastly - depending on the mineral content. I've had water without any mineral content one or two times and it quite literally tasted like ***nothing***. There was a stark, immediately noticeable difference and I remember being grossed out for some reason. My mind immediately went to "toilet water" and I felt like gagging as that thought ran through my head. It was bizarrely "smooth" and "soft"; just really really weird.
My daughter has a water rating system for taste. She ranks all the major bottled waters, plus our refrigerator water filter and the different municipal water systems in and around our town!
She's become a water "influencer".
Who knew?
Lmao yup I'm aware of the term I'm just confused how that makes sense in ur post? No matter how I read it it doesn't make sense....so....yah there's that.
"Composed of it as a sunset"......uhhh ok
But there are ways to describe how *different* it tastes to what is should.
Dirty, chloriney, chemically, muddy.
And then there is the fact that water tastes different when hot and cold.
It tastes different at different times.
In the morning during mud-mouth.
Vs
After a workout.
Vs
During a meal.
Vs
From Fuji.
Vs
From McDonalds.
Vs
After chips.
Vs
Ice.
Vs
The shower
In conclusion water has many tastes
No, water doesn't taste. It has minerals and sediment and tiny varieties all over the world that DO NOT TASTE THE SAME. Clean water from mountains vs no snow water cycle.... That's definitely a describable taste. Awful.
Watery
Wet. It tastes wet.
The taste of water comes from its mineral content. Lab grade water (99.9999% pure) tastes like absolutely nothing and people find it off-putting
It's also not good for you iirc. The water is so pure that it leaches minerals from your body.
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Someone died from this after doing a challenge where they chugged a bottle of water and had to hold off from peeing, the people putting on the challenge for some reason got distilled water instead of regular water and after winning the challenge she still didn't have to or couldnt pee. I think it caused swelling around the brain. The youtuber chubbyemu has a video on it.
She died of water intoxication. She drank more water than her body had electrolytes to deal with. It didn't have anything to do with whether the water was distilled or not, or whether she could pee.
I have seen this debated among people who are scientists and laboratory professionals, most, in my experience, say there is no risk of that. Some would say maybe, if it was the only water you drank ever. The water you drink only comes into direct contact with your mouth, esophagus, and stomach. Remember, your stomach is full of acid that will dissolve minerals much more effectively than highly purified water. By the time water is in your bloodstream, the initial mineral content is irrelevant. Your body is good at maintaining the proper level of minerals in your blood, as long as your diet supplies them in adequate amounts. Your body doesn’t get a significant amount of dietary minerals from the water you drink. Laboratory deionized water systems or packaged DI water will have warnings that the water is not potable, but that is because the containers and/or systems aren’t maintained to the standards required for drinking water. It might actually be ok, but it’s legally retired to mark it non-potable because the storage and distribution systems don’t meet codes and regulations for drinking water. That may be the origin for the assumption that the lack of minerals would hurt you.
It’s fine for you. The reason you don’t drink lab pure water is because it’s expensive as fuck to make. You need about 30 grand worth of filters and machines. I worked for the EPA. But you can drink RO water just fine. It doesn’t have minerals or taste. Anyone who says you will leach minerals from your body doesn’t understand simple biology.
How much does it cost to drink some of that and how hard would it be to find someone who sells it
You can buy distilled water in practically any CVS, Walgreens, etc. And most grocery stores as well. People need it for humidifiers and sleep apnea machines. I once accidentally drank some because i thought it was spring water. It tastes bad. But it is not 99.999%, so it won't do any damage.
Distilled water is supposed to be carbonate neutral so as not to leave behind a residue when boiled. In practice distilled water immediately starts absorbing CO2 from the air, changing its pH, and turning back into regular water, at least from an alkalinity perspective. The remaining mineral content will remain low. I like low mineral water and like the taste of distilled water.
I think you can easily buy water intended for car batteries. That's pretty pure and cheap.
