my main issue with watertok is basically my issue with every tiktok trend which is that it encourages so much overconsumption, like this idea that you’ve got to buy a stanley cup and an ice machine and all these specific powders and syrups and it’s not enough to just have one you’ve gotta buy them all
Its like that here too, it's usually just a case of the obsessive people just being more prevelant/shared and spread on social media when most people rarely know anyone like that in their real lives. I think social media usually mis-represents most demographics
One of the bigger reasons why I don't have Tik Tok. I hate the overconsumption aspect of it. People are struggling to get things they NEED to survive simply because a tiktok went viral and people want to get it for 'fun' or lose weight. It's crazy to me. I despise it.
I really think this point is where the claim that this is a 'white woman' thing comes from, and honestly I can see that- especially since its a repeated trend spear-headed by white women. People getting actually mad that people are doing this is weird though. It's not that deep to blow up people's comment sections because the creator calls it "water," which its not. If its water, than I'll just start calling my Canada Dry Zero sparkling water.
I grew up in a very, very poor family. My parents couldn't afford actual juice, so I grew up on this stuff. Its weird to me that people are just now discovering it.
they aren't just now "discovering" it they're just normalizing it. before it was seen as like an alternative option and now it's seen as like the main option if that makes sense.
In my country, it's very popular, most school cantines do that, so for me it's very weird to see all these girlies discovering it like if it's a big boom. Plus most of them use so much syrup in it but still be like it's so healthy (and even though of some are sugar-free, sweeteners can still be not healthy as Annamarie said in the video).
Coffee and tea have caffeine so it’s not water. You can make herbal teas and that does count as water. I make them and chill over ice with no sugar or sweetener so it’s better than those waters but not very flavorful. Just a touch of fruit.
I think of it like horchata water, it has milk, condensed milk, blended rice and sometimes strawberries, and is still water, as a mexican, i don't see it weird
It has pervaded my work now. Legit had a girl ask what I was drinking in my water bottle. I said " Water." Then she asked, "What flavor?" So I responded with "Water." She then proceeded to be dispaonted 😂
There is no way that happened, like how? Do like all of you just live in a place concentrated with people who only watch tiktok??? Like nobody would ever ask me that here
@@pemanilnoobyou do know that TikTok trends end up outside of TikTok right? You also know that some adults have children who are on TikTok as well right?
Yeah if I put some sort of flavored concentrate in my water I’d call it juice instead of just water, like if you go to their house and ask for some water are they gonna ask what flavor? That’s gotta be a bit confusing for guests lmao
I had some good water the other day. I added flour to it, then some salt, oil and yeast, let it prove for a few hours and then baked it in the oven. It was the tastiest, fluffiest, crustiest water I ever did eat.
@ThatOreoBoy The point is not that they shouldn't be allowed to drink whatever they want, it's that they're still calling it 'water' when it's water plus all of the other ingredients. Like we wouldn't call a black iced coffee with flavour syrups in it 'water', but I'd argue they're made exactly the same as these concoctions. Also, pretty sure checking sugar solution and flavourings after weight loss surgery is a little counter productive. And you're going to diminish the advantages of drinking more water by filling it with diuretics like sugar and sugar free syrups.
Ohhhh, it’s the moral high-horse that has everybody so irritated. “I have my life together I’m so hydrated you filthy plebs drink soda and juice yikes” typa vibe in the community?
I mean tbf slightly flavored water is much better compared to soda... that doesn't give someone the right to think they're "better" than soda drinkers but I don't think most are like that...
because they are used for snowcones and other drinks, I have sugar free syrups for dieting and the watermelon torani is literally just like...slushie flavoring.
I personally don’t like flavored water, I like just plain cold refreshing water. I came here thinking these “watertok” people were gonna talk about different water alkalinity, pH levels, what brands are good/healthy… girl I couldn’t be more wrong 😂
Me too, I thought there was gonna be drama about tap vs bottled water, brands, mineral levels, temperature, carbonation... For me, it's gotten to a point where tap water from other regions tastes nasty to me, because I'm used to the taste of water from my muncipality, which is pumped from an aquifier dating back to the last ice age. The filtered river water coming out the pipes in most of my country's cities just can't compare. A watertok that's actually solely about water would've been my jam, but instead we're watching people make lemonade and calling it "flavored water"
As a recovering alcoholic I am all for alternatives instead of consuming alcohol and it's hard not to need some kind of vice. As long as people aren't using their water mixes as a replacement for food, I don't think it's an issue.
You should look up mocktail recipes! They’re super fun. Also, coffee is fun to mess around with if you like that. Get a bunch of flavors you like and made combos every morning! Today I have a shot of caramel with vanilla creamer!
But you can also just drink a fancy juice mixture lol. Just add sparkling water to juice and maybe a flavor or two and you have an actually good fancy drink vs pure aspartame
@@avamasquerade Honestly I don’t know. I just think that consuming that much of so many artificial ingredients can’t possibly be good for you. It also drives me bonkers that they’re even still calling it water. Because the only thing separating these concoctions from diet pop is carbonation.
@@avamasquerade long term use of artificial sweeteners is still more healthy than the same amount in sugar. If you want to be even healthier, don’t have sugar or artificial sweeteners.
The thing for me is that nothing actually *quenches* my thirst except for plain water. Every other drink I consume is just for the flavor, so I'll often have plain water alongside it anyway
Honestly, I'm mainly concerned that people don't know the side effects of consuming artificial sweeteners. I'm prone to migraines, and they're one of many ingredients I've avoided for years. Companies selling these products should be required to advertise side effects the same way medical products do.
And the artifical dyed are horrible for attention span, cause insomnia. And a whole host of other side effects. I've had to train my brain tk see anything w added dye and think "death" basically haha so these are horrendous to me, bc my son has alot of behavioral issues when he consumes them
Yes! I have hyperactive thyroid and have to avoid these like a plague. Consuming those lowers your blood sugar like crazy, because while the artificial sweeteners can't be dissolved by insulin, they're still sweet and it can trick your body into thinking it got sugar to release the insulin. But there's no sugar the insulin can deal with so it will target the sugar already present in your body, eating out on the rations meant for your muscles and brain. This can be dangerous, especially if you drink this on an empty stomach.
@@Whynotcreate Technically, yes. But you can't say that you're "making your bottle of water" if you're drinking iced coffee with milk and syrup for example. 😅
Doesn’t putting syrup into water just make it a soda? Like that’s literally how fountain drinks work, the syrup and water come from different containers and they get mixed together in the cup. I’m literally so confused how any of this is called water. 😂
I actually used to drink water with Skinny Syrup almost exclusively, and it kiiinda messed me up. There was a period of time where I struggled with dehydration, so I started adding these syrups to water to encourage myself to stay hydrated. I didn’t know it then, but consuming an excess of artificial sweeteners (even “healthy” ones) can have the same effect on you as actual sugar, and this led to me having to train myself out of drinking flavored waters altogether because I started craving sugary drinks even more. It’s also fair to mention how this trend can be an enabler to people with eating disorders. Not to say it’s intentional or that everyone on WaterTok is like this, but at a certain point I definitely started believing I could use flavored waters to discourage myself from snacking or eating. It’s something you definitely need to be careful promoting,
All good points and I just want to add my personal experience, not take away from yours! :) For me it's a bit of the opposite. I too didn't/don't like pure water too much and favour sone flavour. I drink mainly artificially sweetened drinks during the day (though I drink mildly sparkly water during the night and that stuff I absolutely love too), but it doesn't make me want sweet stuff more at all. If anything it makes me want it less, since it already feels like I had too much sweetness (I usually prefer not sweet things a bit). So, overall it doesn't change my craving for sugar, but whenever I want to, I can lower the craving with artificially sweetened drinks. The eating disorder point is a VERY good one! I can absolutely see how people could easily use this stuff to avoid eating/consuming anything real. Some put a single, crumbled up cookie, in several ice cube moulds, fill it with water, freeze it and eat it as "dessert" (or the whole "meal"). Imagine using even less cookie, if any and some sweetener for that. It would definitely "work" for too many.
To add to the ED thing, it reminds me of when I would take a bite of something and try to reframe things so that I wouldn't feel guilty. It is diet culture to make a completely different food/drink and call it what it's not. The difference is these are inherently more unhealthy than plain water, so they're like the reverse of those people who eat pieces of lettuce and call it chips.
For me I have no problem with the girlies doing their thing and making drink mixes to their hearts content. My very literal autistic brain’s only issue is them continuing to call it “water” because after a certain point it just doesn’t seem like it can be called that anymore but other than that, more power to them!
literally!! i use mio when im trying to cut back on soda (im prone to getting kidney stones, so if im getting too stressed out i switch over to flavored waters any time id want soda as to not make it worse, since those are the 2 causes of mine, stress being the main)
i knew tiktok subcategories/communities could be literally anything, yet i'm still shocked to see that watertok is a thing. edit- flabbergasted that people recognized my pfp tbh
I'm autistic and growing up our tap water wasn't safe to drink and my parents made the choice to buy soda instead. so changing to drinking water when I grew up was hard, and I use flavoring to make it easier. I reuse a $12 cup I got while I was working at Spirit Halloween, and use one type of flavoring over and over as well using a Brita filter now. I've felt a lot healthier and now treat monsters and sodas as an occasional treat. having the flavoring has helped me a lot, but I entirely agree it can be taken too far. From the overconsumption to the risk of causing disordered eating, its important to moderate yourself and make sure you're not unintentionally harming yourself. awesome video as always :)
Geez… I can’t imagine not being able to drink your own tap water… thank god for Brita filters or I’d been the same at my dorms. (It was still iffy but I boiled most of it to make tea). Tap water shouldn’t ever be unsafe or even just gross to drink.
