Food Theory: Is Expensive Water Actually WORTH It? (Taste Test)
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Does expensive water REALLY taste better, Loyal Theorist? Water is just water after all. Yet somehow Fuji, Voss, Evian, and others have convinced us that their water is superior to those such as Deer Park, Dasani, and store brand water. Is it the natural spring or electrolytes that are supposed to give it a more distinct taste? Or is this all just a bunch of BUNK? Today, we expose the truth with this blind water taste test.
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#Water #TasteTest #ExpensiveWater #Dasani #Evian #EvianWater #DeerPark #Fiji #FijiWater #TasteTesting #BlindTasteTest #Theory #FoodTheory #Matpat
Food theory idea: ask each member of food theory what food they would pick if they could only eat 1 food for the rest of their lives and then calculate who would live longest
They did that a while ago turns out the best food it sweet potatoes I think
@@Bob-mi7bc no they just calculated what food they didn't ask anyone
@@S0CKMANNI'm not sure about the others, but MatPat would probably just use what they calculated. Either that or Diet Coke, in which case he does not live long.
watermelon obv. cuz its also hydrating
Avacado
It's actually insane that there are places where you can just drink water without ever having to worry about it being contaminated with problematic bacteria. Like that's actually quite cool.
Same
I live in the alps and i gotta say, the water 2km away from where i live tastes drastically different than the one at home
It's really not. Spring water still needs to be decontaminated.
Any water that will be transported in pipes has to be cleaned. However, where I’m from (Northern Norway) you can drink most of the water running down mountains without even thinking about it. Generally, the water is naturally purified as it’s running down the mountain, and the sources are too high for animals to contaminate - kinda cool! We re-stock on water from small streams whenever we go hiking!
@@Jonsphantom428 not necessarily. Straight from the source head is less likely to have significant contams.
Important to note that in France a pack of 6×1.5L bottles of Evian is between 3-4 euros, so a lot of its expensive price come from shipping
Also you can drink tap water in France and it's like. 034€ per litre and it's even illegal for a business to refuse to serve tap water for free even if nothing else is consumed, sadly there is less and less free access with water fountain but they are still there in some places
@@ThePsylopAt ive seen public sparkling water fountains in paris
The only thing surprising to me is that Evian is third cheapest on the list… I can say for a fact Evian has this smoothness to it that I can pretty clearly distinguish from regular tap.
its funny to me because here in germany a 6pack evian with 1,5L each bottle costs around 7€ which is 7,4 USDollar
No
The 2nd test was a stupidly good control test to make sure you're not just wine tasters.
You know wine tasters can actually taste differences in wine right? It's not like wine is secretly all the same.
@@appa609this is incorrect. There have been hundreds of studies proving that most wine tasters cannot distinguish between a box wine or an expensive brand of wine. They just make it up as they go along based on The name. This has been proven over 100 times. In fact they even tested the so called "best experts" in the world and even THEY failed to tell a cheap wine from an expensive one
@@appa609yeah but wine taster almost never past a test distinguish between different kinds of wine 😂
@@salsasauce9094 Which makes them being able to tell WATER all the more... odd?
@@salsasauce9094'm not a wine taster but you could give me two identical reds of different prices and i could tell you what the cheaper one is 🤷
Love how Steph is making more appearances
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Seeing this video makes me quite happy because many people seem to think that water's all the same when it isn't. I learned this fact several years ago when I got a cat. She can only drink certain water's. If she drinks something like tap water, then she gets sick and throws up. Many other pet owners have probably discovered this the hard way as well.😅
omaigod same with my cat 😂 , she hates tap water so bad.. but when we give her the "cooked" water, she would drink it anytime, i thought it was only my cat
My cats the opposite. She will only drink tap water.
I just chuckle and shake my head when people claim all water is the same. Nutritionally? Mostly. In terms of flavour? Not really. Tap water alone can vary CONSIDERABLY depending on where it's from. Tap water in Berlin will taste different to tap water in Madrid, to tap water in Los Angeles, Sydney, Auckland, and London.
Yeah, I used to really hate drinking certain waters because they tasted so gross to me
Idk my man, you may actually want to get your water tested
I live in BC, Canada. My cousin worked at a big brand bottling company (I forget if it was Coke or Pepsi) and he told me that they just bottle water directly from our taps because its so clean. He knew this because the hosing came loose and he noticed it was just hooked up to a main tap. 😅
Now I understand why I love tap water so much and it isn’t because my water is literally giving me brain freezes sometimes
Spring water is different
I really like when Stephanie taste tests with Matt. Their comedy plays off of each other.
i not reading ALLAT ☝️
@@Yourmom-tw9el illiterate
Yeah, they are a true power couple
Right on!! Love it!
Love it!