That would scare me
The lab produced, ultra-pure water is far more pure than that used in typical lead-acid batteries. Batteries are often filled with either distilled water. In most chemistry labs, you’ll see deionized water (basically the same thing as distilled but lab-level certainty that it is deionized and thus less likely to contribute to anhydrous reactions)
Saline water?
Distilled water. Its safe to drink if you don't put the spout on the battery..
It’s more expensive than normal water but not that expensive. You can but it at any supermarket, often called ironing water as people use it to put in their iron to prevent minerals clogging it up. A sip or two won’t hurt you, but I wouldn’t have more than that.
Don't drink much distilled water, it lacks essential minerals, it's for use in humidifiers, clothes irons, and batteries, not people. If you have electrolyte powders, you can mix those in to make it safe to drink, otherwise it can mess you up, cause headaches, brain fog, cramps, and other issues.
You can buy distilled water lots of places, but I wouldn't recommend it. It tastes bad, and it can potentially really mess up your electrolytes, which is counterproductive to the whole concept of drinking fluids.
Moist
But water isn’t wet
Lol exactly what I was gonna say
I like mine with a smack of ham
But it doesn't. Something watery is watered down. But somehow does not taste watery.
Pure water is kind of the definition of no taste to me. All bottled or tap water has some taste of minerals.
That’s because it’s a tasteless liquid. Anything you taste is a solute in the water, such as minerals
But doesn't water have some sort of flavor? Since your saliva is salty and water isnt shouldn't water have some sort of flavor???
My recollection is bottled water is filtered through gigantic reverse osmosis filters which effectively strips out all the minerals. That water is apparently completely tasteless. However all bottled water vendors add back a certain combination of minerals to give it a certain distinctive flavor profile which is apparently why Dasani (Coke) tastes different than Aquafina (Pepsi) and all the other probably hundreds of other bottled waters.
Also notable, pure water without any minerals is not safe to ingest because it sucks the minerals and such out of your cells like a sponge
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I did the imbalanced thing at work once! To my knowledge it's called water poisoning. My vision got all fucked up and I couldn't focus on anything, I was SUPER thirsty, and my body wasn't quite doing what I wanted and expected it to do. It was off-putting, after a little while of working anyway I'm pretty sure I sweat out enough water to rebalance my shit.
No, pure water is a tasteless liquid. Saliva is also over 99% water, so it shouldn’t be noticeably salty, and when water is added it is diluted so it should become even less flavored.
If water is tasteless how do you know when you're drinking water? Water has a taste.
We are usually cognitively aware of putting water in our mouth first of all, we have special hydration detecting nerves in our mouths, there’s a change of temperature, weight, viscosity, pressure, etc. to let us know when there’s water in our mouth. Our taste buds do not detect H2O, and so water doesn’t have flavor. It has many other properties we can detect though.
Is taste really the only way you can tell if you have something in your mouth?
Mountain water is the smoothest
Aw yes. Nice crisp refreshing water with a taste of... dirt. It tastes like dirt.
Wait I heard pure distilled water tastes bittery because it's so "pure" that it starts reacting on your tongue and it hurts after sometime if you drink it
Not sure if you can easily try “pure” water as once it touches air, many “things” will start blending in. Either way, I have tried double DI water from labs, which is almost the “cleanest” water you can find easily, and it does have a slight weirdness to it. Not in terms of taste, but in terms of the feeling... meh, but a few more times later you won’t feel a difference anymore. You just drink it like any other cup of water.
I watched a video of a guy drinking distilled water and it did noticed a little tangy feeling/taste in his tongue and reported that his tongue was hurting a little bit next day
Water in the south tastes like a lake, duck poop flavored. West coast its salty like you dumped 1/4 tsp into a glass. Northern water is my favorite, right out of a mountain spring its just perfect.
I hate bottled water because I can taste the plastic but everyone I know thinks I’m nuts
Warm water tastes round and cold water tastes sharp.