@@mad_hatt it's awful to think many are left without fresh drinking water from the tap, as a kid it was strange knowing entire cities and even countries experience the same thing I did on a much larger scale. I'm incredibly grateful to have been able to move and get a Brita filter, I feel so much better these days. but I'll always remember what that was like, and ache for those in similar situations
Glad to hear I’m not the only one! Also ND here! 🙋🏻My parents raised me on soda and juice concentrate so I literally can’t drink plain water without wanting to throw up it’s so gross, doesn’t matter what brand, temperature, etc. and no lemon is not enough. Water tastes like spit and plastic to me. 🙏🏻 the closest I’ve gotten is propel. I drink that and iced tea. People think it’s weird, which I guess it is, but I can’t help the 🤢 when it hits my tongue
Fun fact: I actually did some research on adding flavor packets to water when I ran out of real juice for my water and found water was boring and the flavor packets add a bunch of sugar as well as change your tongue because it becomes used to the sugary sweet water to the point that it finds regular water boring and it's really hard to revert back to drinking regular water once you flavor your water daily for a certain amount of time
It's 0 sugar and 10 calories for the water flavoring packets I use for working out. They're Great Value. I put 2 in a 24oz blender bottle to cover "unflavored" EAAs from Bulksupplements. I'd say that even if there's a minute bit of sugar in water flavoring, it's nothing compared to consuming sodas. Or even Gatorade. So in the long run it's an improvement. They're drinking no caffeine (except some packets do contain caffeine) and a lot less sugar and calories than what's in soft drinks etc. It's actually healthier. Maybe not if you use the entire packet in a Stanley Cup though. Idk about that cause that just seems insane. 2 in a 24ox blender bottle is enough to mostly cover up the flavor of pure amino acids so I can't imagine why they'd dump that much into water but to each their own. As long as the overconsumption doesn't lead to a shortage cause I can't stomach unflavored EAAs by themselves. It's like a multivitamin dissolving on your tongue.
@@bbspooks From what I read even if there isn't a lot of sugar it can still change your tongue and make it harder for you to enjoy regular water without flavoring because your tastebuds are altered from the taste to become used to the flavoring and not plain water which is overall much healthier for you than any additives or flavor packets in the long run regardless
@Fangirl-inator109 that's flavor in general that does that to your tongue. Sour candy, hot sauce, pickled ginger. There's so many things that aren't inherently terrible for you that effect your taste. If you consume sugar daily, something unsweetened will taste awful. Compared to someone who doesn't consume sugar much, will find something stevia sweetened or perhaps dark chocolate more sweet than bitter where the consistent sugar intaker will find dark chocolate unbearably bitter. (Talking 75%+ dark chocolates.)
@Fangirl-inator109 like I said the additives might not be the BEST but it's a BETTER ALTERNATIVE. Still better than soda or Gatorade. Besides some water isn't even healthy for you. Some tap water is contaminated. Some people pay out the ass for alkaline water when it can be harmful because or bodies already do the job of balancing our ph level. Consuming alkaline water can disrupt the balance. Watch Huberman on optimum hydration. Spring water is the best and healthiest water as it has the required minerals to be ACTUAL water. That said, the water flavorings aren't that bad in the long run. If you're concerned about additives, you'd have to be concerned about like 99.9% of what the average developed country consumes. Almost everything has additives, hormones, antibiotics, or pesticides now. Unless you're raising your own meat, dairy, vegetables, fruit, and have your own spring water well: you're not erasing all of the "bad things" we can consume. The goal is to make it better than before. Therefore if water flavorings are assisting people to drink water with flavor packets vs grams on grams of sugary drinks or sodas, then what's the ACTUAL harm?? It's obvious weighing it out that these benefits mean more than a couple of additives. I'd argue these packets have less additives than a can of even DIET Coke. And of we get down right into actual science: water isn't what's keeping us hydrated. Fluids are. Water is A fluid. Not the only fluid. Electrolytes keep us hydrated. Water is healthy but there's no inherent benefit of PURIFIED water. Spring water has minerals. It's the minerals within the water that has health benefits. That come from rocks and the ground the spring it's bottled from runs through. Purified water is stripped of all these minerals and nutrient value. Even if you drank 2L of water a day you could still get dehydrated without the proper balance of electrolytes going back into you body. The can depend on your activity level because electrolytes have to be replaced a certain % of what's sweat out through exercise. I could go on but all I'm saying is water flavoring and griping over the "unhealthiness" of it is absolutely trivial and nonsensical. Why does one want to shame the "health" factor of how another consumes water? I don't understand. We should be happy they just drink water anyways. Despite the fact the argument of "water is healthy" can go down further rabbit holes of "not all water is actually healthy." I'd be more concerned over the fact Tiktok trends create overconsumption which causes supply, demand, and economical strains on products and goods these days. It's consumerism on steroids.
water recipe tier list, I'm begging you. collect a few of them and do a taste test, because this is such a weird and wild trend, you know theres some crazy flavoured waters out there
Drinking these and saying it's water is like giving your children ultra-concentrated nesquick with their breakfast every day and saying it's milk - like yeah,, it's certainly an ingredient within the cup lol
One thing that may be contributing to this being particularly popular in the south (particularly in more rural areas from the sound of it) is that most of the time our tap water is discussing, primarily lake and well water, it’s why we drink a lot of ice tea and lemonade and keep our drinks cold cold cold to make it taste less vile, adding flavor has been a thing for decades down here this is just the latest version.
@@bigmanbigpants2293 yeah no, I mean more like when the lakes turn in the summer (the day time heat causes currents that churn the lakes and stir up silt and debris on the lake bed) the tap water tastes the way a poorly maintained grocery store fish counter smells.
@@bigmanbigpants2293Our well water in Michigan was heavy on Sulfur. Couldn't keep my clothes white which sucked for work uniforms and it tasted nasty.
I'm from the midwest, and the specific area I grew up in has literally some of the best tasting water in the country. Even where I currently live, which has decent quality tap water, I can't stand it because it tastes like a pool to me. Hell, there's only one brand of BOTTLED water I actually like and is sold here, and it's one of the more expensive ones(Fiji). Flavored beverages are a godsend for me as I can only get so much Fiji all the time, lol.
imagine you’re really thirsty and your friend has their water with them. you ask if you can have a sip, and they say sure. and what you end up getting is birthday cake water. you throw up on ur friend and end the friendship.
What happened to cucumber water or lemon lime orange slices or putting a bunch of random berries in a pitcher of water to add flavor? Plus it gives you fruit to munch on as well.
Right? I was wondering the same thing, since that's usually what I do when I need to add a little flavor to my water to motivate myself to drink more. I love squeezing lemons - just regular lemons - into my water. I also drink those water infusers, which is basically just iced tea packets, but still good. But I also hate things that are overly sweet, so looking at these "water" flavors just make me gag a little.
@@beck-nightengale literally, my college used to have 2-3 infused waters in one of the dining halls, and I loved filling up my water bottle there at breakfast. It usually lasted until around lunch, too, when I could fill up again. And if I did run out, there were plenty of regular water fountains around that I used. With everything they're adding to their water it's juice at best, or a sports drink/flat soda at worst.
The pistachio, cherry and marshmallow salad is called Watergate salad. I never used cherries, but i love making it for thanksgiving or potlucks. My family calls it Green Stuff. Fun Fact! Watergate salad got its name because it was made during the Watergate scandal, and it was "on the tips of everyones tongues at the time"
my mom hates drinking water to the point where she goes days without drinking anything but sodas and coffee. her doctor literally recommended flavored water packets like mio, crystal light, etc. because she would be actually drinking more water. and it worked! she drinks way more water now than she did before.
This is me. Plain water activates my gag reflex and everyone acts like I’m so weird and it’s annoying af sometimes. Especially when they tell me to just drink water because I won’t and these packets are the only way I actually can get water into me so fuck those people that are rude about it tbh. I feel that I’ve found my people lol
There's actually these smell packets that give the illusion of flavored water that you can put on specific water bottle that are interesting. I don't know if they work, but it seems like the best way to protect from overusing artificial sugars.
My dad had a work colleague who was known around the office for having crippling headaches around the same time every day, and having to go take a nap to get through them. To cut a very long story short it turned out she was substituting meals for water to lose weight, and she was drinking something insane like 5 litres of water a day. She had water intoxication and was nearly hospitalised.
Bro what? Bet she spent like half the work day at the toilet too. I drink like two liters of water when I work at home and I have to stand up like 5x times a day just to pee ☠️ poor girl, hope she's doing better.
@@reeeew_222 Yes! It’s super bad! It causes disturbances in electrolyte balance, resulting in a rapid decrease in serum sodium concentration. Brain swelling and eventual death.
As someone who struggles with my relationship with food (recovered/recovering from an ED), I’m just afraid that this will be like a breakfast or lunch substitute for girls who have the issues I used to have. We would flavor ice and suck on it instead of eating. It was weird now that I look back on it.