Only Matpat could get me to watch a 22 minute long video about water, and have me excited about it. Ohhh my gosh tysm for all of the likes everyone!!!! I’ve never gotten this many before!!! ❤
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Yep true
bro it was posted 1minute ago how did u watch all 22 minutes
Same! Lol
Beer brewing is another place where this comes up. Some home brewers will opt to 'build their own water' when they make their brew, and start by using a filtered water and then adding their own minerals, in order to work towards a specific flavor profile.
12:05 the amount of nostalgia i have for deer park is unhealthy 😭 my family in rural pennsylvania all drink deer park because the well water isn’t always safe, so whenever i see that brand, i just immediately think of being out there with all the trees and animals and whatnot. i mean it also reminds me of my very recently-deceased grandfather but we don’t need to talk about that 💀💀
You Got issues man
@@Azurethewolf168 i certainly do
me too until I found out that deer park is just nestle. they have 6 different waters one for each a specific region of the usa that makes it seem local to that area. Icemountain for north, arrowhead fpr west, deer park for east. ozarka for south, zephyrhills for florida, poland springs for north east. These are sub companies of Blue Triton whoch is a sub company of NESTLE
I am so impressed that Matt managed to turn just drinking different types of water into a 22 minute educational and engaging video that has kept me entertained
bruh 🤦♂️ i am NOT reading allat...
Matpat is the one and only person who can make a 22 minute video about water.
i think you meant a 22 minute video
Ikr😂
I mean, Vsauce probably could tbh
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I do think I want to try airup, though it's because my girlfriend recommended it to me. but Matt demonstrating how the product physically functions helps a lot I think. I like these sorts of quick demonstrations of what things actually look and feel like because you really can't tell from most ads.
Wait until you find out about what micro plastic is in different pH levels (quality of water)
I’d love to see a comparison of different filtered waters, or different additives like you did in the New York Pizza episode. For me, zerowater filtered water tastes delightful
I grew up drinking natural well water, and everyone says I'm crazy when I say that most bottled waters taste bad. Evian has always been my favorite, and one of the few I can stand to drink. So thank you for validating my preference and making me feel less crazy.
Same!
Same here too!
the opposite, I grew up drinking nasty communal water and i love the taste of bottled water-of course, I dont buy it for environmental and financial reasons but if its ever handed out at events for free i consider it a treat
If you travel to Evian, France, there's a free spring where you can take as much as you want.
@@babymaaaanman, your town's water treatment company is really bad at thwir job then
I'm just glad they liked Fiji. I barely drink it because it's expensive, but the first time I tried it, it's like my eyes were opened.
Dollar tree sells bottles for a 1.25
The supermarket sells it for $2.50.
i love Fiji. its perfect in every way. Smart Water is a close second. I especially love Smart Water's flavored still waters
I drank it one time and it just tastes like normal water
Fiji water tastes worse than my tap water
If you go to the Philliplines you can taste the differences in water bottles. So I def love that Food Theory went over this experiement. The love for water only grows as I grow older.
This reminds me of when I tested tap water, reverse osmosis water, hose water, fridge water, and rain water, just to find out what the differences are. Long story short, rain water was the most pure (but “only because the RO filter puts minerals back in,” I’m told), and, maybe a bit shockingly and concerningly, fridge water was the least pure. That’s right. The water out of my Whirlpool fridge is less clean than the water out of my garden hose
It would have been good if you had tested the pH and the hardness of the water to see what the differences were, if any, and how those factors may have come into play and whether or not that affected the taste.
Yeah, I swear some water taste cleaner than other
I always thought Voss was so expensive because it comes in a glass bottle
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I didn't even know Voss existed 💀💀💀💀
Ok but they should also do a comparison on the flavor based on if it’s stored in a glass bottle, a metal can, or a plastic bottle! The taste differences between those is HUGE and I wanna know why
All has to do with micro plastics, and heat exposure! You’ll notice a significant taste difference when plastic bottles are left in the sun than refrigerated, it’s actually taking out some minerals and adding the small concentration of micro plastics. Never go for metal cans like aluminum. Lean towards stainless steal or glass is alright but doesn’t keep the water as cold
@@tristanhaysDrinking cold water is bad for your gut.
@@tristanhaysAlso, we shouldn't drink 30 min before and after meals.
@@nishant54Ngl I sense BS and Cap 🧢 here, cold water is always 10X as satisfying, and it’s natural to have a drink with your meal!
@@deadaccount2048 Nope it's highly unhealthy and you should not drink with meal 30 min before and after ever.
I have a friend who for some reason is really sensitive in drinking water. Some water makes her want to spit it out immediately (its mineral water that we bought from the store) while other water is completely fine (boiled water from my house). This video makes me want to try this experiment the water brands from my country on her to see which ones are safe for her to drink and which aren't. Wish me luck
When Matpat was recounting how a classmate of his only drank Fiji water because it was "the purest" I laughed because I had a classmate who was exactly the same way. Minus the not letting his lips touch the bottle.
We all knew that one person, but don't forget that group that always drank the "boxed water" that was just a cardboard box around a plastic bottle.
