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It seems that sometime since I started drinking it a year and a half ago, VitaminWater started to get big. It's always on endcap displays when I go to the store, Kelly Clarkson, Gilbert Arenas, and about four hundred other people endorse it now, et cetera. It's even impacted Coke, who is now selling a Diet Coke with added B vitamins in response. But has it spread its virus through CoN yet? Are you as addicted to it as I am?

I have to say, I adore the stuff. I love the packaging, with its simple Euro style, and there's about a half dozen flavors that really do it for me, most notably Power-C, XXX, and Defense. Plus it's kinda nice to get the added junk in there, too.

Please do sharing thoughts. Or check out http://vitaminwater.com/ if you're clueless.

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Let me put it this way.

Gatorade>>>>>>>Vitamin Water

I've only tried one flavor of vitamin water that I liked. And even with that being said, a lot of the food places I go to now have vitamin water instead of gatorade, like it's some type of replacement. Nothing can replace gatorade, especially not crappy flavor water. Yeah I hate vitamin water.

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Hmm, I've never heard of the stuff, or anything remotely like it. Or the Diet Coke with added B vitamins for that matter.
Personally I take a couple of zinc capsules every day, and I've hardly been ill since I started taking it, and have never had to take a sick day. So it does the job for me very well indeed.

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Quote (FallingHeart @ 3rd July 2007 13:05)

Let me put it this way.

Gatorade>>>>>>>Vitamin Water

I've only tried one flavor of vitamin water that I liked. And even with that being said, a lot of the food places I go to now have vitamin water instead of gatorade, like it's some type of replacement. Nothing can replace gatorade, especially not crappy flavor water. Yeah I hate vitamin water.

Amen.


I needn't say more except that their advertisements suck...

TRY GIVING A REACH AROUND TO A RABID HOWLER MONKEY
TRY OUR STUPID FLAVOR
TRY IT

Oh yeah? How about you try and not suck at making flavorful drinks!



But that's just my two cents

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Quote (FallingHeart @ 3rd July 2007 12:05)

Gatorade>>>>>>>Vitamin Water

Especially since they released Rain. I always liked Gatorade, but thought it was just a little too sweet and not refreshing enough to drink consistently. Rain solved both of those problems. All I drink is that and Arizona nowadays.

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Man, all you guys are ridiculous. VW is cheaper and has less sugar. And, dare I say it, is in fact better than Rain.

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Quote (Rangers51 @ 3rd July 2007 14:01)

Man, all you guys are ridiculous. VW is cheaper and has less sugar.

What? Over here it's at least 70 cents more expensive for a bottle of VW. Unless you buy in bulk it's like 2.20 a bottle, no joke. Even then who would buy toxic waste in bulk? But yeah it does have less sugar.

This post has been edited by FallingHeart on 3rd July 2007 22:24

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at my high school it is cheeper to get vitamin water instead of gatoraide. i dont like gatoraide unless im lifting weights or sports etc, otherwise it is too sugary.

i give my vote to vitamin water. favorite flavor := XXX!!! it might be one of the best tasting things i have ever had. and i like the little comments on the bottles. it gives me something to read in class.

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Never tried it. I have, however, seen it everywhere the last couple months. They even have vending machines for it now.

I've also seen the vitamin-added Coke. I'm staying away from that. Because, well, ew.

For now, Gatorade's at the top of my list.

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i'd advise anyone to try it though, since the flavors aren't just the normal. you know, grape, orange, strawberry, green-whatever, etc, just with special-sounding names to make it sound new. these are, for the most part, different flavors, some of which i like, and some that i, well, yeah. plus, you know, they've found a way to get vitamins in my body so that i dont even know its vitamin! other than the name, of course.

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I drink water, juice, gatorade, iced tea, and rarely soda. That's it.

1) Water comes from a faucet.
2) When you flavor or add stuff to water, it's no longer water. It's watered-down [noun].

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I'm a water drinker. Alll the way. Plain old water.

In a bold dieting move, I cut way back on sugary/fattening drinks.

Occasionally I dive in to juice, or an Arizona Iced Tea (which are pretty additive free.) Really, the only times I drink something other than water or Arizona is when I'm getting hammered. I like mixing the Half and Half/tea lemonade stuff Arizona makes. I do love my mixers. Even then, I always make sure if I'm drinking, that I down a glass or two of water every hour. (Gotta prevent those hangovers.)

And, unless I can't avoid it, I make it a point to never drink bottled water. It's pointless beyond belief. Bottled water is far less regulated than tap water.

I work in a supermarket, and I too noticed how much this stuff has taken off. People buy this stuff by the case. Personally, I've never liked Gatorade, Powerade, or any of the flavoured waters I've encountered. To be honest, I haven't been able to convince myself to spend the dollar-fifty on VM. And, seriously, I'm in no hurry.

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My mother started buying Vitamin Water, I presume because she needed the vitamins and the name drew her. I always was "meh" about it. I like it, for sure, but it's not my favorite. In the end, I suppose I don't really care what brand of drink I'm having, as long as it falls into the "good" category.

I will say that Dragonfruit (or whatever creative name they have for it) is delicious. But I'll have to disagree with price, it does seem a little expensive. Not sure exactly, though.

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Quote (Kappa the Imp @ 8th July 2007 11:43)

I will say that Dragonfruit (or whatever creative name they have for it) is delicious. But I'll have to disagree with price, it does seem a little expensive. Not sure exactly, though.

Dragonfruit is the same as the Power-C I mentioned. It is far and away the best.

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Quote (Death Penalty @ 3rd July 2007 20:36)

it gives me something to read in class.