DUDE, its like chewing gum instead of eating food but on steriods cuz this makes it AeSTheTic, and stupid stuff like that. like how only eating 3 salads and doing intense workouts or cardio is seen as what people should strive for in their health. surprise, athletes actually eat a lot more to supplement their body mass and they need more energy to do more intense things. take care people, and make sure to drink water.
Something I gotta mention is from my own childhood: If your family couldn’t get a specific juice and you were a VERY picky child (literally would just not eat because eating food I hated made me physically uncomfortable), Crystal Light was pretty useful. So I only knew of it in that context. Juice replacement when juice isn’t available. It’s really weird finding out it was actually a diet thing lol.
I think my main confusion around watertok is that it’s always been a thing in other countries to have powdered drink mixes / cordials etc. And it’s always been that once you add these things to water, it no longer makes them water. Like if you add pink lemonade mix to water it doesn’t make it “pink lemonade water” it makes it pink lemonade. I do appreciate the effort that people put into these drinks, but I can’t get behind calling them water. It’s so confusing to me as a non-American
It’s like coffeetok where people add things to coffee… the base is the root. You really don’t think Americans have drink mixes? Why are y’all so ignorant
@@xocreme No, because water is the absolute base for all consumable liquids. If what you are saying is correct then coffeetok should also be watertok because the base is water.
Honestly yeah. In my country we mainly have fruit powder packets called 'raro' and yeah, if you add those to water you don't call it water anymore, you call it 'raro'
and here I thought watertok was going to be comparing different bottled waters, waters from tap, water from mountain streams, and debunking the myth of "ph/ionized water"
Thanks for calling them "Mocktails" cause that's what I was thinking the whole time. Flavored water has never appealed to me, I'd just as soon have a glass of juice to avoid the fake sugar after taste. But be ups to the people who are quitting drinking alcohol by replacing it with something probably better for you. Also, Tanya has big time cool mom vibes imo, seems fun
As someone who hates flavored water, the fact that theres a whole fandom about dumping a bunch of artificial sweeteners and syrups to their water is absolutely baffling to me
I couldn't care less about what people put in their water to drink it, what baffles me though is how they can insist to still call it water! Then beer is water and coffee and tea and lemonade and broth and just about everything of that vague realm.
what throws me off abt the stanley cups and watertok is the fact that they own so many but also that most of them just dump single-use plastic water bottles into their stanleys which defeats the ENTIRE purpose
I’m a nurse who regularly takes care of patients recovering from bariatric surgery and I gotta say the medical information in this video is very accurate.
@Taryn Elise I'm a Bari patient and use straws every single day. We were discouraged from using straws in the first 12mos. Fair game after that. No negative impact from using straws.
Yea, my mom and I had it 3 years ago. They discourage using straws in the beginning, something to do with air bubbles in your now smaller stomach, I think? If you chug water, it won't stay down.
@@lamibonxd I’m a water bottle ho just because I love drinking water and legitimately switch out every other day or so to wash but the way people jump brands like this is just so funny to me. I’m super picky about having a straw but I like the built in ones that like flip out so I’ve had some I haven’t liked and once I got one I loved I bought a few. So I’m not even saying like don’t buy water bottles. BUT THE WAY SHE HAS A STANLEY WATER BOTTLE SHELF HAD ME ON THE FLOOR. Especially with the way they’re set up all facing the right way it’s obviously an aesthetic thing and it’s just so strange 😂
i just got myself a hydro flask this year bc they seemed better quality to me than other options. i love it and i can’t even imagine getting a different one just because it’s a more popular brand
As someone with thyroid issues, I was told by my doctor to avoid all artificial sweeteners, as many of them impact thyroid function (it's not well understood as far as I know, but it seems to cause inflammation of the thyroid). In fact, part of what made us realize I'd inherited my mom's thyroid problems was when I drank half a diet coke and was sick for a full day afterwards. So if you tend towards thyroid issues, please be careful!
@Skylar I have hyper! I think they told me to avoid them specifically because mine is caused by inflammation so we're actively avoiding anything that could cause more inflammation, but it's always good to keep an eye out just in case you're one of the unlucky few it affects!
This is something I've never heard of! Guess I'll have to look into whether or not it interacts with Hashimotos, I always feel kinda blah so it's hard to ever pin down a source 😁
@@darkshadowrule2952 Hashimoto's as well, I wouldn't know if artificial sweeteners impact thyroid function since in Europe, most artificial sweeteners are banned.
Flavoring your water like this is probably fine if you’re trying to wean off drinking too much soda or coffee, but definitely not a long-term thing. When I was trying to stop drinking two coffees a day, I started with tea with sugar, then tea with honey, then tea, then nothing.
Yeah i did the same with these flavored powders, I gradually added less powder and now only drink water with the occasional flavor pack or sometimes a soft drink.
The pistachio marshmallow cherry salad is a fruit salad from the south called ambrosia salad, it usually also has coconut, mandarin oranges, and cool whip among other fruits.
As someone who loves tap water, and doesn't do a lot of flavorings or soda, in moderation this is great. The issue is that WaterTok (like any TikTok trend) promotes an idea, even subconsciously, that you need all of it and it needs to become your personality...this is now the only thing you can drink, you must dedicate your kitchen to the water closet (or whatever that one lady called it), and you must become the water...
@Duhbaby2348h I agree. It's not their personality people really make videos that fit in a certain category because that's how people consume content. That's like saying a cooking channel is the person's whole personality because because they excited about their kitchen appliances and storage.
Damn, I was waiting for you to talk about the weird amount of watertok folks that pour bottles of water INTO a reusable cup. That’s my biggest issue with some of them. 😅😅
I feel like turning your water into a sugary concontion that's basically just flat soda defeats the purpose of drinking water. But hey, if they like it and it makes them happy, more power to them.
My 62 yr old mom went through this phase in 2002, especially crystal lite. I can't believe ppl are still into this. I just like plain water, but I'm a heretic
Might be because they have a lot of time on their hands and some sort of urge to be creative. I find that my house is suuuper organised in some sort of visually pleasing way if I’m not working much.
i think the eating disorder criticism is especially valid as filling up on water is definitely a thing. i used to do it and now i can't really drink plain water sometimes because it brings back all those feelings so i see how flavoured water being 'trendy' would make it easier for someone with an ED to, well, not recover. it's really a double edge because for some people flavoured water helps to stay hydrated and for others it helps to stay malnutrioned (idk if that's the right word but you get the point).
true. that's kind of the thing for all food related topics though. some people will benefit from it, while some are at risk of exacerbating their conditions.
it seems like some of them are doing it to hydrate but its not helping them. They're increasing their sweet tooth while increasing their sugar intake. Is that really gonna help in the long run?
The water bars look fun. The act of mixing up your drink and making new flavors and having all these cute little bottles and shelves and stuff? That looks so delightful! I can totally understand why people enjoy that! I also understand why people are grossed out by it. I have ARFID and the idea of actually consuming any of those syrups makes me physically ill. But like... It's not my body, so what do I care? I also feel sick when people eat guacamole, that doesn't mean they're wrong lol As for the debate of whether or not it can still be considered water: I'd definitely call these beverages, and afaik beverages are, by definition, drinks that are not water. That being SAID. This question is of about as much consequence as the "Is water wet?" debate, which is entirely pointless and only asked for fun.
I had bariatric surgery and let me tell you the community is RIDDLED with disordered eating. One of the main things is that post op you’re told by professionals that you can NEVER have “bad” foods again or you’re a screw up. They teach patients actual behaviors that are literally ana behaviors (obsessive chewing, 800 cal a day etc) but because the medical consensus is still quite fatphobic it doesn’t matter.
This is why I went to a nutritionist when it came to me dealing with BED. Gave me a meal plan for life based on my ethnicity, budget, and resources and needs. It was very helpful and taught me that eating 3 meals a day is not a crime and will actually help me more .
@@100Stratusfiedx it's more about the calories per day thing, which is a really messed-up idea and itself, but a lot of "fitness/fat loss experts" will put a huge emphasis on Calorirs instead of health
Don’t they encourage minimal calories because your stomach has been surgically made smaller? My aunt had to lose weight to get the surgery and then after she got it had to watch what she ate or she’d get sick. As for the foods hopefully they teach how to cook good food that’s satisfying. I think most processed foods should just be avoided in general tho even if you’re thin they’re full of things we don’t need at all.
I won’t lie. I weaned myself off juice to drinking more water. I began diluting juice with water over several month. It got to the point to where I drank 25% juice, mixed with 75% plain water. I eventually got off juice and ended up drinking more plain water. Once in a while I still crave something else other than water, so I go for those squeeze flavorings to add to my water. The difference is I add such little flavoring where I still enjoy the slight flavor to my water. The watertoks seem to add sooooo much flavoring and added syrup, which defeats the whole purpose of water. Isn’t that how companies make juice anyway? Great video. Loved it.
I should try that instead of flavoring my water with crystal light. I struggle SO BADLY with just drinking plain water. I can’t drink water unless it’s ice cold, but even that’s a struggle because I have such an unhealthy addiction to soda. I can’t do sparkling water because it has no flavor. I definitely want to drink more water again so I can get healthy again and lose weight. Thank you for the suggestion!
