- Ah, this one tastes weird.
- That was by far the smoothest one. I would finish this up.
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- (FBE) Today, we're gonna have you do a taste test.
- A taste test. What else is happening here?
Am I blindfolded?
- Oh gosh, I'm excited for this. I really wanna eat something.
I'm hungry.
- (FBE) We're gonna have you try a few different types
of water. - Water?
- (FBE) And you have to tell us if you can notice
any difference in taste. - Water.
You guys are gonna give me Arrowhead
and I'm gonna be like, "Nope."
- This is a widely debated topic.
Everyone talks about this.
- Water tastes different. There are different types of water.
People are like, "Water tastes the same."
No, it does not.
- Is this why you guys asked if my immune system was good?
What's this about my immune system? What are you gonna do to me?
- (FBE) You have four different types of water with you,
labelled 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D' and you're gonna try
one at a time and let me know what you think of each one.
- Okay.
- Let's start with 'A.' 'A' looks normal.
Looks like water.
- No discernible aftertaste.
- Okay. Just tastes like water.
- It goes straight to my head and it give me a nerve
to stop drinking.
- (FBE) What kind of water do you think that is?
- Kirkland?
- Arrowhead.
- Definitely tap water.
- I'm gonna go with Fiji.
- I don't think this is tap water, but it's definitely puri--
it could be tap if it was through one of those purifier things.
I guess I'll go with purified tap.
- That tasted like some good water, so I'm gonna say Fiji.
- (FBE) Okay, try 'B.' - Okay.
This is like wine tasting but for kids.
- Now that's Arrowhead. No wait, guys, wait.
One second. Tastes like tap.
- I couldn't tell you. This also tastes like bottled water.
- Ah, this one tastes weird. This is definitely Arrowhead.
I hate the taste of Arrowhead. I can't drink Arrowhead
water bottles. It's so disgusting.
- I think that one's tap. It has a mineral aftertaste.
- I actually wanna say this is Arrowhead.
- That one's tap. There's some sort of chemical in it.
That's what I'm sensing from it.
- This one has some bubbles in it.
- This water's so crisp.
- I would drink this. This is good water.
It's not bad.
- These two are similar. This one kinda had a taste.
These two didn't.
- It's better than this one. I'm saying Sparkletts.
These two taste similar, but I like this one the best.
So far, 'C's a winner.
- I think this is tap water only by the notion
that it has bubbles in it.
- I'm gonna go with this tap.
- It's like Boxed Water. When it's cold,
it has a certain taste to it.
- I think that's bottled water. Is it Smartwater or something?
I don't know.
- What's an even fancier one than Fiji?
What, some Voss up in here?
- I'm not getting any bad signals.
- That one has a taste, an aftertaste to it.
- Yeah, see, 'D' was smooth. This is smooth as [bleep].
- I don't know what that is. That just feels like--
if I could say something was plain water,
that would be it.
- It has a subtle aftertaste. Not bad, in my opinion,
but has an aftertaste.
- Tastes just bland. Nothing to it.
No mineral or whatever stuff in it.
It doesn't taste like sugar water. It doesn't taste like any
other kind of water. Shot in the dark.
Dasani?
- Aquafina.
- I would guess Smartwater.
- Is this the Kirkland water bottles?
- That might be electrolyte water.
I don't know.
- That one, I'm gonna go Dasani, 'cause I feel like a lot
of people don't like that and that left a weird taste in my mouth.
- (FBE) We're gonna go ahead and say how many
you guessed right. - None.
That's my guess. - (FBE) You actually guessed
one correctly. - I did?
- (FBE) The water in glass 'A' is Fiji Water.
- Fiji, Fiji. Wait, then this one's Smartwater.
- Oh, okay, that's why. I don't drink Fiji,
'cause I always see it in hotels.
It's like five dollars if you pick it up.
- No way! I just guessed that
because I like the name.
- (FBE) The pH level to measure water quality is really
a measure of the relative amount of free hydrogen
and hydroxyl ions in the water. The grading scale
is from one to fourteen and the best rating is a seven.
- Seven, yeah. Seven's neutral.
- (FBE) So, Fiji Water has a pH level of 7.7.
- Wow, tastes nasty, but wow.
- Interesting, I didn't know that all that went into water.
I guess when you just drink water, you just think "Water."
- I don't know if that means it's healthy or non-healthy,
but it wouldn't stop me from drinking it.
- (FBE) So, the water in glass 'B' is tap water.
- Ah, no wonder why it tastes nasty.
- Did I get that right? - (FBE) That was your guess.
- Yes. It's appealing.
It's water. Water's water,
but it's my least favorite water.
- Well I have heard that L.A. tap water
is some of the best filtered water in the U.S.
- (FBE) So, LADWP claims the water
is completely safe to drink any place in the U.S.
from the tap. Some areas, the water
tastes better than others, but it is all technically safe,
however, it seems everyone in L.A. continues to drink
bottled water anyway. - Yes, that is very, very gross.
- I feel like if you're given water in a bottle,
it just tastes better, 'cause you know
it's in a bottle and it's been packaged
and left untouched.
- I feel like when I drink bottled water,
I do feel fancier, though. So, it might just be
more the aesthetic.
- (FBE) So, the water in glass 'C' is purified or filtered water.
This is Smartwater, which has added electrolytes.
- What the hell? I'm so off.
I feel like such an idiot right now.
- Smartwater. My mom drinks that all the time.
- I like Smartwater. I was actually drinking this
on the way here.
- Dude, I don't know why something in my brain
was like, "This is Smartwater." (laughs)
- (FBE) The pH level of Smartwater is 6.7.
- See, makes them very smart.
- That's interesting, 'cause I thought these tasted both
really good and they're on different sides of the spectrum.
This one's slightly acidic. This one's slightly basic.
- If I taste 'A.'
Oh yeah, definitely a difference.
- (FBE) The water in glass 'D' is called raw water.
- Hmm.
- Raw water? I don't even know
what raw water is.
- If there's anything I could just pinpoint as just water,
it wasn't tap, but it wasn't bottled.
It didn't feel super purified, it's just water.
- (FBE) It's from fresh spring water sourced from Opal Spring
in Madras, Oregon. This water specifically stems
from a lava tube that is filtered naturally through its environment,
unfiltered, with no treatment. Completely natural water
from the Earth. - That's impressive.
That was by far the smoothest one.
I would finish this up.
- Okay, it's not too bad. It's definitely better
than these two right here.
- That is so extra. People are so great at marketing.
They give you water and then they're like,
"Water from the spring that just came and filtered
through lava flow just to your plate."
- (FBE) While raw water has been a very trending topic,
there has been some bad press associated with this expensive
raw water, because there are risks to untouched water
being that there may be unfiltered contaminants
depending on where the water was sourced.
- That's very possible, but I guess with these ones
or with these two, at least, you know that they're
filtered to some extent.
- I'm drinking lava water? I feel like that's got
a lot of weird stuff going on in there.
- My mind isn't so focused about what could be
in the water. I'm just like,
"Wow, that was so smooth for it to be unfiltered."
- I'm just kinda wowed at the fact that I could
pick up what it was.
- Water tastes different. For everybody saying
water tastes the same, it is different.
- You gotta take risks, you know?
Ah. We'll see in a week.
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- Hey guys, Alyssa here, a producer from the React Channel.
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