Are you an exceptionally slow reader, DeathPenalty?

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Maybe it's not in Canada (or at least, not in PEI), but I haven't seen it yet. If I spot it next time I'm out, I'll try some. Can anyone else from Canada confirm that it's here?

We do have flavoured water by Aquafina. You can get it in flavours like raspberry, grapefruit, and I think blueberry.

Edit: After navigating through the site for a bit, I've found they're not in Canada yet. US only.

This post has been edited by Elena99 on 8th July 2007 17:26

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I don't like the fact that there's so much sugar in this stuff. Sports drinks in general are just glorified soda, and there have to be better ways to get your vitamins.

That being said, I'd probably be a sucker for this stuff if I didn't refuse to drink things with calories.

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Quote (karasuman @ 8th July 2007 15:17)

I don't like the fact that there's so much sugar in this stuff.  Sports drinks in general are just glorified soda, and there have to be better ways to get your vitamins.

Well, Gatorade/Powerade and all its derivatives do have electrolytes lacking in plain water. They're sports drinks, meant to replenish all that you lose when sweating. The extra calories give a nice little kick too. So is there a better way to get them while on the run? I can't imagine it.

Gatorade tastes like watered-down kool-aid to me though, so it's really a step down from soda.

Vitamin water is not a sports drink though. It occupies this halfway point between mineral water and sports drink that Crystal Light used to dominate. I tried Vitamin Water instead of Gatorade once and it wasn't much better than chugging from the hose.

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Quote (Elena99 @ 8th July 2007 12:21)

Maybe it's not in Canada (or at least, not in PEI), but I haven't seen it yet. If I spot it next time I'm out, I'll try some. Can anyone else from Canada confirm that it's here?

We do have flavoured water by Aquafina. You can get it in flavours like raspberry, grapefruit, and I think blueberry.

Edit: After navigating through the site for a bit, I've found they're not in Canada yet. US only.

Yeah I was wondering what all the hulabaloo was about too. In Canada we do have flavoured water, but it has one heck of a nasty aftertaste. Aspertane I think.

I've always found that bottled water has WAY too much sodium. Even flavoured water comes off tasting salty to me. Blech. Not refreshing at all.

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Vitamins?, Good. Water?, Good. VitaminWater?, Gross!. Honestly I've tried to drink it, but it doesn't stay down. I'm sorry skipper, I just can't stand it.

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I used to drink Vitamin water all the time when I worked out alot but when I started back to school I got to busy to work out and I stopped drinking it so much... after awhile the taste got kind of old to me...

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Are you an exceptionally slow reader, DeathPenalty?

haha no.

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Vitamins?, Good. Water?, Good. VitaminWater?, Gross!. Honestly I've tried to drink it, but it doesn't stay down. I'm sorry skipper, I just can't stand it.

i can't tell the difference. it just tastes like flavored whatever.

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Quote (Elessar @ 8th July 2007 17:41)

Vitamin water is not a sports drink though. It occupies this halfway point between mineral water and sports drink that Crystal Light used to dominate. I tried Vitamin Water instead of Gatorade once and it wasn't much better than chugging from the hose.

I agree. VitaminWater has no where near the utility that Gatorade does. If anything, VitaminWater is just another flavored drink with a unique and slightly healthy novelty. Gatorade just plain works.

There definitely is a difference in taste between VitaminWater and flavored water drinks, for me. VitaminWater tastes like a stand-alone drink... a "soda" type flavor. Flavored Water, like that Dasani water with strawberry or whatever, is terribly watered down (or surgary-water, depending on how you think [is the glass half full or half empty?]). While the flavored water stuff should technically taste more like water, to me it tastes a lot more fake than VitaminWater or Gatorade does. I guess I'm all about totality -- gimme water, or gimme sugar, nothing in between.

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I find your lack of faith disturbing...

Who put the bump in the thready thready thread? I did because I finally found some cans of VitaminEnergy at the store when I was there a half hour ago. It's really just VitaminWater with caffeine and carbonation, but adding those things might make you guys like it more. I'm finishing off a Dragonfruit right now, and I can at least guarantee that it's a LOT better than drinking a Red Bull.

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I drink regular water and so should you.

Quote (FraudulentTommah @ 10th January 2008 13:20)

I drink regular water and so should you.

Maybe everything works backwards for you and if you drank sugar water you'd actually lose some weight.

Still don't buy VitaminWater regularly, but I cop that XXX flavor whenever I can.

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I find your lack of faith disturbing...

I finally got to try it, as a free sample at the grocery store. It's alright, but tastes very diluted. If gatorade or something more flavourful like that had close to the same nutrients, I think I'd go for that instead.

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I had an old signature. Now I've changed it.

My friends swear by VitaminWater, but I've never tried it. But I do enjoy Sobe Life Water. The only flavor I like is the Blackberry Grape. The rest taste way watered down.

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I did a project in my health class a few years back about how the name vitamin water (just vitamin water in general) is just a ruse to get people to buy the product even if it's only slightly more expensive than regular water. It's more practical to just buy your vitamins and drink water separately rather than combining the two. I would much rather just purchase regular bottled water rather than purchase something with sugar in it. I am a sucker for the orange Vitamin Water, though. Their advertising sucks monkey butt, though.

On a side note, I suppose if I am going to drink something sweet, I'd rather just get something like orange juice rather than Gatorade or Vitamin Water.

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yeah, so this year, for some reason, they stopped carrying vitamin water at my school. supposedly, this is because it doesn't fit nutrition guidlines (which are a load of crud to begin with)! how does vitamin water not meet nutrition guidelines?!?

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