@@reda-exe When you work out, your body is taking energy from your glycogen storage, which is the stored form of glucose, aka sugar. Glucose, which comes from carbohydrates, is your body's main source of energy. Consuming carbohydrates, like through sugar (natural or added) will help you replenish your glycogen storage. Of course, juice with no added sugar is likely more nutrient dense. Long story short: juice, added sugar or not, can be a great post-workout pick me up💪(or even mid-workout if your planning a looong work out)
I did the same thing! I never hear anyone else recommending diluting juice, but it worked. Plain water is so refreshing and (oddly) flavorful to me now, and if I do drink juice, it's too sweet for me if it's not diluted. Going from a ton of sugary drinks to plain water is bound to feel weird for people, but the less sugar you have, the less you want it, so weaning yourself off really is the way to go imo. These "waters" would be great for going from soda to plain water, but yeah, drinking them all the time and adding a tonnnnn of flavoring isn't quite the right idea.
5:15I work at a roadside ice cream place, and we use those pump syrups a LOT. And let me tell ya, we use half a pump for a 16 ounce milkshake, and some people tell us it’s too strong and sweet. So I don’t know how they consume that amount of it without gagging.
That’s what I was thinking! I have these syrups for making espresso and I can only use like 2 small spoons in a big cup before it’s overpoweringly sweet. When I saw the woman use 6 pumps in plain water I nearly gagged.
As someone from Oklahoma, my great grandma used to make the salad she was talking about with marshmallows and it was delicious, but hearing it put into a drink sounds atrocious 😭
You know, as much as the concept of these syrupy waters makes me nauseated, I love that these women are finding little things that make them happy. Life is so fucking dreadful and awful sometimes. I'm a cosplayer. I find magic in little things all the time because I use escapism to an extreme degree. I put on my silly little wigs and my silly little costumes and I pretend shit isn't terrible by running around a convention center full of other people in silly little wigs. For these women, if their colorful Red Lake 40 sugar water makes them happy, then by all means.
Yeah man, I drink plenty myself, but it’s alcohol, and I love a pretty cocktail - I’d imagine the syrup/water mix is better for people than that, and at least it’s hydrating (though I think sugar is dehydrating so it depends a bit on the ratio 🤔). But yeah, it would be too much for me to have over and over, but fuck it, this feels like a situation that very much calls for a “let people enjoy things”. 🤷🏻♀️🍹
this attitude in the face of capitalism isolating us from each other and our selves will only result in increasing consumption to fill the emptiness. Idk if this is the way forward
I just don't like it because I have texture issues, it's the same reason I can't drink a melted slushie, my brain doesn't like that it's flavored and has the consistency of water. "It tastes like a smoothie, why doesn't it feel like a smoothie, get rid of it."
As a person with an eating disorder, I used to drink an insane amount of water every day to lose weight. The problem with these videos is it’s giving people a perfect gateway into disordered eating
yeah i think my biggest issue is the normalization of "have the thing you love without it actually being it!" bc that's how a LOT of proana creators get you. they tell you that you can have anything without gaining weight and that you'll be 'obsessed and addicted' when it's something natural. im gonna say this as someone who for a long time now has suffered with eating, a lot: drink what you want and eat what you want and do not manifest yourself a problem. if you're healthy and don't need these solutions do not use them. most of them are just not okay and need to vent it somewhere.
@@juicyboxesxo periodt! healthy people should not be trying to somehow make themselves “healthier” with interventions that obviously aren’t meant for them
truly reminded me of my ED recipes when i was actively struggling with AN. like i never want to accuse someone of having an ED bc it could be projection, right, but this certainly feels like a gateway - especially with how the tiktok algorithm works.
im fascinated by the vowel you use in "water", "loss", "lost", "autoimmune", "also". and how it's not there in "tiktok" or "tonya" and "asked"!!! what an interesting way to say "asked"!!
7 pumps of flavoring is what goes in a starbucks trenta (32 oz instead of 35 oz) the birthday cake water contains as much syrup as a starbucks drink. that has to be so so so sickeningly sweet.
watertok is my biggest guilty pleasure. i don't think i'd enjoy the drinks they make but their enthusiasm when they mix up their potions is very entertaining. Also the replies to people who poke fun at them are especially fun to watch. i love discourse that is completely removed from my own life
It's the aggression from the watertok girlies that gets me. I'm all for making something easier for you to drink, plenty of us need more hydration. Though water flavoring packets have been around for fucking ever, so I'm confused how people are acting like it's brand new and unheard of. *But you can't pour in a kool-aid packet and then get mad when people call it kool-aid* Edited to add: I was reminded of a health issue I went through around 14-15 with acute acid reflux that then developed into vomiting at random throughout the day. It interefered with my regular life. Multiple doctirs identified my continuous consumption of sugar free water packets. A month after fully cutting them out was when I finally started feeling better. Overconsumption truly is harmful.
For real, we literally used these packets as a kid to make koolaid and lemonade. And it wasn’t watered down either. There was no flavor difference. Like I understand being upset at all the criticism, but why get so aggressively defensive
Like these "recipes" would be fine in moderation! Or hell, even if they just admitted they were basically making homemade, uncarbonated soda. But their need to claim they're being ~healthy~ by drinking water just drives me nuts.
I might have given myself a kidney stone with how much flavored water I was drinking. I would buy the lemondade mix that looks like the tang containers. Almost all of that is sugar.
@@HeyLeFay agree 100% like using these recipes to replace an alcoholic beverage or reduce your soda or caffine intake because it replaces that fun drink for you makes sense but to call it water and replace all your daily water intake and cal it heathy is wild ahah
Nobody in this video said it was something new or that they invented it, and the most animated response to criticism in the video specifically included the statement that they don’t claim to have invented it? I guess you’re talking about stuff you’ve seen elsewhere that the creator didn’t react to in the video?
The “grandma’s salad” is called Watergate salad. Its a Easter dessert. She left out the part where all of those ingredients are mixed with whipped cream. It sounds gross but it’s so good 😅😂
When I was younger my mom would take me a little picnic lunches during the summer and I always got Watergate salad. It’s been so long since I’ve had it though :(
That’s what I was thinking this whole time, is this not just juice??? Like if I put a crystal lite packet in a water bottle I’m not gonna keep calling it water, it’s juice now
Right?! It's just...so confusing. It feels like a way to feel special, or worse, to grift people. Folks say "well it's water first, and then you flavor it," but like that's how a lot of juices and even sodas are made! If you look at the ingredients list, which is usually ordered by most-used to least-used, water is almost always first, even before whatever fruit juice was used. It's one thing if all they're doing is putting in sugars. Then it's sugar water. But the ones with packets are just juice!
I get the reasoning, like if you flavor your coffee, it's still coffee. It's just that the amount of shit they're putting in there is daunting, so it's not even flavored water anymore
Fr like, I guess "soft drink" doesn't roll off the tongue as well as just "water" but like... adding syrups and flavors to water makes it a soft drink. Water is just water.
CW: disordered eating - - - First of all, when I was in the darkest part of my ED, I was smashing out sugar-free cordial etc because it was "guilt-free", 0-10 calories at most, and it felt like I was not depriving myself. I loved that. Craving chocolate? Cookies? Even a damn banana? It's okay, just have some sugar-free cordial! Tonya saying she does not want to promote disordered eating and self-image is all well and good, but ultimately she IS promoting sugar-free "guilt-free" drinks as a substitute for GODDAMN WATER as a woman who has lost a substantial amount of weight. Don't get me wrong - I am excited for her as she has obviously gotten a new lease on life etc. But it's the same way that Optifast (meal replacement shakes, people about to undergo bariatric surgery here in Australia need to be on a strict weight loss regimen with them for 2~ weeks before the surgery to minimise their weight beforehand) is often used by people with eating disorders. Coloured, pretty, delicious water? Sounds *easy* to replace meals with. It's upsetting to see this being a trend as something that helped me destroy my health for years. Also, she *does* tag her videos as #weightloss #weightlossinspo. I just watched a few of her water recipe videos (honestly as many as I could stomach to watch, so it was like 2.5?) And she does NOT speak about how this should not be used as a meal replacement, or the importance of balanced nutrition at all. Also, I'm the opposite of a "chemicals = bad" person, but putting like 6 pumps of artificial sweetener in water just to get barely half of your daily intake is... nauseating
Anyone promoting any kind of weight loss would potentially trigger someone with an eating disorder. It's unfortunate, but also we can't ask everyone to walk on eggshells. I have a binge eating disorder and I found that working out helps relieve some of my anxiety and reduces the chances of binging. I usually go on IG to watch some of my favorite influencers who I can relate to and it motivates me to do things like go on a walk on during times that I may feel down. Someone with orthorexia may watch the same video that inspired me and feel triggered instead. You can't please/help everyone. There was this shirt that went viral years ago that said "have you eaten today?" it was meant to support those with anorexia, but it could also be triggering to someone with binge eating disorder as there is a lot of shame around eating. People with BED didn't demand that they stop selling the shirt. If it's helping someone, then good. It's on each individual to deal with their own shit. She's helping and inspiring so many people who deal with weight loss and sugar addiction.
That is what I was thinking. She says she isn't promoting diet culture in her vids but then tags them as #weightloss which seems completely hypocritical.
i'm a current bariatric patient and most people don't know that a lot of our stomachs can't handle plain water for some reason. for the first 2 months after surgery, plain water made me extremely nauseous (luckily it has subsided for me but some people have it for longer). i just drank gatorade during that time, but that's one reason why the watertok girlies make these concoctions.
