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Can you Drink Distilled Water ?

Distilled water is basically steam from boiling water that’s been cooled and returned to its liquid state. There are some people who claim distilled water to be the purest water that one can drink (Blades, 2020).

All water, regardless of where it comes/originates from, whether it is a natural spring, well, tap, or other, will have trace and safe amounts of minerals, bacteria, pesticides, and other contaminants. Distilling water gets rid of all those impurities, and basically strips of everything else, in the end pretty much remains H2O Hydrogen and Oxygen (Blades, 2020).

Can we drink distilled water? Well according to a lot of reliable sources, including Healthline, says that you can drink distilled water, but most likely you might not like the taste of the water as it will be absolutely flat, as it contains no minerals at all. There are some sources that claim that drinking distilled water will help detoxify your body or improve your health, whereas there are other claims like distilled water leaches minerals from your body and could put your health at risk, and none of these claims are entirely true (Watson, 2019).

Since distilled water is extremely pure, and is free of contaminants like bacteria, viruses, protozoa like giardia, and chemicals like lead and sulphate, it is commonly used in medical facilities and laboratories. Though drinking distilled water is not as common as drinking other types of purified water, some people choose to drink it because it is free of any contaminants (Jillian Kubala, 2018)

Water has a significant impact on the taste profile of your cup (of coffee and in fact tea too). Imagine diluting an espresso with hot water to make an americano, all you would expect is that the hot water should taste good, to make a good americano. (Now imagine extracting the coffee itself with some good water). When you use water to extract coffee from the ground beans, you want to have some potent mineral ions like magnesium and calcium, for example, that can travel inside the bean’s cellulose walls and come back with all the compounds that give the great taste to a cup of coffee (Gagne, 2018).

But getting a mineral composition in the right ratio is very critical so that the resulting taste in the cup is soothing and favorable. Using a blank canvas, here that’s the distilled water, we can paint it with our proportion of paint (minerals and salts), so that you have a perfect starting point and extract the best potential of the coffee in your cup, with relative ease.

 By the way

Here’s a link if you were curious, how and can you make distilled water at home: https://home.howstuffworks.com/green-living/how-to-make-distilled-water.htm

 

Works Cited

Blades, N. (2020, July 01). Distilled Water.

Retrieved from WebMD: https://www.webmd.com/diet/distilled-water-overview


Watson, S. (2019, June 28). Can you drink Distilled water?

Retrieved from www.Healthline.com: https://www.healthline.com/health/can-you-drink-distilled-water

 

Jillian Kubala, M. R. (2018, March 01). Purified vs Distilled vs. Regular Water: What's the Difference? 

Retrieved from www.Healthline.com: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/purified-vs-distilled-vs-regular-water

 

Gagne, J. (2018, 12 16). Water for Coffee Extraction.

Retrieved from www.coffeeadastra.com: https://coffeeadastra.com/2018/12/16/water-for-coffee-extraction/

 

 

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