Pfft amateurs. Real aquaphiles have PhD in biochemistry, distill their own pure water, and add their own perfectly personally tailored mineral blend. Bonus points for having a workout electrolyte mix vs every day mix. And always drinking out of glass containers, period.
I’m that one classmate in my class that always says Fiji water is the purest 😅
@@AlexanderTheGoodEnoughpfft drink out of glass? Simple people drink out of such containers. Only true water drinkers drink water out of laboratory grade borosilicate vessels
@@ImposterfnfPOV: you're the idiot
Fun fact: I actually tasted fresh spring water right out of its source while camping and hiking up to the summet of these mountains in 2010. And let me tell ya, good high quality water like that is tasteless. It was absolute perfection. And it was also *extremely* freezing cold. It was so pure way up there since it was at the very start of the river coming out from inside the mountain that we didn't even need the filter to drink straight from the river that time. Just took a cup and dipped it in really. Was painfully cold for our fingers tho! 😅 That's why I like Fiji. Tho I guess I should also try Evian now too then.
You're so lucky,that sounds so refreshing😭
I've had water from the source as well, very crisp. Stick with Fiji, it's consistently better. Also, let's not forget what evian spells backwards.
It's sad that we fell from purity in terms of water
evian spells naive backwards.. makes me wonder
They just told you in the video that you can't taste cold water very well
I’m absolutely loving the editing of FT videos. This is fantastic.
It would be interesting to do an experiment getting waters from different restaurants/fast food places and figuring out which is better
We actually did an experiment like this in my 12th grade psychology class. I don't really remember the results other than they all tasted like clay to me for some reason (this was 8 years ago. I can barely remember what I had for breakfast lol) the whole thing was pretty cool though. Too bad that teacher passed away a couple years later 😔 he was an awesome teacher. He was even the DJ for all the school dances in my city. RIP Mr. Perry.
RIP Top G
@@westlans2446nah the person who is usually called top g is Andrew Tate so that's just offensive since Andrew Tate is the biggest loser on earth
I only ever drank Dasani for most of my life, and then, one day at Costco I decided to get a 32 pack of Fiji water. Changed my life man
Bruh
Lol
Damm bruh you must've had the most miserable life before thay
How does it feel to be stupid enough to fall for marketing gimmicks? Answer honestly.
@@JANFU_Nova it isn't because he drunk Fiji, it was just because he drank something other than dasani
You know looking back at these channels over the years. Matpat really got some mileage out of that picture of himself
Moving to the US, it was shocking to me how expensive Evian is over here compared to Europe lmao. Evian was always my go-to in the UK, but I suppose importing drinks from France is really pricey.
Supply and demand is a powerful factor, I imagine. If you want to emulate the flavor for much cheaper, I'd recommend looking into the mineral content, and adding salts into strongly filtered water to match. ("Zero Water" is a filter brand that does a fantastic job for much cheaper than bottled/distilled water.)
In France, you can buy the same bottle for 1€ lmao
Some towns in the US actually have spring water available to get directly from the source. My family used to get water from Healing Springs when we lived in Neeses, SC. The spring was in Blackville, just 19 miles away. If you miss Evian, I'd suggest searching for local springs. The water is hard to beat.
In Malaysia it almost same price as big mac ala carte
Its not about it being pricey, its called capitalism and profiting off people being dumb enough to see some brands of water as premium
Gotta love how MatPat is able to quench our taste for lore and food
*cough* excuse the pun.
quenchh
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What you did there, we all saw it
YOU HAD ONE JOB
The death by water image at the beginning made me really excited to see your thoughts on it. Oh well, lol. Personally Voss is my favorite as well, but part of that comes from the fact that they sell in glass bottles, so you don't get that plasticy after taste.
It's so crazy to me to hear people talk about different brands of bottled water. Sure, we have those over here as well, but it's a matter of 'which costs less' or 'do you need a big or a small one'. And that usually falls to mineral water, not plain normal water. AND only when you need water to go. If you sit at home or can bring your own bottle, you could almost never be bothered here. It's just so insane to me
As someone who only drinks water I already knew there is a difference between brands. Fiji water always has a soft taste to me although I feel like over the years it hasn’t gotten as soft but it’s still my favorite but I want to try the other ones.
That's exactly how I have always described it, definitely a soft taste.
Exactly! People always look at me weird when I say it’s soft
I like core
Whatever u do don't have aquafina tastes like ahh
I suggest Zephyrhills in my opinion it's the best even moist critical agrees lol it is spring water bottled from Floridas springs it's my to go brand for years now
“Colors won’t affect it.” Green cup: “I taste something cucumber.” DID THEY FORGET THE FLAVORED GUMMY VIDEO?!?
But that is the actual gummy not just in the room.