@@tessahatchett ahh that makes sense. I would assume that if your tap water has chemicals that would affect you too. Thanks for sharing, I'm glad you're starting to feel better!
My mum is 8 months post surgery and plain water still makes her feel sick, which she absolutely hates because pre op she drank atleast 3L a day. Her doc ended up recommending that she use a specific type of flavoured protein powders that don’t create that horrible thick consistency that most protein additives do and she absolutely loves them. I’ve even started using them just to get my protein intake up.
It feels like another part of the rampant consumerism on TikTok with the emphasis on needing so many different flavorings and fancy expensive cups in their pretty set up. It feels like everyone on tiktok has started making free ads for companies and it's apparently even inescapable with even something as simple as water. No hate to the watertok influencers, I just think it's something we need to be conscious of when engaging with content online.
you nailed it, I don't care about the water itself, but there's still something OFF about this, in the way that there's something off about all major social media trends these days. And yea, it's the whole 'you can't just get a mio and an empty gatorade bottle and have ur water, you should to get all these brands and bottles and turn it into a whole water-bar in ur house and ritually engage with e-commerce EVEN MORE!' im glad ppl are having fun but the consumerism just makes everything feel kinda grimy:/
This! The hyper-consumerism is going to get incrementally worse, for sure. I know not everyone can escape it, but I do try to make a conscious effort to not buy into every little thing.
This should be the pinned comment. Too many Tik Tok trends seem to be about going all in on something right from the get-go. Spending a crapload of money on ALL the things, as soon as something becomes trendy. And Tik Tok trends come and go so quickly, that in 6 months, all those Stanley cups and syrups will be shoved to the back of the cupboard to make room for all the things needed to follow the next trend.
thank you! this! as someone who wasn't raised in this country, I feel like it's solely an American thing. Stuff like this on tik tok (and outside of it) makes me feel so uncomfortable, where everything is 'White walled", big fake smiles/energy, and consumerism. It's so different compared to my culture, that when I migrated over as a child, I rem being fixated on American drinking glasses. They were so tall and see-through, and they served it with water and ice. It felt inherently overdone, and it felt like the epiphany of every American home. I don't know why I fixated on that specifically.
it feels like everything on tiktok has to be "aesthetic" in a way, from your morning routine, study routine, bedtime routine, the things you eat, play and wear, even your water...like it's more important for things to look good than to actually be fun and enjoyable i understand things looking good is better for your views and all, but it just feels like everything these kinds of people do is meticulously edited and engineered for the cameras, and it feels dystopian
as someone who has been dehydrated since childhood (its the AuDHD in my case) im VERY pro-hydration in whatever form works for you. its none of my business what ppl put in their water, im just glad they are enjoying themselves while getting hydrated!
I like flavored water; but why add a packet AND syrup? Pick one!! (Also, I totally agree with the "making a drink"; Kool Aid isn't water; but all it is is water and a flavor packet and sugar stirred in. Soda isn't water and all it is is water carbonated and then syrup added.)
@@michelleevolving no frrr I’m not one to shy away from sweet coffee either I love it but them syrups are toooo much litterally crazy they can put 5-10 pumps into water 😩
I've literally had a doctor suggest sugar free flavor packets to add to water if necessary to make it palatable, they're cheaper than buying bottled water, and tap water tastes really nasty in a lot of places. That said, I tend to use 1 packet to like a liter of water so all this added sugary stuff on top of the 'suggested amount' is insane to me, because the 'suggested amount' is too sweet and strong for me.
There is absolutely a place for it. If what you’re adding to the water doesn’t bother your health and you’re able to hydrate and not be miserable then that’s ace! Something in life got less worse that’s all we can hope for on this planet
My doctor suggested flavor packets because she wanted me to drink more electrolytes, which plain water didn’t have, and some of those packets have electrolytes. I quickly starting craving plain water though and had to find an alternative that gave me electrolytes without affecting the flavor. Cold water just hits different.
This is how I am I’m autistic and if water tastes different than normal or something I can tell and I can’t drink it it makes me gag so adding a little flavor or lemon juice or something (or the electrolyte stuff cause I’m usually dehydrated) helps a lot. But what they add in these videos is excessive like I tend to uses more water than recommended because it’s too sweet or overpowering with the recommended water amount I can’t imagine adding multiple packets along with syrups without feeling nauseous after.
Girl, I did consult a medical professional after watching your video. And he told me the reason my migraines have been getting worse might just be because of my increased consumption of flavored water.
Like the first reply mentioned, if it has aspartame, that could be a contributing factor. It's not good for the body, the only reason it's fda approved is because of lobbying and a bribe.
My partner mentioned watertok to me and my first thought was that it was an ED thing. I'm glad that people are drinking more water. I learned years ago that drinking kool aid, soda, even milkshakes are better than drinking nothing. And this is closer to water than koolaid even, so if a little added artificial sugar helps you get hydrated, good for you. But its not a meal substitute. Don't drink birthday cake water if the only reason is bc you don't think its okay to eat birthday cake. Have the cake, and if you want birthday cake water, drink that too.
tbh i think depends on what ED we're talking about. The default assumption when EDs get brought up is that it's always about ones that are too restrictive, in which case yeah I agree. But there are also EDs that involve overconsumption (which I have) and quite frankly as someone who is very much willing to eat an entire cake, I don't see a problem with replacing a birthday cake with birthday cake flavoured water, with the explicit intent of it being a substitute.
@@amentrison2794 ty for bringing this up. At one point, I could eat straight sugar by the spoon. People like to talk like that's not possible but it very much is.
I had Gastric bypass 13years ago. A strange after effect of the surgery for many patients is that plain water is nauseating and triggers the gag reflex. Personally, it has gotten better over the years but is a real thing.
That’s pretty interesting, is it a known side effect you were warned of or one of those things you discover afterwards? I have ARFID and during bad weeks I can struggle even keeping water down, so I get how miserable it is.
as a brit this trend is especially weird cos these drinks just feel like the most insanely elaborate squashes ever lol (over here, flavoured water is often a more subtle flavour and very little sweetness, whereas squash is basically flavoured sugar syrup topped off with water... squash is often given to kids who don't like drinking plain water and it's much healthier than drinking coke or whatevs...) i personally am fine with drinking plain water, but i dont begrudge others adding fun flavours to it if they dont like it lol... trust tiktok to create goddamn discourse over water lool
I'm Irish so our food/drinks are 99% the same and I agree! Are dilutable juices not a thing elsewhere? Can you not buy flavoured water easily in shops? I love weird and insignificant cultural differences like this 😅
i promise you watertok does not reflect our view of flavored water 😭 the american south is a different planet sometimes lmao “flavored water” to me is just water with a little something added, not a whole-ass other beverage like the middle-aged white southern women are making on tiktok
@@eimeartheirishstitcher i was thinking the same thing! It’s mad to me that they are adding these powders to water like that? And the syrup too? Seems a bit excessive 😭
The liquid cake one reminds me of when I was in middle school and was at a friend's birthday sleepover. We had extra cake and had the brilliant idea to blend the rest to see how it would taste to drink it. It tasted just like we were eating the cake normally, but the consistency was so thick that I had a hard time swallowing it without gagging. We basically only took one sip and couldn't bring ourselves to drink any more than that. It was more like a dare than anticipating drinking the rest. Made some funny memories at least!
I mean, adding 40 grams of sugar in the forms of syrups and flavouring to your water kinda takes it away from being "just water". It's also an insanely high amount of sugar to consume in the form of beverages multiple times a day. Having said that, if you dislike the taste of plain water, flavoured water is a great way to drink more. That flavour can be as simple as a reasonable amount of syrup, lemon/mint/ginger/cucumber slices, or even just a diluted cooled down tea.
Also drinking water isn't the only way to receive hydration! You receive a fair amount from the foods you consume. If you only drink when you feel thirsty, chances are you're not going to become dehydrated.
@Hayley I've definitely seen people use Starbucks syrups which aren't sugar free to make "water". Besides, consuming artificial sweeteners in large amounts over an extended period of time have a negative impact on your health, too.
These packets are sugar free- they aren’t from Starbucks. The Starbucks drinks are coffees, these are just water flavorings, and they’re all sugar free by design.
only time i've ever had flavored water was at a funeral. it was not labeled as flavored and there was no regular water anywhere except the bathroom sink. i dont know what the hell they were thinking tbh.
The "grandma's salad" in question is called ambrosia or Watergate salad (also known as green fluff, creamy fruit salad, cool whip fruit salad, or "heavenly hash"). It consists of pistachio-flavored instant pudding, whipped topping, mini marshmallows, pineapple, mandarin oranges, and shredded coconut. That's the base. Other optional ingredients known to be added are sour cream, greek yogurt, pecans, grapes, bananas, or any canned fruit. It's definitely not everyone's cup of tea. The texture alone is enough to dissuade you from trying it. I'm not sure if it's a regional "delicacy", but I certainly remember seeing it at all of my childhood family reunions and holidays (I'm from the Northeast). Thankfully, it seems to have weaned its way off the menu in the last couple of years.
