Spyke
jlai.lu

Water is so far above everything else that EVERY SINGLE SODA is forced to add around 80% water.

This comment was made by the water gang.

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Catsrulesreply
lemmy.ml

I actually think water percentage would be in the high 90s. 80% water sounds like it would be more like syrup consistency.

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Denvilreply
lemmy.one

Google tells me 90-95% water, and 98% or more for diet

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fknreply
lemmy.world

Since soda is actually like 95-98% water, soda is basically water... Ipso facto soda homies are actually hydro homies confirmed.

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sh.itjust.works

Water is very dangerous because 100% people that tried it, died

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sagreply
lemm.ee

Yep but I am addicted to it

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lemm.ee

Actually about 7% of those that have tried it are still alive and well! 😀 (Our current global population represents about 7% of all humans that have ever lived)

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Scubusreply
sh.itjust.works

Not only that, but 100% of murder victims were found to have infested it within a week of their death

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lemmy.world

I think you mean ingested, but I will admit infested is much funnier

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it has been shown in the lab that too much dihydrogen monoxide causes suffocation and it is one of the primary requirements of cancer cells to survive

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I'd fight the shit out of you but I am afraid you are just too well hydrated and I stand no chance.

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lemmy.world

That woman shouldn't be alive. What is that barrel made of? So many questions..

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It's probably photoshopped. You can't trust anything these days smh my head

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Water is S, Milk is A, and Beer might be D tier. It’s bad for you like the drinks in F tier, but you at least catch a buzz.

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lemmy.world

I mean, you didn't include anything like tea, so it's kinda just easy. Fizzy, calorie-pumped, nutritionless, cheap-dopamine-providing, overpriced and overpackaged water is pretty low hanging fruit.

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available in abundance

Let's hope it stays that way :/

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From me? Because if from me, touché, I wouldn't want to be a beer around me either.

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lemmy.world

Oh hey, it’s just a girl.

I kinda always knew she’d end up my ex girlfriend, and that shit was bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Don’t speak, I know just what you’re thinking. It didn’t happen. Well. You’re right. It didn’t.

God, I wish I could stop but I just can’t.

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lemmy.world

Water is the goat but have you ever jad a soda pop made botanically? Modern soda is just synth flavors and sugar, but it used to be flavored with actual spices. It's harder to find, but if you can find a truly classic soda brand it absolutely slaps modern corn syrup shit out of the universe

Imagine tasting cola, except it actually has a deep flavor palette and isn't cloyingly sweetened subsidized corn liquid

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If one of the few ingredients listed is cane sugar, and no corn syrup in sight, you're in for a delicious, probably better for you*, treat.

*[citation needed]

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Coffee for breakfast water for lunch and beer for dinner, what else do you need

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Tea and coffee A tier. Juice is D tier (basically the same amount of sugar as sodas but at least has some antioxidants).

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lemmy.world

i won’t fight you about water but we can fight over something else if you’d like

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lemmy.world

How about whether or not the earliest-known literate civilizations in the ancient Near East were of each other's existence?

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I think you skipped the “aware”. If so, then I must argue that I don’t know enough about the topic, and since I don’t know then no body else knows and if they say they do it’s a conspiracy! So there.

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Oh, most Assur-edly. But seriously though, that depends on what you mean by "the earliest-known". Which specific cultures are you referring to? Sumerian was the de facto lingua franca (for written language) until superseded by Assyrian, and in either case, warfare between city-states and proto-states was full on raging basically since the beginning until, well, now. So they were quite aware. The Mesopotamian delta is only so big, you've got the two main trading and shipping arteries running through the desert, Eufrat and Tigris, making it super lush and pretty, so generally those were the areas fought over (though back then even the desert wasn't quite as desert-y as it is today, and there's plenty of ruins in the middle of bumfuck sandland, though arguably they wouldn't have settled there without a good source of water. The Assyrians built some sick-ass aqueducts, too, but let's not talk about them because they were not very nice people).

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lemmy.world

Depends on whether it's skimmed. Your heart and arteries will thank you.

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Imagine having to add solid bits of water to make it better. The audacity.

-This response was made by the Keep Water Liquid gang.

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lemmy.world

Where is (real)juice though? Feel that should be at maybe C? And if softdrinks are f, where is Redbull?

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reddthat.com

I've been reducing my sugar intake and recently fully quit caffeine. I was never big on sodas but I recently had one at a work lunch because it was the only option available and it was shocking how overly sweet it seemed

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LwLreply
lemmy.world

Coffee is bitter. There's shit coffee that's pretty much only bitter and nothing else, but any coffee will have bitterness.

Though I agree that "very very bitter" sounds like bad coffee.