Also the purple cup in the last test. Purple = expensive in semiology
Probably didn't think that it would have any effect
Hmmmmm
A funny water thing (kind of a meme in our house): Clear Alaska Glacier Water. It IS bottled at Eklutna Lake which IS fed from a glacier… but Eklutna Lake is also the freshwater source for the City of Anchorage, Alaska, the largest city in the state of Alaska. So Alaskans living in Anchorage effectively get the same water from their tap that CLEAR ALASKA GLACIER WATER bottles up. Tap water put into a bottle automatically makes it a premium 🤣
As a Swedish person who grew up on different versions of tap water yes. You can taste the difference between different waters in different cities. They even had a competition on which tap water tastes the best.
I sometimes buy Voss water, but mainly just for the glass bottle, which i fill with tap water later. It holds temperature surprisingly well, and has a big opening making it very pleasant to drink from.
I have used the same large Voss sparking water glass bottle at work for like, years 😂 I do wash it of course, but heck if it hasn’t been a fantastic investment.
@@Yourmom-tw9el just like your mom reading your adoption paper
@@lolvancedit’s a bot homie
The bottle is also surprisingly strong
Sameee, actually it’s worth for the bottle 😂😭
You should have also used tap water, and home made filtered waters in the mix that way you could have gotten the true Cheap to expensive test
That would theoretically be a fun idea, but tap water varies widely from city to city. I've been in cities that have tap water ranging from "this tastes better than bottled water" to "I can't even brush my teeth with this because it tastes so bad" and those two cities are only a couple hours drive from each other.
And, Kirkland signature water from Costco.
The city I live in right now has great tap water because it's from a spring and they don't need to put that much chemical into it. I guess what I'm saying is that it's not consistent; so telling the internet that you did or didn't like the taste of your tap water isn't very helpful.
I think that the water sommelier said something like the water tends to taste better in places with more rainfall [and also maybe mountains, but I don't remember], which makes sense to me. Texas is super barren and California pumps the water full of chlorine to sanitize it and they're both bad [to me]
@@sparklefulpaladin Aha you can taste the water difference within a 20 minute drive where I am. The source water for the two cities are two different locations. Both are from above ground reservoirs, but one goes through a longer treatment than the other and one city uses the water more so there is higher turn over from what is made and what is used and you can taste it. Funny enough despite having less treatment that city's water does not taste great an no one likes it. The people in the city I live in, think our water comes from some beautiful underground spring and it actually from a man made lake that has a heavily monitored water shed, and goes through a long treatment cycle. The same city also has a backup system where extra treated water goes to get stored, and when we are flowing out of that one, it tastes and smells different. And you can catch it in the morning when water usage is the highest. People say its tastes stale and..it is, its stored water, its UV treated once more and treated with chlorine before it goes out but because its been sitting longer out from the initial aeration process, it tastes stale. Oxygenated water makes it tastes cwisp!
I went on a trip to Canada years back and I went out on a glacier. They had a little stream of nearly freezing water running down the glacier that they let you try. That was some of the best water I've ever had. It was crisp, smooth, and pretty tasteless but in a good way. So I do believe that stuff like Evian can taste better but at the same time I'm too cheap to buy all my water in bottles instead of just drinking it from my sink or fridge
Wow!
My psychology class did something similar but we poured the water out of the bottles and needed to describe the taste. Next week we were told that the bottles were emptied and then filled with water from the tap. Everyone had made descriptions based on the bottles. I listed them all as unfiltered tap water and asked to add ice to make it taste better.
If there's more than two waters that tasted suspiciously similar then I'd probably have done the same thing and revisited them while consciously stripping my mind of their branding to see if I was being tricked.
Me and a couple friends did a similar test. We came to the conclusion that out of 14 different types of water the glacier rain water from Maverick is the best tasting water. There were 10 people and that ranked highest in the blind taste test by an entire number.
Yes, someone else knows! Maverick water is so fresh
i am not reading allat essay u wrote bro sorry
@@Yourmom-tw9elbro barely wrote a paragraph fym 😭
@@Yourmom-tw9elthey wrote 3 sentences. how is that an essay lol, it's 3 freaking sentences
I’m a junior in high school now but when I was in 8th grade a friend of mine would refill a Fiji bottle with tap water and bring it to school every day telling people that it’s pure and expensive water. He only told me the truth after I had a sip after gym class and said it had the distinct taste of tap water. 😂
That’s pretty hilarious 😂
5:13 i love how i got an air up ad right before this
Pov: you're binge watching different theory videos of MatPat because they keep on popping up on your feed
Mad respect to steve for keeping that natural taste of Fiji water
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He indeed was a madlad
I love how Steph is making more appearances. I love her so much! Her energy with MatPat is always fun to watch
It is. They’re a great couple
thinking about moistcritikal’s water tier list video lmfaoo!! also prozd’s water hobby skit is so funny 😂
I knew i hated heavy in minerals water. I loved the smoth tasteless pure water of fiji. That's how water should taste like.
