Glacéau Smartwater
I can’t believe I’m about to post a review about WATER, because seriously, it’s WATER. It’s water that comes in an expensive plastic container. A container that holds, wait for it, WATER.
You’d think the most notable thing you could mention about the taste of any particular brand of water would be the lack thereof, but this is why I love this stupid water so much: it tastes really, really good. In a watery, thirst-quenching, non-taste kind of way. It’s called Smartwater, or SmartWater, or smartwater—I have no idea which, because the manufacturer has one of those awful websites that provides almost no function or information, just an ever-moving hunk of “brand-imation”. (I totally just made that word up, but it’s perfect, isn’t it?)
Apparently Smartwater is vapor-distilled, whatever that means (I would tell you, but the website just has a bunch of malarky about about kittens and clouds), and includes electrolytes. All I know is that it tastes amazingly good, even better than my previous favorite, the soothing blue Dasani.
It’s annoying, badly marketed (despite Jennifer Aniston), and expensive. But sadly, also DELICIOUS.
Link: Smartwater on Amazon
Ballpark price: $1.50 per bottle
Posted: September 5th, 2007 under Cooking/Food, Personally recommended by Linda, Diet/Fitness.
Comments: 19
Comments
Comment from thejunebug
Time: September 5, 2007, 3:41 pm
Ah, Linda, you DO know that Dasani is bottled tap water, right? From Los Angeles, I believe.
Comment from Linda
Time: September 5, 2007, 3:44 pm
Comment from hello insomnia
Time: September 5, 2007, 4:11 pm
Can you really taste a difference with water? I hope so because I heard on the water diet, you can have all the water you want.
Comment from Lorissa
Time: September 5, 2007, 4:30 pm
It really is great water! I’ve always gone for “spring” water instead of the bottled tap waters, but really they all taste kind of funny!
The smart water has such a clean taste, and doesn’t seem to have all the additives like dasani that make such a weird mouth feel (almost drying).
Smart water is by far the best water I’ve had–despite the marketing…also Fiji brand spring water is great.
Comment from jonniker
Time: September 5, 2007, 5:34 pm
Fiji is the only water I can taste a difference in. It’s very … soft, or something. Other than that, I drink vaguely filtered tap water from our fridge, which is so unhip, but there it is.
Lorissa — Dasani has additives? Other than the mysterious mineral blend? I mean, I knew it was tap water, but still.
Comment from vague
Time: September 5, 2007, 5:48 pm
Oh man, I love that smartwater! I can’t remember why I tried it, but once I did it became my favorite instantly. I cant find it in the town I just moved to, though, and had (almost) forgotten about it. Now I really want some, damnit!
Comment from Jenny H.
Time: September 5, 2007, 6:37 pm
Actually, it is kind of a running joke that Dasani is water from the good ol’ Hootch. As in Chattahoochee. Just thinking that could be a possibility is horrifying. If anyone has ever been to Georgia, they will totally back me up on this!
I love Fiji water. So much. I want to try the new stuff though. I read/heard it was awesome.
Comment from Jamie :)
Time: September 5, 2007, 11:28 pm
I agree…it’s silly to say that one bottled water tastes better over another, but SERIOUSLY, SmartWater is AMAZING! I’ve even tested it’s thirst-quenching powers by drinking from my 3-gallon Arrowhead ‘fridge dispenser and my delicately-tall Smartwater bottle, and smartwater is way more refreshing. The Arrowhead, which used to be alright (Dasani was also my prior favorite), now seems to choke me if I drink more than a Dixie cup full.
Comment from thejunebug
Time: September 6, 2007, 2:42 am
jenny, I actually live in Atlanta. 
I can’t remember what article it was that I read, but I do really seem to recall their water came from the LA reservoir.
Now, the sick one is that my hubby is a city planner, and knows where all the sewer lines end up in various places…. you might want to check that fecal count in your Dasani, is all I’m sayin. Heh.
Comment from Jenny
Time: September 6, 2007, 6:17 am
My husband was somewhere recently that proudly displayed its own bottled water for sale and he looked at the ingredient list and it said: “tap water.” He brought one home to show me.
I heart the smartwater too, and I’m just paranoid enough to suspect that in a few years we’ll learn that “vapor-distilled” is code for “Chinese imported lead paint treatment” or something.
Comment from Judie Ashford
Time: September 6, 2007, 9:39 am
I presume “vapor-distilled” is just distilled water. Isn’t that how it is done? We have our own distiller (for about 20 years now!). I pour water in the top, it boils and turns to vapor, which then condenses in the coils and drips into the gallon jug under the outflow port. Pretty simple operation. I keep several gallons in the kitchen, a vacuum bottle of it in the car, and a couple of refilled Dasani (or whatever) bottles full in the mesh water holders of our backpacks.
This helps to cut down on the production and disposal of so many containers, and the fuel expended by shipping water from “there” to “here”.
judie
Comment from GoingLoopy
Time: September 6, 2007, 12:35 pm
I actually like Evian. Is that wrong? Fiji’s good too, and I may have to try some SmarTwaTer. But bascially, I just drink tap water out of the tap, because I am cheap as hell….and if it’s cold enough (via ice cubes), I don’t really notice that it does, in fact, taste like shit. I should get a Brita, or something….
Comment from serror
Time: September 6, 2007, 5:27 pm
SmartWater does taste better! Amazingly better! Dasani and Aquafina are just filtered tap water from your local Pepsi or Coke plant. I agree that Fiji water tastes great, but it has a bad bad impact on the environment, if you are one to worry about that. Check it out:
http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/askpablo-exotic-bottled-water-002401.php
Comment from Meredith
Time: September 7, 2007, 5:05 am
Et Tu, Sundrybuzz?
Bottled water is bad for the earth! Even the people in Fiji don’t have reliable drinking water. But we ship theirs around the world to enjoy it.
Drink tap water! Refill your own container!
Comment from Linda
Time: September 7, 2007, 8:42 am
BTW, I think refilling a plastic container over and over is supposed to be Bad For You. Maybe a Nalgene is the way to go there?
Comment from Kiwi
Time: September 7, 2007, 5:37 pm
Dasani contains water, magnesium sulfate, potassium chloride, and salt. Yea. It’s salt water. How refreshing…
Refilling plastic bottles that they sell in stores over and over starts to break down the plastic and it releases harmful chemicals (go over to Slate.com and they just did an article about water bottles).
And personally, Smartwater is my hangover cure. I
Comment from mle
Time: September 14, 2007, 1:42 pm
I first tried this when the Superhero and I were training for a marathon back in very early 2004. It made me feel so much better after a long run than either gatorade (blech) or plain water - it’s like gatorade, only without flavoring, and it tastes good! Lucky for me, my best friend now works for this company and has cases of smartwater delivered to my house on a regular basis and I don’t pay a dime.
Comment from Erica Anderson
Time: September 14, 2007, 7:27 pm
I ADORE SmartWater. The website is terrible and I have an AWFUL time finding the stuff around here, but it is so good, it is worth it.
Comment from tanya
Time: September 16, 2007, 8:02 pm
smartwater really is different. I noticed it the first time I drank it, and it has saved my ass in more than one Bikram class. I love it - thanks for noticing. I hope everyone does.
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