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lemm.ee

If you don't drink bitter things regularly, then normal coffee tastes very bitter, especially if you are more sensitive to bitter taste.

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About a gallon and a half of low-alcoholic beer for me every day for the past some thirty years. Keeps me healthy, virile, and my teeth clean.

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sagreply
lemm.ee

Something like this exist? Cool

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Hydrohomies was a big sub on Reddit for a good while. Idk where it's at now, but yeah, it's like a whole thing.

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lemmy.world

I don't disagree that water is king. But putting coke and pepsi in the same tier must be some kind of crime.

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KredeSerafreply
lemmy.world

And forever more shall our families fued. On my blood do I swear undying enmity towards the PepsiApologist, Kiwi_Girl.

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Siegfriedreply
lemmy.world

You mean, like carbonated pressed birds fluid? Please add ice to that

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I once bought a stange Chinese can that according to the label (and because of multiple translation mistakes) it was a soup, a beverage and a soda.

And I also bought another one from Vietnam that says it's a soda and includes "bird nest" as an ingredient.

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Kiwi_Girlreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

O Holy One, Pepsiman, who blesses our teeth with holes shaped in your great symbol's image.

Grant us the strength to drive these CokeCrusaders from our lands, led by the dastardly KredeSeraf.

May our rivers once again flow ripe with the chemical by-products of your majestic factories.

Dulcis. Immutabilis. Pepsi.

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I have tried both and both taste like a lethal dose of liquid sugar. Among the American drinks only Fanta doesn't outright taste like diabetes, it only has that as an aftertaste.

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i only drink pepsi when its available and when theres nothing else, so i wouldnt know

(by available i mean someone already bought it and is giving some to me)

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lemmy.world

Drinking water gives me acid reflux, always has. Which is weird because fanta is a lot more acidic and doesn't do that.

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There's common misconseption that higher acid in your stomach causes acid reflux, however it is actually the oposite. There's sphincter in your esophagus which contracts when there's enough acidity and opens when there's lack of. So when you are having bad reflux, try increasing your stomach acid by either chewing gum, eating sour or eating something bitter. Avoid drinking large amount of water after heavy meals, since you are diluting acid. Also less smoking and drinking helps (quitting smoking really helped for me. Those over the counter tablets containing carbonate salts actually make it even worse, since they neutralize stomach acid, when you want to increase it. Protein pump inhibitors, such as ranitidine block production of stomach acid completely, however it really messes up with your protein intake. Common pain killers, such as ibuprofen, aspirin mess with yiur stomach too

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XeroxCoolreply
lemmy.world

Does it burn? If I drink cold water, I tend to get esophageal spasms. My heart to my jaw gets this tension and pain, but it doesn't burn. It tends to be worse with normal sipping amounts rather than chugging like a hamster. It can happen with beer but for whatever reason, soda never causes it for me. Probably something about the drink rate or usually having soda at room temp. Not trying to tell you how your body works, just offering up info no one I know knows about.

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Yes it burns at the plexus and throat. I find it less so when I filter the (bottled) water in a brita filter (cartridged filters) but then it tastes funny. So I actually never drink water.

What is even weirder if I drink those water bottle with a slight hint of flavor, no reflux. Might be a mental problem?

I don't experience what you have.

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discuss.tchncs.de

This is all correct but it's missing freshly-squeezed orange juice over in A tier

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Gingernatereply
programming.dev

Really? How? Keg and c02? Do you add anything, like citric acid? Im a home brewer, I've got a kegerator set up with 3 kegs. I want to do one with carbonated water some time

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MintyAntreply
lemmy.world

Soda stream is just a CO2 bottle on cold water. It carbonates after an hour or so, or if you shake it.

A better option imo is to buy a big tank of C02 and connect it to a big tank of cold water which in turn has a tap. You probably have all that!

https://tasteofartisan.com/how-to-make-carbonated-water/

I personally found the taste of plain cold carbonated water.. actually good on its own. Otherwise you can add flavor like a canned seltzer would have.

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Gingernatereply
programming.dev

Yes I do have all of that, I may fill one of my 5 gallon kegs with just plain water and see how it goes. Thanks!

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My kegs are full of beer! A barleywine, a oatmeal porter and a ESB. I will probably try it in the summer when they are empty and it's too hot to brew

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I have a CO2 canister with a diy bottle cap. I use regular coke bottles for carbonating the water. It tastes good, but it is still destructive for your teeth.

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I've got a plain older countertop device with mini CO2 cartridges (with a cheap exchange program) for now. I am redoing my living room and study soon and will get a kegarator soon so I have it on tap.

