Buffalo Boy's Blog

According to the definition of water, water is a tasteless, odorless liquid. So what gives?

There should be no debate, but recently I had a debate with people at work recently and it has come up in other venues as well. Vitamin Water and other "waters" that are on the market are very misleading. Propel made by Gatorade is another that is misleading with its claim to be a "water". The definition is clear and the stuff that is in the Vitamin Water bottles is not, I repeat, NOT water.  

If these were water it would be not just tasteless and odorless but also colorless and free of calories. However, these vitamin waters have color, they certainly are not tasteless and they have calories and are not odorless so I say the word "water" shouldn't even be on the bottle.

It is misleading to people and they think that they can drink it like it is water, when in fact a bottle of this stuff has over 100 calories per bottle and the Propel actually has corn syrup in it which is code for sugar.

The argument came back that its made of water and had vitamins in it, yeah well beer is made of water too but I don't see anyone labeling it Alcohol Water do you? Coffee is made of water, yet no one is trying to insist that coffee is in fact water. Its coffee, the second you change the properties of water, it is something else.  

So, the stuff isn't water, its a clever way to get those who think they are doing something right to buy the stuff. It may be better than getting a Pepsi or Coke, but reality is, nothing is better than a plain simple glass or bottle of colorless, odorless, calorieless and tasteless WATER.