My family from the south usually skipped the pudding and marshmallows and would use fresh orange wedges ( peeled of course), jarred cherries, and fresh grated coconut and pineapples And it tastes so much better and had a ton less sugar lol
I get if it helps someone drink water because sometimes it’s sooo hard to drink water, it’s hard for some peoples mental health. There’s good water packets people can use that give you vitamins and hydrate you while giving you some flavour, the ones they use in the TikToks are basically not doing anything for you and can obviously harm you.
i would absolutely love to talk to one of them and have them define "water" and how their freshly mixed softdrink can be called water while tea is an entirely different thing
Tea is chemically mixed together with heat, making it a new substance, while flavored water is only mechanically mixed, it’s still two separate substances. I could be wrong tho. It’s been a minute since I took chemistry lol.
@@leanneissoboring776 the heat is mainly for extracting, especially tannins, but tea can be brewed with cold water if you're a masochist who likes weak, cold tea 😅
Yeah like some juice brands are simply just water with concentrate flavors of fruit, so do they call those water now? I’m like confused here but oh well
All I would add to this, is that maybe instead of making super chemically water they could research ways to make agua fresca or agua de sabor, here in mexico we almost never have plain water, its mostly natually flavored water with fruits or teas and its yummy !
I agree! They’re kinda defeating the purpose of water? Water is healthy as is, by adding loads of sugary syrups and powders you’re not even drinking water at that point you’re just drinking juice.
the "grandma's salad" she's talking about is a southern thing, it's called ambrosia. It's a mixture of canned fruit, jello, and marshmellow fluff, everyone's family's got their own rendition of it and it's usually served at potlucks, family reunions, and on thanksgiving. as a southerner with arfid and textural issues, it's literally my worst nightmare in terms of food, so I get why people who aren't from the south aren't into it. p.s. love the number of times you say the word "wudder" in this video, it's very amusing
omfg my dumb dumb brit brain thought it was only a thing in the sims :') that is a real thing? ok i have to try this even if it will cost a fortune due to the marshmallow fluff.
Thanks for mentioning ARFID. It's literally the first time i've met the word, i googled it and found out, that whole this time i had an eating disorder, because it's not always suppose to come from peoblems with body image! Jeez, i've got diagnosed with ADHD couple of years ago and i'm still discovering new and new ways how it affects me.
It’s actually relatively popular in California, where pistachio pineapple ambrosia is often called Watergate Salad. I love it, especially when it has chopped pecans or other nuts mixed in 😋
@@TrashpandaArt hahaha, i don't think most people in the States outside of the South know it either. My mom is Southern and when we'd visit her family growing up, someone would always bring this as a salad option lol, but one ever knows what I'm talking about in the northwest. I want some now! I hope you try it, it's so gooood!
In Sweden we have this thing called “Saft”, it’s like a syrup that comes in many different flavours (mostly berry flavours such as raspberry for example) that you mix with water. Kids really like it and they often drink it on birthday parties.
You hit the nail on the head when you said it looks like something you’d get at Starbucks. These drinks are closer to juice once you start adding all that to it. They try and justify it by saying “it’s sugar free syrup”, but honestly it’s still not good for you. As someone who doesn’t really enjoy drinking water, I understand the urge to make it fun. I’d been adding lemon to my water, and my dentist recently told me that’s likely what’s been eating away at my enamel and causing all my cavities! It sucks to not really like water, because you know you need to drink it. At the end of the day you can’t beat plain old water, and there’s just no replacing it.
Sugar free is actually worse for you because having fake replacement sweeteners, like dextrose or aspartame, actually make your body crave real sugar more.
Lol sounds weird but I can’t stand to drink tap water or water out of those metal lined hydro flask cups. I really only like super cold water bottles, and even then there’s certain brands I like more than others lol. I have my water bottle brand that I like and I love to just have that as plain water. Barely drink anything else now and not really missing out tbh
@@michaela1528 dude just start filtering your own water. it's way cheaper than buying new bottles of water every few days and you also get to control the flavour. i use a brita filter and then boil it and it's like heaven
there is just so much sugar in those add-ins. or sugar substitutes that'll probably just make you crave more sugar and other calorie sources later from how dang sweet they taste.
The pistachio pudding salad isn't just a southern thing, it's just an old lady thing. My grandma use to make it, and she's from Chicago. it was pistachio pudding mix, cool whip, maraschino cherries, marshmallows, and mine also added canned pineapple. I don't know why it's called 'salad' but it was always my favorite along with rootbeer chocolate cake 😅
Pretty sure those types of recipes used to be in magazines and on the packaging of the ingredients as a way for you to go out and buy all the other ingredients (the company usually sold at least one other ingredient mentioned in the recipe).
My grandma used to make it too, and we’re from New Jersey. I believe she called it ambrosia salad? Even though when I look that up it’s a little different, but my grandma always called ambrosia salad the pistachio salad stuff. She made it the exact same way with canned pineapple, cool whip, pistachio pudding mix, maraschino cherries, and marshmallows except she always used those little colorful fruity flavored marshmallows. I hated it as a kid because of all the different textures but tbh I feel like now I would probably like it if I made a vegan version lol
But you’re right that it’s an old people thing, I have only ever seen old people make it lol. I think it’s just one of those weird recipes from the 60s and 70s where everyone was obsessed with jello/gelatin, cool whip, canned goods, and Mayo (not that this has any Mayo but dear god every recipe from that time period was some Mayo gelatin canned fruit disaster and apparently some people DO add Mayo to this recipe 🤢) But at least this one is actually decent, it’s basically just sweet pistachio flavored cool whip with sugary fruit and marshmallows lol
@@guytrashgurtdog I totally feel that. I always had mixed feelings about ambrosia salad. It was the texture of the soggy canned pineapple. And it was always worse with the flavored marshmallows. I wouldn’t touch it
We have ‘aguas frescas’ in Mexico, water with natural fruit and often times to much sugar, that last part can be avoided tho. When I stayed in the hospital they had aguas frescas in the yard and if they were low in sugar or no sugar someone visiting could take it to your bed
@@galaxykuromi4703 No unnecessary artificial dyes, natural, no sugar unless you add it. Way healthier for you. White girls on tiktok tried to claim it as “Spa water” 🤣😭
For the "grandma's salad" at 8:00 minutes it's Watergate salad. It's a southern thing basically a pistachio pudding with a lot of marshmallows sometimes pineapples and cherries are included too. This was something my mom would bring in for big holiday dinners such as thanksgiving Christmas.
@@tatertotbobaandpieck From my experiences it's supposed to be a sweet thing to complement savoury tastes. It's basically sweet and mildly fruity but also savoury (due to the pistachio) but the texture throws it off. For me, it's one of those things where separated the ingredients are fine, (except for pistachio pudding), but together, it doesn't work. For me it's not something I would want to eat. It's similar to most southern dishes, something some people love, some people hate it, some people are in the middle.
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my main issue with watertok is basically my issue with every tiktok trend which is that it encourages so much overconsumption, like this idea that you’ve got to buy a stanley cup and an ice machine and all these specific powders and syrups and it’s not enough to just have one you’ve gotta buy them all
The woman with at least five Stanley cups and two whole cabinets dedicated to her chemical beverage obsession. why would you need that much
Its like that here too, it's usually just a case of the obsessive people just being more prevelant/shared and spread on social media when most people rarely know anyone like that in their real lives. I think social media usually mis-represents most demographics
One of the bigger reasons why I don't have Tik Tok. I hate the overconsumption aspect of it. People are struggling to get things they NEED to survive simply because a tiktok went viral and people want to get it for 'fun' or lose weight. It's crazy to me. I despise it.
I really think this point is where the claim that this is a 'white woman' thing comes from, and honestly I can see that- especially since its a repeated trend spear-headed by white women. People getting actually mad that people are doing this is weird though. It's not that deep to blow up people's comment sections because the creator calls it "water," which its not. If its water, than I'll just start calling my Canada Dry Zero sparkling water.
Same!! Like they have the same amount of syrups at home as the coffee shop I work at.
I grew up in a very, very poor family. My parents couldn't afford actual juice, so I grew up on this stuff. Its weird to me that people are just now discovering it.
That how I feel with Ramen
they aren't just now "discovering" it they're just normalizing it. before it was seen as like an alternative option and now it's seen as like the main option if that makes sense.
In my country, it's very popular, most school cantines do that, so for me it's very weird to see all these girlies discovering it like if it's a big boom. Plus most of them use so much syrup in it but still be like it's so healthy (and even though of some are sugar-free, sweeteners can still be not healthy as Annamarie said in the video).
Same!! So much powdered pink lemonade, Kool aid, and those frozen juice canister things 🤢
Damn, I was poor so just drank tap water. Still do.
honestly adding all that stuff to water and still calling it water is like making a cup of coffee and calling it hot water
honestly i think black coffee or tea would be more water than these "waters",,at least then all it is is bean or leaf water
Coffee and tea have caffeine so it’s not water. You can make herbal teas and that does count as water. I make them and chill over ice with no sugar or sweetener so it’s better than those waters but not very flavorful. Just a touch of fruit.
That's what I commented on another reaction video!! Tea and coffee are just flavoured water as well.
I think of it like horchata water, it has milk, condensed milk, blended rice and sometimes strawberries, and is still water, as a mexican, i don't see it weird
@@emomsen1089 not really, as a honduran some of us say agua de horchata not because its water, but because its refreshing like water.