Considering that American water is crosscut with alot of stuff requiring lots and lots of filters to make drinkable should u do a food theory to test which water in which region just so happens to be the most healthy? Perfect for a water week series
Exactly. Not just different brands. But, if you bought more than one from more than one place, you will find that some water, of the same brand, claim to be same sources, taste different depending where I bought them. And some, have made me sick
Thats why Canada the best we have the most fresh water in the world
@@Kink-Panther1s ago
real good idea hope he sees it
was coming to the comments to say this same thing! i've been hearing alot about certain types of purified water being bad and not hydrating you as much because certain minerals are removed and not added back and to conter act it ive seen you should put a piece of real pink Himalayan sea salt on your tongue for each bottle (?). Don't know how true it is but curious about what water is healthiest because of it lol.
It's crazy how coca-cola literally buys water from Florida springs, which already tastes great when you get it straight from the spring, but then purify it and takes all the minerals out and then makes it so much worse
Reverse osmosis filtering is actually quite common for a lot of bottled waters, beers, softdrinks and what not. It gives the customer a guarantee that no bad stuff can enter their drinks and that they might get sick by drinking this bad stuff. (RO filtering is filtering nearly everything out of the water leaving you with pure water) All the waters get their flavor from calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, sodium and other salts. These salts are in the water at very low volume, to low to reach your daily dosis, yet they do give flavor. In the Netherlands at the back of each bottle is even its mineral content written down. Factories do know how to make awesome tasting artificial water, and are most likely doing that. Yet, to get your fancy way way to expensive water to sale, you need some less well tasting water at a lower price point. For example adding just a bit more iron will make your bottled water a bit more bitter. So why would Coca-Cola make their water taste less desirable? Well, the fancy consumers most likely won’t ever connect Coca-Cola to fancy expensive tasting water, therefor under their own name they launch a bit less flavorful water. This to only launch under a completely other name a very expensive tasting water, most likely one with a very huge marketing budget. This is where they will earn their profits while sealing off the bottom of the market with their own brand. But hey, that’s just my theory, a chemist theory 🤓
i think u have the wrong video-
@@ralphb7401Just don’t drink DI water or nano water.
I remember seeing a video that showed that Dasani is the water left behind from the Soda business.
here in Austria, wee have so much high quality natural mineral Water that voss or Fiji water are redundant. a big bottle( 1.5 liters or 0.4 gallon) of natural mineral water cost around 30-40 cents.
I would definitely put tap water in each bottle to see if the shape of the cups matters
Could the composition of the plastic also have an effect on the taste? Like how in your Coke experiment, the can, the bottle, and the tap/fountain all had distinct flavors.
It absolutely can. I bought a bottle of Fiji water from a local gas station a few months back... it tasted much worse than usual, and vaguely like convenience store air. Anything stored in plastic tends to slowly absorb ambient flavors/scents. That won't make a noticeable difference in most single-serve bottled drinks because they have a bunch of flavor of their own, but for subtle things like water it can be massive. Especially in products with a low turnover rate, that can sit on the shelf for weeks instead of rotating through every few days.
They should have removed more variables. Yes. The color and the type of the container used have an effect, which is why it’s ridiculous for them to say that the color has no effect 🤨 that was surprising to hear someone on this channel be so confidently wrong
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Man, has it really been a whole year since AirUp came in and blew the Theorist team’s collective mind? That’s absolutely insane.
I got to try evani recently for the first time and it actually tasted a bit better. There was this slight subtle sweetness that I strongly prefered.
Try it from a glass bottle
It would have been interesting to include something like bulk drinking water ( the kind you get in the gallon milk jugs in the US) along with pure distilled water (which tastes terrible but would have made for a fun wild card in the experiment) and your local tap water. Basically to differentiate if the cheapest bottled waters are any better (or worse) than the most available options for most folks.
I've been saying for years that Dasani is the most disgusting water and my friends & family have always told me I'm crazy. This makes me feel so vindicated.
You're 100% right. Ask them to try it lukewarm. The taste is easier to discern then. It's like toilet water.
There's a whole Family Guy cutaway about it, too. "What if every bottle tasted like there was a nickel in it?"
@@jasonbernard5468you've drank toilet water? 🤢
Same!!!
Lol i can drink dasani, but prefer smartwater or spring water
I wish they had added their own Britta-filtered water into this experiment to see how it compares.
exactly, this is a huge oversight I don't understand.
Personally I'm a big fan of Zerowater. Depending on where you live tap water doesn't taste great, and in my experience Britta still leaves some of that taste in, but with Zerowater or similar I do feel like you get a very consistent (non-)taste. It's definitely become my favorite day-to-day water, and a lot more ecologically friendly compared to buying bottled water. I can enjoy mineral water in a restaurant some times though.
The Britta Filter problem is that still is dependent on the water your starting with, and well duh its rather redundant that a reusable bottle and filter is more economical.