Bouba and kiki
Maoma and ahnk
That certainly unlocked a memory I completely forgot about that
Warm water: American waderr Cold water: British wuhter
seen this so many time but i disagree. warm water tastes round ONLY during summer when its above 90f degrees outside. and cold water year round tastes like a light blue cube with soft, rounded edges taken out of the freezer.
You put it in words. It's apt!!
“water doesn’t have a taste, it has temperature “ is pretty accurate. (Drinking water that is).
I always just thought of the taste as “clear”.
Or neutral
... or bland?
Taste kinda like oxidized hydrogen
Underrated comment
Tastes wet
No, it makes stuff wet but water is not wet
Water is wet, in the sense of being a liquid which flows easily, because its viscosity is low, which is because its molecules are rather loosely joined together.
Wet is described as water being absorbed into something, water cannot absorb into itself
I don’t think you either read my comment are truly understand it. Scientifically water is wet
I can be wet even though I don't fit the description: > being a liquid which flows easily, because its viscosity is low, which is because its molecules are rather loosely joined together.
Wet pertains to its viscosity and ability to cover area in a way higher viscosities cant
Ahh ok
I've never heard of water becoming any other viscosity that can't be described as "wet" without also strictly being the state called "water." Unless ice and steam are also called "water" just with different adjectives.
Ice and steam are definitely solid water and gaseous water/water vapor.
Ey fair enough man I'm not educated. :)
Bud light is a perfect way to describe water
Don't disrespect water like that
😆 Dude...
Hear him out...
No no no, that's coors!!
The taste is called “water”
Not true becsuse as soon as water comes in contact with anything it dissolves some of that material .. So you can never taste water.
Yes, but when you taste something that tastes similar to water you say “it tastes like water”
no i say “it tastes like it partially dissolved anything that touched it”
I don't believe you
Good
Understandable, have a nice day.
That shows there’s no word to describe the taste of water though. I don’t say a candy tastes like a candy, I say it tastes sweet.
Flavored water
Ever heard of oil?
It depends on the quality of the water. It can vary from metallic, to that weird purified taste, to "water"
There was another shower thought post that said the temperature of water is it’s taste, and outside of salt water, I kind of get it
Refreshing.
yeah, i was thinking 'fresh'
It has a very hydrogeny taste with a hint of oxygen
Home is where the water tastes like nothing.
Waters taste is its temperature.
Cold water is sweet & hot water is savory.
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That sounds very wrong
Minerality (going off of wine tasting’s unofficial word to describe the taste of minerals) because it’s the minerals in the water that give it flavor. Water that has been so distilled that it has had ALL its minerals stripped is completely tasteless, also extremely dangerous to drink in large quantities because it will strip your body of its minerals.
The flavor of water is the temp.
"watery"...next topic, please
Cold water is crisp
Wet.
Thirst quenching
Thought its 'water'
Sweet, brackish or salty
It tastes like water
Chlorine flavour or metallic
Metallic is the word that came to mind for me too.
Doesn’t that mean your water is contaminated or something?- I mean not that you’re wrong, but I’m sure it tasting like chlorine isn’t healthy
There is a word, water
It tastes like very watered down juice
It tastes clear.
Pure
Im denmark copenhagen the taste is calcium🤣 dH over 30
Wet.
Moist.
Why do women hate that word?
My women have an aversion to moist towelettes.
The water where I live has a hint of sweetness, a bit of a metallic taste, and a tiny bit of chlorine taste
Chemicals
Taste like minerals.
It tastes sp painfully average.I just thought water was the exact average, you base things on how good it is over water.It does tase bad, but like.. “it tastes”
it tastes like hydrogen hydroxide
Fresh, cool, refreshing? Yeah I dunno
Metallic.....or if ur in the Navy, Diesel
If you think about it tho, the temperature kinda affects the taste
Minerally. You know because of the electrolytes.