It has pervaded my work now. Legit had a girl ask what I was drinking in my water bottle. I said " Water." Then she asked, "What flavor?" So I responded with "Water." She then proceeded to be dispaonted 😂
Omg noooo if anyone did thst to me in real life it'd be so disappointed in society lol
Sounds delightful! Do you know a good source for water flavoured water syrup? 😂
There is no way that happened, like how? Do like all of you just live in a place concentrated with people who only watch tiktok??? Like nobody would ever ask me that here
@@pemanilnoobit's called being a nurse in a southern hospital
@@pemanilnoobyou do know that TikTok trends end up outside of TikTok right? You also know that some adults have children who are on TikTok as well right?
"It's been a tough time for liquids on social media." Girl, you just made my day. XD
As someone who is 70% liquid I rly appreciate the representation :)
I like how they keep calling it water, but it's just kool-aid.
I saw somebody say it was gentrified kool-aid lmfaooo
Yeah if I put some sort of flavored concentrate in my water I’d call it juice instead of just water, like if you go to their house and ask for some water are they gonna ask what flavor? That’s gotta be a bit confusing for guests lmao
You know there are gonna be folk out there saying “That’s NOT Kool aid. That’s water with extra steps.”
This
To me it’s cordial lol that’s what it’s called in aus
....They done gentrified Kool-aid and are calling it water 💀
Yes!
😂
Goodbye 😭😭😭
Deadass 💀 but they won't be saying its water when they get a kidney stone from that shit 😭
I had some good water the other day. I added flour to it, then some salt, oil and yeast, let it prove for a few hours and then baked it in the oven.
It was the tastiest, fluffiest, crustiest water I ever did eat.
Damn, got a step by step? That sounds good
Ha! 😂
It's like having a salad, but it's on a hamburger. Lol
@ThatOreoBoy The point is not that they shouldn't be allowed to drink whatever they want, it's that they're still calling it 'water' when it's water plus all of the other ingredients. Like we wouldn't call a black iced coffee with flavour syrups in it 'water', but I'd argue they're made exactly the same as these concoctions.
Also, pretty sure checking sugar solution and flavourings after weight loss surgery is a little counter productive. And you're going to diminish the advantages of drinking more water by filling it with diuretics like sugar and sugar free syrups.
I put Vodka in mine😊
I think that they call it water, because it sounds much better to say "i drank 2 liters of water today" than "I had 2l of artificial sweetened soda"
Ohhhh, it’s the moral high-horse that has everybody so irritated. “I have my life together I’m so hydrated you filthy plebs drink soda and juice yikes” typa vibe in the community?
but soda is also carbonated, and contains much more sodium.
@@alexia3552 most of these girls are not like that
@ruby_josie literally. I've seen some girls call it a "beveragina" which is a cute name ❤️
I mean tbf slightly flavored water is much better compared to soda... that doesn't give someone the right to think they're "better" than soda drinkers but I don't think most are like that...
Putting syrup in water sounds like making an already melted snowcone
It’s not even water anymore 😑. Reminds me of when I was a kid and put sugar in my water.
because they are used for snowcones and other drinks, I have sugar free syrups for dieting and the watermelon torani is literally just like...slushie flavoring.
😂😂 if you've ever ordered an Italian soda at any coffee shop this flavored water is essentially what you get
Or maybe just like juice?
in germany there are special syrups to add flavour to your water. they're mostly natural and have no sugar in them usually
I personally don’t like flavored water, I like just plain cold refreshing water. I came here thinking these “watertok” people were gonna talk about different water alkalinity, pH levels, what brands are good/healthy… girl I couldn’t be more wrong 😂
Me too, I thought there was gonna be drama about tap vs bottled water, brands, mineral levels, temperature, carbonation... For me, it's gotten to a point where tap water from other regions tastes nasty to me, because I'm used to the taste of water from my muncipality, which is pumped from an aquifier dating back to the last ice age. The filtered river water coming out the pipes in most of my country's cities just can't compare.
A watertok that's actually solely about water would've been my jam, but instead we're watching people make lemonade and calling it "flavored water"
ME TOO LOL
Same b I hate all that fake sugar.
Yo same. I was prepared for that drama. Not for this lol.
Honestly it's just marketing with an extra step
You know, for everyone who is sober but miss having a pretty ‘fancy’ drink with stupid names, this trend is hopefully helpful
As a recovering alcoholic I am all for alternatives instead of consuming alcohol and it's hard not to need some kind of vice. As long as people aren't using their water mixes as a replacement for food, I don't think it's an issue.
You should look up mocktail recipes! They’re super fun. Also, coffee is fun to mess around with if you like that. Get a bunch of flavors you like and made combos every morning! Today I have a shot of caramel with vanilla creamer!
True, I love a pretty cocktail, these would be a decent alternative.
Yeah, really great point. ❤
But you can also just drink a fancy juice mixture lol. Just add sparkling water to juice and maybe a flavor or two and you have an actually good fancy drink vs pure aspartame
The amount of artificial sweeteners these women are consuming with all the sugar free syrups and powders is actually terrifying.
100% didn't the FDA just release a statement based on recent research that the long term use of artificial sweeteners is actually dangerous?
@@avamasquerade Honestly I don’t know. I just think that consuming that much of so many artificial ingredients can’t possibly be good for you. It also drives me bonkers that they’re even still calling it water. Because the only thing separating these concoctions from diet pop is carbonation.
These seem to be people who have lost a lot of their sugar taste buds from drinking a lot of soda. They literally can't taste it anymore.
@@Allycat101010 That’s probably true. It’s scary easy to build up a tolerance to sweeteners.
@@avamasquerade long term use of artificial sweeteners is still more healthy than the same amount in sugar. If you want to be even healthier, don’t have sugar or artificial sweeteners.
“fun fact: You don’t need to be named Stanley to own a Stanley cup” this was so silly it made me giggle
had my face in my hands saying "stopp!!! :3"
The thing for me is that nothing actually *quenches* my thirst except for plain water. Every other drink I consume is just for the flavor, so I'll often have plain water alongside it anyway
Same! Whenever I have tea I have to have some water with it too
@@Bea..l0v3 even with tea?? Isn't that literally just herbs with water
@@solus8685 yeah lol, mostly because if I'm pretty thirsty tea is too hot to drink immediately so I have some plain water with it
@@Bea..l0v3 ohhh yeah that makes sense lol
Same! When I just wanna drink something I may go for soda or juice but when I'm feeling thirsty it's gotta be plain water.
Honestly, I'm mainly concerned that people don't know the side effects of consuming artificial sweeteners. I'm prone to migraines, and they're one of many ingredients I've avoided for years. Companies selling these products should be required to advertise side effects the same way medical products do.
And the artifical dyed are horrible for attention span, cause insomnia. And a whole host of other side effects. I've had to train my brain tk see anything w added dye and think "death" basically haha so these are horrendous to me, bc my son has alot of behavioral issues when he consumes them
Also consuming artificial sweeteners can spike insulin (without having the sugar to offset) and lead to insulin resistance
YES 👏
Yes! I have hyperactive thyroid and have to avoid these like a plague. Consuming those lowers your blood sugar like crazy, because while the artificial sweeteners can't be dissolved by insulin, they're still sweet and it can trick your body into thinking it got sugar to release the insulin. But there's no sugar the insulin can deal with so it will target the sugar already present in your body, eating out on the rations meant for your muscles and brain. This can be dangerous, especially if you drink this on an empty stomach.
“Stanley cups are like squishmallows for MLM girlies” was the funniest thing I’ve heard all day 🤣
If you're still gonna call it "water" if you add 10 packets of flavoring, you should defintely call coffe water as well.
that is so funny
Coffee is water it's just coffee flavored water
@@Whynotcreate Technically, yes. But you can't say that you're "making your bottle of water" if you're drinking iced coffee with milk and syrup for example. 😅
Lmao fr some of these Americans wilding 😂
and DEFINITELY tea, like, you don't even leave the tea in the drink.
Doesn’t putting syrup into water just make it a soda? Like that’s literally how fountain drinks work, the syrup and water come from different containers and they get mixed together in the cup. I’m literally so confused how any of this is called water. 😂
No, you're a hundred percent on the money. While I might not call it a soda because it's not carbonated it's definitely a soft drink.
Yup, just flat soda
I think it would be considered more of a really sweet/unhealthy juice or flat soda since it usually doesn’t have carbonation
It might but soda also counts toward your water intake. Not saying it's ideal but it is hydration no matter what else is in it. (Even beer. 🤫)
My thoughts exactly! This is really a debate about when water becomes soda and nobody here was drinking healthy water.
I actually used to drink water with Skinny Syrup almost exclusively, and it kiiinda messed me up. There was a period of time where I struggled with dehydration, so I started adding these syrups to water to encourage myself to stay hydrated. I didn’t know it then, but consuming an excess of artificial sweeteners (even “healthy” ones) can have the same effect on you as actual sugar, and this led to me having to train myself out of drinking flavored waters altogether because I started craving sugary drinks even more.
It’s also fair to mention how this trend can be an enabler to people with eating disorders. Not to say it’s intentional or that everyone on WaterTok is like this, but at a certain point I definitely started believing I could use flavored waters to discourage myself from snacking or eating. It’s something you definitely need to be careful promoting,
All good points and I just want to add my personal experience, not take away from yours! :)
For me it's a bit of the opposite. I too didn't/don't like pure water too much and favour sone flavour.
