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Could you drink distilled water with a mineral pill (swg-empire.de)

submitted 7 months ago by bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Drinking pure H2O isn't good for you. As far as I know it could even be deadly. But what if you had a pill with all the minerals usually dissolved in water and washed it down with a nice big glass of distilled water? Would it be more or less the same as drinking tap water? Or would you need more time to dissolve the minerals? What if you threw the pill into the H2O and stirred?

Or am I missing something entirely? I think someone on Lemmy even explained to me the other day what is so bad about distilled water. But I'm stupid today and forgot.

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[–] lud@lemm.ee 20 points 7 months ago

Distilled water shouldn't be bad at all.

It shouldn't be your only source of water though.

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Distilled water is fine unless you are not eating food. Which means you’ll die eventually anyway. Plenty of minerals in solid food.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.de 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is almost literally the process Coca-Cola uses for its Smartwater brand. People outside Coca-Cola have described the process of removing everything then adding it back as dumb though. I wonder why

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

I think this would be fine. But the mineral content of that glass of natural water is probably tiny, so the pill would be mostly filler.

[–] lps@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

As I understand your neighbour wants to remove fluoride, can he get an under tap filter that only removes those types of chemicals? If not, why not simply buy mineral/spring water. Where I live it's the same price.

[–] fixmycode@feddit.cl 1 points 7 months ago

I asked a distilled water seller once, they say you can basically drink it because it's made from tap water, but they get to sell it with a margin because they don't have to be food grade certified, so they have to put a warning on the bottle. there could be a lot of nasty things in the distill process.

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Yes. Home brewers do this all the time with beer.

[–] meanmon13@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

Been drinking distilled water all my life... I even have a countertop water distiller to ensure I always have it available. I prefer the taste of distilled water over RO water