Thinking vitamin water products are natural health drinks that enhance the benefits of drinking water is like believing that colorful candy is healthy because it is fat free. To boost the benefits of drinking water, it is a good idea to search online for natural health drinks that contain live enzymes, real whole food nutrients, and alkaline ingredients. 

What is really in those bottles of vitamin water and are they health drinks? The big selling point for a bottle of kiwi-strawberry vitamin water suggests it will somehow enhance "focus". The first attraction is that this brightly colored water looks like pink cotton candy. Next, the focus is on what is missing from the ingredients list for these health drinks, not one mention of real strawberry or kiwi, only "natural flavor". In fact, the label on this nutrient enhanced beverage states that it contains less than 1% fruit juice. Upon closer inspection, it is quite evident that these vitamin water health drinks are really just colored waters with artificially created vitamins and sweeteners.

One astounding nutrition fact to notice on the label of this enhanced vitamin water is that each bottle contains 2.5 servings, which is where the total amount of sugar in one bottle can be deceiving. The nutrition fact label reveals 13g of sugar, but that is the amount per serving. Multiply 13g times 2.5 servings and that makes 32.5 grams of sugar in each bottle, more than most any other drink, including sodas. The first ingredient listed for this particular vitamin water, after the de-mineralized water, is crystalline fructose, which might best be described as modified corn starch. That is what this chemically created pink drink tastes like, liquid sugar, only with less to like and more of a chemical aftertaste. I could only handle a few sips before beginning to clearly focus on how these health drinks do not enhance the benefits of drinking water. 

Look closely at the vitamins in these vitamin water health drinks. According to the label, each serving contains 10% of your daily requirements for Vitamins A, B3, B6, B12, and B5 plus a deceivingly inflated 40% of your daily allowance of Vitamin C. The issue is that these vitamins are not from any whole foods resembling real strawberries or kiwis. Remember, those whole foods were absent from the ingredients list. Therefore, the live enzymes necessary to help the body use those vitamins are not there. Nutrition facts reveal that whole foods like raw fruits and vegetables include live enzymes, which act as catalysts for vitamins and minerals to work in the body. Without those whole food properties in health drinks, vitamins are not easily absorbed and are more than likely eliminated as waste. So, how many of those vitamins in vitamin water are actually being put into use by the body? 

This is why it is wise to look past vitamin water sales gimmicks and celebrity endorsements, read carefully about ingredients, learn about health drinks with live enzymes, whole foods, and how the body absorbs nutrients. If you are serious about wellness and want something superior to a vitamin water gimmick, search the web. Look online for nutrition facts about whole foods and natural health drinks that really do enhance the benefits of drinking water, or anything else you are putting in your body.

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