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Settle This Argument--Is Iced Tea just Flavored Water?
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:49 pm
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:49 pm
I had this argument with a friend last night. I've basically cut out soda from my diet(even diet soda)and have been drinking a lot of water. Sometimes I get bored of just plain water and drink iced tea(especially in restaurants) or add Mio liquid water enhanceers to my water. My friend says drinking iced tea or water with an added substance detracts from water's health benefits.
Basically he told me that if I was required to drink 64oz of water a day and I drank 64oz of iced tea it would not be the same. I'm no chemist, but isn't tea or a mio flavored water, just flavored water? So still water, just flavored and therefore would still fulfill the requirements of drinking 64oz of water?
It's not like adding a tea bag and brewing changes the chemical composition of h2o.
Who is right?
Basically he told me that if I was required to drink 64oz of water a day and I drank 64oz of iced tea it would not be the same. I'm no chemist, but isn't tea or a mio flavored water, just flavored water? So still water, just flavored and therefore would still fulfill the requirements of drinking 64oz of water?
It's not like adding a tea bag and brewing changes the chemical composition of h2o.
Who is right?
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Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:50 pm to SirSaintly
so he could drink 64oz of coke too
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:50 pm to SirSaintly
By your logic, isn't everything just flavored water?
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:50 pm to SirSaintly
Well, depending on how caffeinated your tea is, it could act as a diuretic and not hydrate you as well as the same amount of plain old water.
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:50 pm to SirSaintly
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Is Iced Tea just Flavored Water?
yes
quote:
Sometimes I get bored of just plain water and drink iced tea(especially in restaurants)
me too. i've pretty much given up sodas and i drink water, coffee, and iced tea almost exclusively
i hate drinking water with meals. i don't know why.
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:50 pm to SirSaintly
Every drink is just flavored water then.
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:51 pm to SirSaintly
is coffee flavored water?
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:51 pm to SirSaintly
No
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:51 pm to SirSaintly
quote:
he told me that if I was required to drink 64oz of water a day and I drank 64oz of iced tea it would not be the same
he is right. Tea has caffiene (which dehydrates you) and the mio has artificial crap in it
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:53 pm to SirSaintly
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Basically he told me that if I was required to drink 64oz of water a day and I drank 64oz of iced tea it would not be the same.
He is right.
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:53 pm to Hot Carl
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By your logic, isn't everything just flavored water?
I love my whiskey flavored water
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:53 pm to SirSaintly
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Settle This Argument-
quote:
Is Iced Tea just Flavored Water
Should have never been an argument
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:54 pm to trident
You're going to have serious kidney problems if you drink 64oz of tea a day.
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:55 pm to fouldeliverer
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Every drink is just flavored water then.
How is vodka or orange juice flavored water?
The caffeine and dehydration thing makes sense now that someone has said it. So I get why tea or coffee, even though their technically just flavored water, wouldn't be the same as just drinking plain water.
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:56 pm to SirSaintly
No. And it's a diuretic.
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:58 pm to SirSaintly
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How is vodka or orange juice flavored water?
Chocolate milk flavored water
FTW
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:58 pm to GaryMyMan
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You're going to have serious kidney problems if you drink 64oz of tea a day.
Not going to drink that much tea or water. It was a hypothetical. Isn't that how much water doctor's say one should drink a day or something close to that?
Posted on 4/19/13 at 12:59 pm to SirSaintly
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Who is right?
Not you
Posted on 4/19/13 at 1:01 pm to GaryMyMan
quote:This is what I do every day. No kidney problems yet
....you drink 64oz of tea a day.
Posted on 4/19/13 at 1:08 pm to SirSaintly
I believe you are correct. For example, suppose you drank the 64 oz of water, then ate the tea leaves. Would that make the 64 oz of water somehow less effective?
The body doesn't give a poop how it's mixed, it'll separate the water from the tea anyway.
The body doesn't give a poop how it's mixed, it'll separate the water from the tea anyway.
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