They should have also included tap water just to see where it would line up
Oh no, Britta's not in this?
In a world, where nobody is unique but we keep telling one another that we are so unique. Of course people would do anything to stand out and fulfill that illusion.
You guys seem to expose the food and beverage industry more than having ideas. It's great.
I'm honestly surprised that they didn't think water brands tasted different considering water just from the tap in different locations has specific tastes. Also - just about everyone I know absolutely hates Dasani. I'd be interested to hear their opinions on liquid death!
Right? Honestly liquid death is my favorite. Not because its so much better but i cant taste plastic in it like literally every other brand. As for tap water ive lived in 30 diffrent states and the tap water is radically diffrent at each and every single one of them. Also every single one of them had traces of lead in the tap water too when tested. Some moreso then others. Worst by far was missouri where the lead was at dangerious levels lol. Best is my current place which has well water and is the first where the water is actully safe to drink
@@arcticfox5118 I discovered liquid death after having to go grocery shopping with my mom since dad's getting to old to go, and its been quite the surprise honestly how tasty all the flavors have been so far. This morning I decided to try the lime flavor and its like a zero sugar sprite but better?! Need to try the berry flavor but I'm a little contemplative on how artificial it might end up tasting....
@@animeman2 yea the berry one aint great though my mom loves it. The best ones are the plain water, the lime mango and arnold palmer flavors. Peach is also really really good
Poland spring>>>
Yeah, noticed that when I spent some months in London. It had a funky, vaguely iron-y soulfurous taste I couldn't quite get used to. I've been to places whose water had close to the maximum allowed limit for sodium and you can also definitely taste it being saltier than average
Just ran across your videos yesterday and you earned a subscription. Very interesting stuff and you make it fun! Great channel!
only the theorist team could get a video about water to #6 on trending ✨
Ain't no way anyone else could
I used to go camping a lot and the different taste of spring waters is very obvious in a way I didn’t realize till I had to drink from bottled water(I usually drink from the tap). I’ve also drank from like spring water that has a tap attached to it but all the pipes were rusted. Rusty water also just hits different bow
Finally, validated! My friends have always been skeptical about water having flavor, but I've always been very picky about my water, though I've found that some cheap brands aren't always the worst! I drink any water that my tongue can tolerate xD
I wish you had included the Walmart brand purified water 40 count pack used to be 3 1/2 dollars. Now it’s all the way up to $5 for 40 bottles. OUTRAGEOUS!😂
Or Costco's 25 cent bottles.
@@ScooterinAB I mean, how is that a better deal than the one that I stated?
It's $0.125 per bottle so a good price
imo that great value purified water tastes much better than deer park/dasani/aquafina, but don’t quote me on that
I remember buying 2 of the 35 packs for 5 bucks not even a couple years ago.
I always wondered why refrigerator water tasted a lot better than tap water, despite tap having more filters on it. Thanks matpat
Turn your faucet to cold and let it run for a few extra moments before filling it, to let it get cold. Does a lot of good (or the opposite if you wanna make tea without manually heating your water, since most faucets go to steaming)
@@mswolfy811Never drink the hot water from the faucet! It’s a great way to get some metals from the plumbing in you
not reading allat, especially these two doorknobs under your comment...
@@sabinajohI’ve always wondered about this - how much of a difference does the water being hot rather than cold make on how much of the pipe metal is in the water? I doubt it has to do with hot water being more soluble, because the amounts of the metals in the water are so small that it can’t be because cold water has reached its saturation limit.
@@sabinajohwhat if I want bits of metal in my system.
Watching this video while sipping on my filtered tap water. Yeah... I'm never going to pay the prices for bottled water. This is just outlandish.
I’ve switched to filtered tap water also. Love it!
I grew up drinking water from a well and let me tell you nothing like it ❤. Thank you for all of your awesome content
I'd love to see a theory on whether mineral waters are actually worth it (similar to the sports drinks video). Do they have actual health benefits? Which are the best and worst?
It's all about the same. Tap water is actually better than mineral water in terms of minerals, since they treat the water to remove impurities, pathogens , and heavy metals in it and then they add calcium and fluoride, among other ingredients that malnourished people would benefit from.
FYI Gerolsteiner sparkling mineral water is the best and is actually worth it because it has the most minerals out of all the brands on the market. Germany just does mineral water the best. All the German mineral water brands are amazing. They taste even better in glass bottles. Nothing else compares. Also they don't have natural flavors in it like the brand Topo Chico Sparkling Mineral Water. it is just quality water with really strong carbonation, and a plethora of minerals put together in a scientific way that is just satisfying. At first you will think the minerals are just too much, but then you will get addicted to it. It reduces food cravings, and gets minerals in your body that you are probably not getting enough in your diet like magnesium.