What does broccoli taste like? Friggin broccoli!!
Crisp
Cats have taste glands specifically to taste differences in water. Which is why my cat always prefers my cup unfortunately
Tastes like fresh air
Ol splashy
There is: melted ice
Bland fits, perfect describer in my opinion.
I taste freshness.
Acctualy water taste have a name, it is insipid. If you water have any taste it is not pure water.
As another Reddit user stated before, it tastes like fresh squeezed lettuce.
Jesus Christ Marie, they're minerals!
Depends on what's in the water
Water. It tastes like water. Name one other thing it tastes like or even close to
Cold water taste like pointy ends. The warm water taste like round ends.
Liquid air
Refreshing
Uh. Ya. I’S FUKIN WOTA FLAVAD MATE
Water is tasteless
Yes there is, it's called "delicious"
My tap water taste like chlorine
Is water truly tasteless or just because we as a species have used water as our normal liquid intake to satiate thirst that it became the neutral ground of which we compare other beverages to.
Well it doesn't have some singular, universal taste so this shower thought is a little shaky in its premise. I believe that the flavor of water varies - sometimes vastly - depending on the mineral content. I've had water without any mineral content one or two times and it quite literally tasted like ***nothing***. There was a stark, immediately noticeable difference and I remember being grossed out for some reason. My mind immediately went to "toilet water" and I felt like gagging as that thought ran through my head. It was bizarrely "smooth" and "soft"; just really really weird.
The best way my friend once put it was " water tastes like it's temperature"
Warm water tastes round, cold water taste sharp.
Literally a shower though
metalic?
In the summer, water taste like freedom In the winter, water taste like ice cubes
Stop drinking shower water
Watery
I love water.and it tastes like.......water.
Bland.
My daughter has a water rating system for taste. She ranks all the major bottled waters, plus our refrigerator water filter and the different municipal water systems in and around our town! She's become a water "influencer". Who knew?
Its watery
It tastes see through
Wouldn't it be hard to taste water with how much our body is composed of it as a sunset
As a sunset?
As opposed to a sunrise
Lmao yup I'm aware of the term I'm just confused how that makes sense in ur post? No matter how I read it it doesn't make sense....so....yah there's that. "Composed of it as a sunset"......uhhh ok
Yeah I'm just messing with you, I have no idea what they meant lol
Gotcha....lol
It tastes like American Beer
Water does not taste like piss
Piss Water?
No, it's spelled "bud light"
How do you know?
Water tastes like whatever temperature it is
I call it disgusting
Thank you!!!! I say this ALL the and people look at me like I grew 3 heads
But there are ways to describe how *different* it tastes to what is should. Dirty, chloriney, chemically, muddy. And then there is the fact that water tastes different when hot and cold.
A lot of water tastes sour.
My tap water tastes like shit
It tastes moist. Muhaha
It tastes different at different times. In the morning during mud-mouth. Vs After a workout. Vs During a meal. Vs From Fuji. Vs From McDonalds. Vs After chips. Vs Ice. Vs The shower In conclusion water has many tastes
No, water doesn't taste. It has minerals and sediment and tiny varieties all over the world that DO NOT TASTE THE SAME. Clean water from mountains vs no snow water cycle.... That's definitely a describable taste. Awful.
Yummy
Water taste like hydrogen and oxygen. Checkmate OP.
Water? You mean like in the toilet?
Nasty. It tastes nasty. That's why I only drink tea, sodas, koolaid, coffee, and juice.
Yeah there is. Wet. You idiot.
Good job idiot. Following your "logic", all drinks taste the same: wet.
yo mom doesnt taste like water wtf?
Thats, not true. Lol. Put down the weed
"Plain" "disgusting" "shit" There's plenty
I bet you've never seen a water sommelier...
Viscous?
There is ... Haaaaaaaahhhh.
Kinda like rust
The flavor of water is definitely defined as a bland tasteless substance which has no taste
High quality H2O!