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Hm apparently soda streamed water is way worse for your teeth than I thought

It has a ph level of about 4.7 to 5.1. Regular tap water can be as low as 6.5. As I'm sure everyone know, 7 is ideal, and a ph of 5 is ten times more acidic than a ph of 6. So if your water has the ph of 4.9, soda streamed water is about 40 times more acidic than tap water... yeh 👀

But apparently it's not only the acidity of a chemical that's important, but also it's composition. For example a ph of 4.9 of a water that has diluted carbonic acid in it decays teeth slower than phosphoric acid of the same ph (partly of what you'll find in cola).

From what I could gather, unflavoured fizzy water decays teeth faster than normal water (naturally, I would expect about 40 times faster), but it decays teeth 100s of times slower than a typical soda with a lower ph and sugar added.

It does make you think about all the times you drink fizzy water after brushing your teeth tho
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
I'm glad I don't like carbonated drinks and fizzy water. I don't get why in some countries it's harder to find normal water than carbonated and flavoured. I've drank tap water from questionable places tbh 😬 but I'm good hahahah
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
@MartinTheFirst yeah true but my tap water is great fortunately, I'm sure not as good as up there though
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@HannibalAteMeOut 🤔 ours is fantastic, but not as great as up in Finland 😾, haha.
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
@MartinTheFirst If I went to Finland I'd just collect snow from the streets and use it for water, I bet it's cleaner than what I shower with
Carbon is acidic. But that is interesting that there is so much of it in sodastreamed drinks in comparison to soda.
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@Ozymandiaz It's also radioactive! Yeah it is, especially since it's sooooo diluted. Only about 0.073% of the solution is acid
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
I sort of half remember that from chemistry lessons at school. We did an experiment with coca cola that stopped most of us from ever wanting to drink it again 😬
I'm curious to test my pH levels

 
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