Oh I actually commented a similar idea lol Cuz like, what's the most beneficial to hydrate from?? Dasani is famously hated cuz it can dehydrate you after a certain point cuz they add small amounts of salt to their water, so I was disappointed he didn't touch on that in this video
@@OsAbliNgin911 "Most minerals" doesn't always mean best though. Like the sports drink video they did, it's the balance of minerals that matters, proportions, not just how much you can shove in one bottle
@@runed0s86 Tap water is already treated with chlorine and there are some cities that still have occasional issues with lead or other poisonings from the pipes, and of course the ph of the water matters a lot to the taste (which I say cuz too high of a ph water and I can't drink more than half a sip without nearly throwing up and have to let it age, so ph can still be important even if it won't effect more than taste and maybe a couple extra burps)
In France one of the most popular water is volvic which, like Fiji, is filtered by a volcano. However it's inexpensive and have a somewhat metallic taste to me. It would be interesting to compare the two.
You should do an episode on water used to cut barrel proof whiskey and whether it actually matters if you use Kentucky limestone water or something else (like distilled water). It would also be interesting to see if there is much of a difference between Kentucky limestone water and something like Evian (which are both hard water) when it comes to cutting whiskey and why it affects the flavor.
"CLEARLY this has gotta be some sort of a gimmick, right?" I see what you did there. ;)
6:15 "I taste WET" best quote we've gotten yet
I'm actually pretty sensitive to water, bad water gives me a visceral reaction. Me and my family did a bunch of experiments to try to figure out the best water. We discovered some interesting things along the way though, for example, the taste of water varies drastically from person to person, with many people simply not being able to taste the difference at all. Container also seems to have a pretty huge impact on the flavor, as cheaper plastic containers seem to leach something into the water, well, tougher plastic, like the plastic used in Fiji bottles, or just plain old glass, seems to be a lot better at preserving the original flavor. And temperature certainly has an impact, just like the guy himself said, the colder water is the more powerful it is regardless of where it actually came from.
Absolutely agree about plastic bottles having a strong affect on the taste. My theory was always that plastic bottles that were kept for a while, especially if it got hot, would start breaking down enough to leach into the water. Thicker plastic bottles, like Fiji, do better, but can still have the same issue (though never as strong).
i not reading allat
I moved from Missouri, where the tap water in my home town tastes like pool water, to Montana, where the water comes from wells. The water tastes SO so good here. I always drink from the tap now!
I am sorry for everyone not having access to good tap water. Here in Germany it’s the most monitored and controlled product for human consumption. Bottled uncarbonated water is just an insane concept for me. Tap water is much tastier most of the time (and comes cool from the tap too)
there's so many different waters but it's fun to see people for the first time notice the differences in tastes in water i've had relatives ask me how i can taste the differences in water and now i'm happy that i'd be able to show them this video also if you ever come to france there's other waters like evian that taste nicer and some are even cheeper than evian
nah
My parents used to think I was crazy when it came to this! There is legitimately a different taste when it comes to different bottled water.
Bro.. It doesnt taste different, its just healthier...
@@Subtopeanutplaysdont healthier items taste different from their less healthy counterparts?
As i french, i really dislike bottle water. I onlj drink tap water. I don’t know why. Problably because i mosly drank tap water during my childhood.
I've been to Voss a fair amount of times, and I know someone who bought the water once just for the bottle so they could keep using it as a refill bottle for tap water.
That's what kids at my high school would do 😂😂 me too sometimes lol. Would buy a water bottle like Fiji or Voss and then just reuse the water bottle. And I mean, why not? Voss water bottles are pretty neat
well, it is tap water... just from Norway, that is....
@@VideosProoo Yeah, I know. It's just different if you live in the place. But not everywhere in Norway is Voss, I'm looking a a good few hours trip to get there. Some ppl refuse to drink the tap water where I live in Norway. It's mostly outsiders who freaked cuz the old system had a few hiccups, and it got published, but now they literally built a fix and they are being extra careful just in case. also, there are like 3 different places where we get water from, and only one is the "problem", the other two are just fine. So even if you are connected to one of the fine ones outsiders still won't drink it. Even if you explain to them, they are overreacting and it's fine.
@XxXNightcoreQueenXxX voss water isn't even from Voss. It's from a tiny place in Agder
@@XxXNightcoreQueenXxX ah, I live in Northern Norway.. Yeah, I remember that hiccup. IIRC, Didn’t someone die?
Oh my goodness it was SUCH a coincidence that I had a Fiji ad RIGHT after you were talking about how you didn’t listen to Steve😂😂😂 That’s so insane😂
Living in Norway, something I always take for granted has always been having clean water to drink straight from the tap, or even up in the mountains. I never understood why anyone would buy a bunch of bottled water, because why not just drink from the tap? Only when I went to England did I drink water from the tap that I actually hated. It never occurred to me that other people would never drink water from outside streams or that their tap water tastes gross. It made me very grateful for our clean water, and happy that I essentially have "expensive water" in my every day tap, no matter where in my country I go. If you live in the right areas in Norway, you can literally drink the Voss water from your own tap too! _Anyway, water should be a human right everywhere..._
**Nestle wants to know your location**
I finally feel validated!! I've always been called crazy for saying i can tell the difference between bottled waters and had a preference. I can now just show them this video! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
Was going to comment the same!
