Interesting facts about reverse osmosis technology

Water for baby food, germ formation in drinking water...etc.

water for baby food

Reverse osmosis-purified "baby water" is offered in Tetra Pak by a well-known baby food manufacturer. The baby food manufacturer's nutrition experts are certain: water for small children should contain as few minerals as possible. Their kidneys have to work particularly hard due to their rapid growth and are only unnecessarily stressed by a high content of inorganic salts. The supply of minerals is guaranteed to a much greater extent by solid food than would ever be possible with water. In water, the vital calcium forms an inorganic bicarbonate, which the body cannot absorb in this form. In food, the calcium is bound to carbon and is thus bioavailable. You can make your own baby water with our systems for around 3 cents per liter!

Reverse osmosis is now the industry standard - also in Germany. In the USA, large bottling plants have been operating on the basis of reverse osmosis for many years. Bonaqua from Coca-Cola is just one example. There are many applications - e.g. the inexpensive production of excellent water - instead of carrying heavy crates of mineral water. The popular soda makers are operated with bacteriologically clean water, which also reduces the dangerous contamination of the soda. Coffee and tea taste excellent.

The aging process of cells is stopped by removing mineral deposits.

germ formation in drinking water

The formation of germs is minimized by using glass/stainless steel as a storage medium. However, the risk of germs forming in the water is relative, as these are not pathogenic germs. Milk and meat products, juices, but above all our saliva and oral mucous membranes contain significantly more germs than even warm brackish water. There is a small risk of secondary contamination in the storage medium, depending on the storage period and temperature, but this is also prevented in our devices by a downstream activated carbon filter block.

bioavailability of minerals in water

Minerals must be present in combination with other minerals and vitamins in order to be properly absorbed by the body. For example, calcium absorption is only guaranteed as organic calcium phosphate. Pure calcium carbonate, such as that found in hard water, is deposited in human cells, forming the "anchor" for so-called arteriosclerotic plaques, kidney and bladder stones and must first be converted back into calcium phosphate in order to be stored in the bone deposits. This is done, for example, by the energy molecule ATP (adenosine triphosphate), which is present in large quantities in fruit.Is bottled water sensible and still ecologically acceptable?Over the past decade, mineral water has become a lifestyle product throughout Europe. The German mineral water industry alone filled a total of 18.5 billion bottles in 2005, with sales of 7.6 billion euros - and the trend is rising.

Germany a fountain country?

Every year, 27,000,000,000 bottles are transported (not counting the French and Italian ones!). Everyone can estimate for themselves how much of the traffic jams on German motorways are caused by these transports, as well as the amount of energy used in the process. But it would be so easy and inexpensive to produce the required amount at home.It is understandable that the 242 German mineral water operators are gradually becoming concerned about the environment. Environmental campaigns, sponsorship, environmentally friendly label adhesives and bottle cleaning, and large-scale cleaning systems in the bottling plants are supposed to help us get over the question of the sense and nonsense of the "sparkling salt water" business?

The lobby argument of many mineral water manufacturers and waterworks operators that "vital minerals" are essential is simply a successful advertising scam. Mineral water contains them in nutritionally insignificant quantities. For example, potassium: daily requirement according to the DGE: 3000-4000 mg; dissolved in mineral water: usually less than 10 mg per liter. For example, the important calcium - in 10°dH hard water, there are just 100 mg of inorganic calcium oxide (CaO) in one liter. Children have a minimum requirement of around 1000 mg/day. Based on your water hardness, calculate the number of liters that would have to be drunk per day to cover the minimum requirements of the entire family. Minerals also only become bioavailable when they are present in balanced proportions and organically bound - as is usual in mineral supplements. Example: In one liter of milk, there are 1200 mg of calcium in organically bound form.

Therefore, don't believe everything that advertising promises you. Especially when it comes to your diet and therefore your health.

Read on to find out what advantages a reverse osmosis system can offer you.