I don't need the flavors infused. But if I'm feeling fancy I'll add a slice of lime or lemon, or both (usually when I need to use the rest of one after making dinner). Although it is my understanding this is certainly possible, adding flavours/syrups or what not.

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Gingernatereply
programming.dev

It's pretty normal. I'm american, it's common here with a little bit of flavor, but the unflavored or very light flavored ones are my favorite. In Europe a lot of times if you ordered water at a restaurant you would have to order "still water" or you would get sparkling water.

Edit: in the German speaking countries and countries around Germany anyway

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Years ago when I visited Germany (a hotel in Heidelberg), there happened to be another American in front of me at the hotel. He asked for water. The young woman behind the counter, knowing he was American from his language and accent, said: "Would you like any gasoline in your water?"

He was very confused, and I couldn't contain myself, bursting out in laughter. I stepped in and explained, she meant to say "gas" and was asking if he wanted still water or bubbly water. She knew most Americans didn't drink carbonated water, at least then -- a few years later brands like La Croix would sweep the country's soccer moms all over the States.

We Americans think it's funny but then I remember that these people know multiple languages and of course someone is going to get a word wrong here and there.

I also remember the four of us at dinner getting served waters and the waitress was saying "please" as she sat down each one on the coaster on the table. Which my understanding is that she was translating 'bitte' to English and that word has many meanings, one of them meaning please but can be used when your hand something over, if I'm not mistaken.

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I drink plenty of tap water..... I also like carbonated. different tastes I guess? Just because you don't like it doesn't mean others don't.

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r00tyreply
kbin.life

Not sure why I expected Paulaner Spezi to be some kind of ready-made Cola-Weizen.

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lemmy.ml

Water, coffee, whiskey, wine. Drink alcohol maybe once or twice a month, coffee and water daily.

All S tier.

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Kittenstixreply
lemmy.world

Hard disagree with whiskey.

How you gonna say wine and coffee then be hyper specific with what liquor? Just say liquor.

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lemmy.ml

There's just as much variation in whiskey as there is with wine and coffee, honestly.

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Kittenstixreply
lemmy.world

I mean there's just as much variation with gin, and gin is my s tier liquor, but it's not everyone's. That's my point.

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Ohhh, ok i misunderstood then, mb thought you were saying it should be everyone's

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sh.itjust.works

I have every confidence this is a gigabrain take that everyone will agree with

grappa should have its own sub-basement-shit-tier as both a liquor, alcoholic beverage and beverage in general.

fuck grappa. all my homies hate grappa

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But im sure there are people out there that would put grappa as their s-tier liquor, ultimately that was what I was trying to say, that by putting liquor as s-tier everyone can put their favorite in that slot.

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I have had grappa that sent me to another planet for the depth of flavor. I have never been able to actually find a bottle of good grappa and have long since given up. But I know that good grappa does exist

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Jorgelinoreply
lemmy.ml

Here's my own controversial take:

Any and all alcoholic beverages taste like garbage, people simply get used to the bad taste because they're expected to drink it and/or are alcoholics.

Countless times i've been offered drinks that "taste good", or that "you can barely taste the alcohol" and every single time they taste terrible. Even when there's a hint of flavor behind it all, it is utterly ruined by the taste of alcohol.

No amount of seasoning is gonna make your food taste good if you've already taken a dump on it.

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I can definitely see how you would feel that way, but for me, there's definitely a whole world of depth of flavor brought out via fermentation, which includes alcoholic beverages. I don't personally care for the alcohol content usually, but the flavor is truly unique and can be special.

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lemmy.world

I’d personally place tea on S and water on A. Tea is far too versatile. Water is great but tea hydrates just as much and has the potential to be much much more.

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rabreply
lemmy.ca

TIL that tea dehydrates you is a myth, just looked that up

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accideathreply
lemmy.world

Possibly depends a bit how you make it. If you make extremely strong black tea and then dump tons of sugar in it it’s definitely less refreshing than unsweetened mint tea for example. Tea, like most things in life, is a spectrum.

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Bobreply

You mean to say: Most things in life are, like tea, a spectrum.

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lemmy.world

I mostly agree, but I'm not drinking any sort of tea after a 10k. Water/tea/coffee is 95% of what I drink. Whole milk is 3%, and boba tea is another 1%. I'm ashamed to say I drink soda in social settings.

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lemm.ee

no shame in a good sodie pop once in a while

its everyday that it becomes horrible, for teeth and weight

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lemmy.world

I have the biggest weak spot for sarsparilla! Or if I find a microbrewery that makes any root beer~

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I'm not a soda drinker generally but microbreweries sodas are always so much better than anything the big three put out

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accideathreply
lemmy.world

I’d argue though, after a 10K, you’re not drinking for any other reason than hydration and in such cases water is always the best. But I’d argue that’s an edge case unless you’re a professional athlete or live in a very hot environment

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lemmy.world

Isn't... the exclusive reason to drink... hydration?

