Essentia 1 Liter Bottled Water; 99.9% Pure, Infused with Electrolytes for a Smooth Taste, pH 9.5 or Higher; Ionized Alkaline Water

Good water

Just the idea of drinking plain water is abhorrent to me. And sure, I've done the fruit infused thing, but who has the time to do that or the money? Not me. Our water comes from a well and it's ok, if you like drinking water. I don't. But I've been having muscle cramps in my legs and feet for weeks. The charlie horse, growing pain type cramps. The kind where my big toe tries it's wish bone imitation or all my toes squish together like a toe orgy. It starts in one foot and after a few minutes it subsides... Only to start again in the other foot. Total agony!!! I've tried muscle relaxers, anti inflammatories, drinking tomato juice, and even soaking my feet in water and apple cider vinegar. And massaging coconut oil with apple cider vinegar into my feet. Desperate? Who me. Nothing worked. I was thinking amputation, and then my brother who knows all said "drink 8 glasses of water a day" and I'm like "I already do. It's in my coffee." And then I remembered ESSENTIA. I first started drinking this water when I lived in Arizona. I used to go into one of those health food stores (hey, it was next to my work and they had a huge salad bar...) and one day they were offering free samples... Of water. I'm like, "no, I don't drink water" and she says "because of the after taste?" And I said yes. She said "then try this." It was like drinking wet, smooth, liquid air. Zero after taste. It has electrolytes, and it quenches my thirst. I used to have to find a health food store to order Essentia for me. And now I find it on Amazon. And what's really great, is it's cheaper than what I paid the health food stores and it arrived a day earlier than they said it would. I've drank almost half of a bottle so far today (and no brother, I didn't use it to make my coffee!) But, hmmmm....

Taste good and portable size for outing.

This is an interesting product. It has a "soft, lubricating" feel to it. Can't tell from the ingredients why. I don't detect a particular taste. I recommend this product for those who have a particular need for an alkaline (opposite of acidic) liquid, or additional electrolytes. Keep in mind this is $5 a gallon water. The body regulates electrolytes very closely. Those are the names that contain the words like calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and sodium. Most people get all they need from food. Even if you have a crummy diet, these molecules are very plentiful in food. Even fast food. High activity can cause a temporary shortage. And liquids like this and Gatorade are quick replenishers. Humans evolved, and there are 6 billion of them now, on free water. Still want $5 a gallon water? (If you don't have acid reflux there's no reason to read below). People with acid reflux have a problem with one or both valves in the esophagus. Healthy valves keep the acid in the stomach. If it backs up into the esophagus, it burns the tissue. Essentia being alkaline can help neutralize the acid in the esophagus, reducing the inflammation and sores. I have L-P reflux. The M.D. said it's not curable. I've seen the endoscopic pictures. I'm out to prove him wrong. (I can't if the valves are permanently damaged, but he doesn't know if they are. He's never looked at them. I reason that the acid can't be kind to the valves either). I proved an ENT wrong 20 years ago when he said I had to have a lesion laser-ed off my vocal chord. He said it would never cure. The cost of that made me think hard. I quit all of the peppermints and salsa I came to love six months earlier when I quit smoking. He knew of that. I quit abusing myself with that, and the lesion self-healed. I'm also utilizing a probiotic(fancy word for friendly bacteria) and Greek yogurt (yum) just in case there's some bacterial in-balance in my stomach. And I'm self-medicating with a logical Rx. I can't go into that because it's my own unproven science. I drink 5 mugs of 50-50 coffee (5 x 8oz). My ph strip indicated it takes one Tums to neutralize the acid per mug. Acids (like in lemonade) contribute to the pleasure of a lot of liquids. So I chew up a Tums before each cup so it's there to neutralize the excess acid as it hits. So as far as the stomach is concerned it's coffee flavored water. PPIs don't work very well so I stopped them. Why bother? And during the day I sip Essentia to neutralize any acid that might have backed up. The symptoms stopped entirely for a couple of months last fall, but came back for unknown reasons. I've only used one bottle of Essentia, but I think it helps. It's still way to early to tell.

Will purchase again

Love this water. My ex used to drink it and i found it delicious too.

Don't order this from Amazon. My bottles arrive constantly crushed and broken. I had a subscription for year and I finally just canceled it because I can't take it anymore and they won't do anything about it. I'll start getting it from the grocery store again and pay a little more. Amazon just throws it in a box with a piece of brown paper and then the Amazon fleet delivery drivers drop it on my stairs and break bottles constantly. Anyway, onto the actual review... The taste is highly fresh and clean, natural tasting, not bitter or chemical tasting whatsoever unlike other similar products. It's in a BPA free bottle but honestly it gets a nasty plastic chemical taste if it gets too warm for too long (think sun / near heater), so I'm sure it's leeching something. I keep it in a backpack or in glass or steel thermos if I'm going in the sun. Pretty much all I drink is water. Essentia is more hydrating than anything I've ever tried, and I'm somewhat ashamed to admit ($$$) but this is all I've drank in the last two years because my town's tap water is full of nasty chems. This is the water I've settled on. Regular water doesn't do it for me, I need four times (or more) as much than I do with this, and this also absorbs better. I was concerned about receiving it in the mail and having it taste differently from storage/transport but it does not as long as it's not left in the sun or snow. I wish 5 gallon bottles existed because I order 4 cases each month with subscription and it occupies a lot of space in my house. Lastly, I've tested the pH and it is "9.5 pH or higher" as advertised.