You may be a Supertaster, I Believe I am one. My mom is one of those people though that can't tell a difference.
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆?
volvic water >>>
Me and my family and my partner can all tell the difference, but when we talk to friends, they are so confused @____@ I absolutely cannot stand arrow head, Dasani was my favorite till I got Voss. (I have to specify, I liked Dasani because of the original packaging, I think I became disillusioned after they changed the packaging lol)
i do love this channel but there is a variable that they didnt acount for the colour of the cups can influence the taste of the water like you stated in another theory
Great. I was perfectly happy with tap water. Now Im looking to spend more money in a supermarket looking for a specific bottled water. Thanks, MatPat.
I've been waiting for the theory on water! Thanks for providing MatPat
not reading allat 🤦♂️ idk why you all write frigging essays when he wont read them
Can we get a video on if the different bottles change how the water tastes and feels and how well they insulate the water? I think that would be an interesting subject to see if the bottle itself effects the price.
Yes, but even more so, adding canned water into the mix!
That’s what I was gonna say!
Boxed water
affects, not effects.
@@jonmc6573i knew someone would feel the need to correct them
I live in Colorado Springs near Manitou and there’s a tap with fresh spring water straight from pikes peak. Best water I’ve ever had.
In southern austria, where i live, all people i know usually drink tap water, because of the alps, where we get the water from, it’s safe and tates good most of the time, but there are definitely differences in the tastes, almost anyone here acknowledges that. So for me it’s always been weird to know there are people who almost exclusively drink bottled water instead of „just using the water they alredy have“ but the more i learned about it the more i learned to appreciate our water.
I have actually done this with local brands! And my results were that they all have different aromas when opened, and water taste. Some bottles from the same pack had drastically different tastes! (Sweetness, a sorta plastically taste?
i've also noticed that with different brands, maybe its the plastic?
Only thing I noticed is that a 12 pack of water is still the best choice
Matpat inspires me.. My parents said if i get 35K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging..
Honnestly, ever since i've moved to Ottawa, I've become a water snob (as my Dad calls it) and can taste differences in water. Ottawa water is delisious. The water at my cottage is discusting. I don't know what it is, but I NEED a theory about it! Why does water taste different?
@@namantherockstarGet a job
This video makes me wonder wether Matpat is gonna cover the situation that is U.S. tap water, specifically how in a lot of places the tap water is unhealthy, and some piping that delivers tap water can contain lead.
The problem is there really is no theory to test. This is a known fact that isn’t fun to discuss.
The U.S does not have the worst water by like a mile, many other places have way worse water and water systems
I wish they had tap water in the lineup, the tap water in my hometown is amazing, But knowing the source of Californias tap I wouldn't be suprised if it tasted horrible
It’s just flint and east Palestine, there’s no situation
Fun fact is that water sources is one thing that will cause highly adaptability in humans. The few areas that the only water sources was contaminated caused humans to adapt to it or die. One that stuck with me is when a volcano erupted it caused the river water of a Tribal people to start building up with arsenic and other chemical products. Killing off groups of Tribal people but after a while the survivers built up a resistance to heavy metals and other things now in their only source of water. After awhile they moved which was their downfall because from what could be pieced together without the heavy metal laced water their body had withdrawal and ended up killing them.
I visited family in one of the big north american bottling regions during my childhood. I can always tell when it comes from there.
The editing on this one was really fun :>
I'm amused by MatPat's ability to scrutinize every little thing. 😂 Edit: Mum help I’m famous now- I really did not expect this to blow up the way it did..
Matpat inspires me.. My parents said if i get 35K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging..
I just don't see the point in paying a premium for plastic bottles, when with a proper filter, a person can have FREE well filtered water all the time. Though, I'm also for well water over city water, only because it's free from an underground spring on your own property. The only charges are the well itself, and the equipment installed to pump it to your house. You just have to have the company run maintenance on it maybe every 10 years or so. You just have to make sure no dead animals don't get into the source, and don't use any chemicals around it as well. 😕
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FIJI SUCKS ALL MY HOMIES HATE FIJI
😂😂😂 here before this blows up
Love the interplay between Steph and Mat, it's great when episodes give her space to shine - she's funny and relatable
Nah, why the emoji bigger than the comment?💀
@@kolossis8283lmao
Need to do Liquid Death and how it flipped marketing on its head. Bonus points if you dive into the meaning of the fluid ounces.
This is a great informative video. Great work 👏 👍 and thanks
When I was hearing MatPat say that water had no taste I was gonna write ‘only true water drinkers know that different water have different taste’. But then he went on to do a taste test 😂