Art of drink electrolyte mineral water formula

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One cool fact about the soda fountain was that they originally had a thriving business selling mineral waters and even had formulas to replicate natural spring water mineral content because shipping water across an ocean to America was prohibitively expensive.

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The key issues are calcium and magnesium reacting with carbonates (and phosphates) to form insoluble calcium and magnesium carbonate, basically chalk

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This is the key to formulating your own mineral and electrolyte waters. You can’t mix different mineral salts together and expect them to stay the same; they, more often than not, react with one another to form different compounds. Creating different flavour profiles, as well as the aforementioned insolubility issues.

Sourcing Mineral Salts

Finding mineral salts is quite easy. Here is a quick list of places to find salts: - Sodium Bicarbonate - grocery store, called baking soda (not baking powder) - Magnesium Sulphate - pharmacy, often used as a bath salt, though approved for internal use - Calcium Sulphate - gypsum, which is common at homebrew stores and is used to make tofu - Potassium Bicarbonate - found at health food stores or online and is a good source of potassium - Citrate and amino acid salts are easily found online. For many ingredients, my go-to source is Bulk Supplements, which ship to the US and Canada, possibly elsewhere.