I mean if I was an avid reader in Sweden I could get by on tea/coffee exclusively. Most people will, on occasion, need to drink water to rehydrate.

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I also drink because I enjoy the taste. Some people drink coffee or energy drinks to stay awake. One can drink alcohol to get drunk. There are many reasons. Yes, hydration is almost always a present and desired effect but not always the reason.

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I didn't like tea until very recently. Apperently it took about 20 years for me to start liking tea

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

I'll be fighting with you

Edit: fighting with OP, how does someone think the opposite?

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lemmy.world

Great, but where does flavored sparkling water fall on this list?

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lemm.ee

You joke but I do actually drink my rum with a few drops of water

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Me too

Very chilly drops of water, in the shape of a cube.

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lemmy.world

I'd push water down to C or D level because I'm not sure what they put in this shit where I live, and I'd push low-alcoholic beer to S tier. It's how they did it in the old days and it carried us all into the future.

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lemmy.world

Tea is an A if you make it yourself and don't add any sugar (except maybe a slice of lemon). I do cold brew a lot in the warmer months, really hits the spot and doesn't taste like drinking corn syrup.

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I’d say tea is an S tier because it’s so versatile. You can have a mild herbal tea that‘s barely different to water over intense, naturally sweet fruit teas to ice tea so sweet it puts Lipton to shame. The choice is yours. Water is just water. Still very good, definitely A but it’s still just water…

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apfelschorle should be at least an A-Tier as well - best drink besides water, especially when you want some variety at some point.

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accideathreply
lemmy.world

I‘d argue on that but only because the quality of tap water can vary so immensely… Almost nothing beats good tap water but I’ve had tap water that was so godawful I’d rather drink almost anything else if there’s no way to filter it

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I'll give you that caveat. My brother lives in the rural town where we grew up in the butthole of Oklahoma, and his water is so hard that they justified spending thousands of dollars on a whole home water softening system. My in laws pump their own water and it's foul. I think they need to be filtering it. I think there's something in their groundwater.

As for the water in the urban and suburban parts of Oklahoma City, it's pretty hard to find truly bad tap water.

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I’m from Germany and I know no one that pumps their own water so I never had to deal with outright rancid water but the water at my mum‘s place is hard enough you can hold it without glass (slight exaggeration). They don’t have a home softening system but just a small filter can…

If I’m really thirsty I manage to drink maybe one and a half glasses before the taste hits…

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lemm.ee

I'm going to disagree. Water, alone, is about a B+, maybe an A-. If you've ever been working out really intensely, to the point where you feel nauseous and could drink a liter of water and still be desperately thirsty, then you'll understand that you also need to get electrolytes, things like sodium, potassium, and magnesium. The mineral content in plain water is too low for that; a sugar-free (preferably unsweetened) sports drink is going to be better for you than water alone.

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Unless you have a balanced diet that anticipates your workouts and gives you the proper amount of sodium, potassium and magnesium. Sports drinks are just selling you those at a big premium. Stick with water. Eat a banana.

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ryathalreply
sh.itjust.works

There's approximately 0% of people that actually need Gatorade/sports drinks, unless they were stranded without water for a prolonged period.

It was developed to help football players in Florida stay hydrated for the duration of a game. The conditions there are 90%+ humidity, and 80+ degrees while wearing full pads. Then being in that state for about 5 or so hours without eating.

No one really is exposed to that level of perspiration except athletes.

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Guess I'm an athlete then, because I badly deplete my electrolytes every time I'm backpacking on the AT.

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If you've ever been working out really intensely

Putting water alone back to S tier for ~100% of the population about 90-100% of the time :)

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I would put Polar Seltzer Water at A, all other selterzs at B, Dr Pepper at C, and the rest where they lie.

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I love me some cold water, but I love cold carbonated drinks EVEN MORE. Now what?

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Whenever I'm trying to enjoy myself, I wouldn't be drinking water, that is for sure.

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Mac
mander.xyz

Water has no sugar and isn't spicy. It's literally incomparable with soda.

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is it tho? it makes everyone who drinks it burp, id give it A tier

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If your food and drink doesn't hurt you, what's the point? basic nourishment? fuck that. gimme that ice cold burning water.

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lemmy.world

Water drinkers are so smug. So proud to be so boring that they drink only something that tastes of nothing. Unless you're absolutely parched and/or it's scorching outside, literally anything else that actually has a flavor is better.

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Maybe if it's not clean. The trace minerals in there make just about zero difference flavor wise.

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