I drink mainly artificially sweetened drinks during the day (though I drink mildly sparkly water during the night and that stuff I absolutely love too), but it doesn't make me want sweet stuff more at all. If anything it makes me want it less, since it already feels like I had too much sweetness (I usually prefer not sweet things a bit).
So, overall it doesn't change my craving for sugar, but whenever I want to, I can lower the craving with artificially sweetened drinks.
The eating disorder point is a VERY good one! I can absolutely see how people could easily use this stuff to avoid eating/consuming anything real. Some put a single, crumbled up cookie, in several ice cube moulds, fill it with water, freeze it and eat it as "dessert" (or the whole "meal"). Imagine using even less cookie, if any and some sweetener for that. It would definitely "work" for too many.
To add to the ED thing, it reminds me of when I would take a bite of something and try to reframe things so that I wouldn't feel guilty. It is diet culture to make a completely different food/drink and call it what it's not. The difference is these are inherently more unhealthy than plain water, so they're like the reverse of those people who eat pieces of lettuce and call it chips.
For me I have no problem with the girlies doing their thing and making drink mixes to their hearts content. My very literal autistic brain’s only issue is them continuing to call it “water” because after a certain point it just doesn’t seem like it can be called that anymore but other than that, more power to them!
The “drink” lady had it right in my goofy little nd brain
Exactly! If I jumped on tiktok and said my favorite flavor of ice cream is a handful of m and ms, I can't be surprised when people tell me I'm wrong
They need to just drink soda
Fr, just call it a juice or smthn, a lot of its basically just fancy kool-aid
Exactly. I am about truth and calling things what they are. This just bothers me
I never thought that those little Mio or Skittles flavouring squirt bottles at Walmart would ever become "fancy" nor get their own page on tiktok
literally!! i use mio when im trying to cut back on soda (im prone to getting kidney stones, so if im getting too stressed out i switch over to flavored waters any time id want soda as to not make it worse, since those are the 2 causes of mine, stress being the main)
@@cosphotographs Me too! It does help me cut down on soda, but I hate how my family keep buying more soda. They just. Keep. Tempting. Me. 😭
Yeah, they're "Southern fancy" which is its own kind of fancy.
(::whispers:: Not fancy at all...)
@@cosphotographs truthfully i drink prime when i work out but I'd never say that it's fancy
@@ChristopherSadlowski not from a Jersey pole go eat a sausage or something luv
i knew tiktok subcategories/communities could be literally anything, yet i'm still shocked to see that watertok is a thing.
edit- flabbergasted that people recognized my pfp tbh
Ay a given pfp
Yeah literally just think of a verb and I guarantee it has a community
@@GiornoLovesDeathGrips JJBA PFP
@@needmoresnacks theres probably a such thing as walgreenspainkillertok
based haruki pfp
I'm autistic and growing up our tap water wasn't safe to drink and my parents made the choice to buy soda instead. so changing to drinking water when I grew up was hard, and I use flavoring to make it easier. I reuse a $12 cup I got while I was working at Spirit Halloween, and use one type of flavoring over and over as well using a Brita filter now. I've felt a lot healthier and now treat monsters and sodas as an occasional treat. having the flavoring has helped me a lot, but I entirely agree it can be taken too far. From the overconsumption to the risk of causing disordered eating, its important to moderate yourself and make sure you're not unintentionally harming yourself.
awesome video as always :)
Geez… I can’t imagine not being able to drink your own tap water… thank god for Brita filters or I’d been the same at my dorms. (It was still iffy but I boiled most of it to make tea). Tap water shouldn’t ever be unsafe or even just gross to drink.
@@mad_hatt it's awful to think many are left without fresh drinking water from the tap, as a kid it was strange knowing entire cities and even countries experience the same thing I did on a much larger scale. I'm incredibly grateful to have been able to move and get a Brita filter, I feel so much better these days. but I'll always remember what that was like, and ache for those in similar situations
Glad to hear I’m not the only one! Also ND here! 🙋🏻My parents raised me on soda and juice concentrate so I literally can’t drink plain water without wanting to throw up it’s so gross, doesn’t matter what brand, temperature, etc. and no lemon is not enough. Water tastes like spit and plastic to me. 🙏🏻 the closest I’ve gotten is propel. I drink that and iced tea. People think it’s weird, which I guess it is, but I can’t help the 🤢 when it hits my tongue
Fun fact: I actually did some research on adding flavor packets to water when I ran out of real juice for my water and found water was boring and the flavor packets add a bunch of sugar as well as change your tongue because it becomes used to the sugary sweet water to the point that it finds regular water boring and it's really hard to revert back to drinking regular water once you flavor your water daily for a certain amount of time
I was using the packets, they made my tounge sore and messed up my stomach.
It's 0 sugar and 10 calories for the water flavoring packets I use for working out. They're Great Value. I put 2 in a 24oz blender bottle to cover "unflavored" EAAs from Bulksupplements. I'd say that even if there's a minute bit of sugar in water flavoring, it's nothing compared to consuming sodas. Or even Gatorade. So in the long run it's an improvement. They're drinking no caffeine (except some packets do contain caffeine) and a lot less sugar and calories than what's in soft drinks etc. It's actually healthier. Maybe not if you use the entire packet in a Stanley Cup though. Idk about that cause that just seems insane. 2 in a 24ox blender bottle is enough to mostly cover up the flavor of pure amino acids so I can't imagine why they'd dump that much into water but to each their own. As long as the overconsumption doesn't lead to a shortage cause I can't stomach unflavored EAAs by themselves. It's like a multivitamin dissolving on your tongue.
@@bbspooks
From what I read even if there isn't a lot of sugar it can still change your tongue and make it harder for you to enjoy regular water without flavoring because your tastebuds are altered from the taste to become used to the flavoring and not plain water which is overall much healthier for you than any additives or flavor packets in the long run regardless
@Fangirl-inator109 that's flavor in general that does that to your tongue. Sour candy, hot sauce, pickled ginger. There's so many things that aren't inherently terrible for you that effect your taste. If you consume sugar daily, something unsweetened will taste awful. Compared to someone who doesn't consume sugar much, will find something stevia sweetened or perhaps dark chocolate more sweet than bitter where the consistent sugar intaker will find dark chocolate unbearably bitter. (Talking 75%+ dark chocolates.)
@Fangirl-inator109 like I said the additives might not be the BEST but it's a BETTER ALTERNATIVE. Still better than soda or Gatorade.
Besides some water isn't even healthy for you. Some tap water is contaminated. Some people pay out the ass for alkaline water when it can be harmful because or bodies already do the job of balancing our ph level. Consuming alkaline water can disrupt the balance. Watch Huberman on optimum hydration. Spring water is the best and healthiest water as it has the required minerals to be ACTUAL water.
That said, the water flavorings aren't that bad in the long run. If you're concerned about additives, you'd have to be concerned about like 99.9% of what the average developed country consumes. Almost everything has additives, hormones, antibiotics, or pesticides now. Unless you're raising your own meat, dairy, vegetables, fruit, and have your own spring water well: you're not erasing all of the "bad things" we can consume. The goal is to make it better than before.
Therefore if water flavorings are assisting people to drink water with flavor packets vs grams on grams of sugary drinks or sodas, then what's the ACTUAL harm?? It's obvious weighing it out that these benefits mean more than a couple of additives. I'd argue these packets have less additives than a can of even DIET Coke.
And of we get down right into actual science: water isn't what's keeping us hydrated. Fluids are. Water is A fluid. Not the only fluid. Electrolytes keep us hydrated. Water is healthy but there's no inherent benefit of PURIFIED water. Spring water has minerals. It's the minerals within the water that has health benefits. That come from rocks and the ground the spring it's bottled from runs through. Purified water is stripped of all these minerals and nutrient value. Even if you drank 2L of water a day you could still get dehydrated without the proper balance of electrolytes going back into you body. The can depend on your activity level because electrolytes have to be replaced a certain % of what's sweat out through exercise. I could go on but all I'm saying is water flavoring and griping over the "unhealthiness" of it is absolutely trivial and nonsensical.
Why does one want to shame the "health" factor of how another consumes water? I don't understand. We should be happy they just drink water anyways. Despite the fact the argument of "water is healthy" can go down further rabbit holes of "not all water is actually healthy."
I'd be more concerned over the fact Tiktok trends create overconsumption which causes supply, demand, and economical strains on products and goods these days. It's consumerism on steroids.
water recipe tier list, I'm begging you.
collect a few of them and do a taste test, because this is such a weird and wild trend, you know theres some crazy flavoured waters out there
Yes this would be so entertaining
omg i would love if she did this
666 likes!!!!! woohoo! not gona ruin it!
I would love for this
I want this I need it….
Birthday cake 👀👀👀👀
Drinking these and saying it's water is like giving your children ultra-concentrated nesquick with their breakfast every day and saying it's milk - like yeah,, it's certainly an ingredient within the cup lol
One thing that may be contributing to this being particularly popular in the south (particularly in more rural areas from the sound of it) is that most of the time our tap water is discussing, primarily lake and well water, it’s why we drink a lot of ice tea and lemonade and keep our drinks cold cold cold to make it taste less vile, adding flavor has been a thing for decades down here this is just the latest version.
I grew up on a farm in the midwest and i fucking love well water. Gimme them minerals
@@bigmanbigpants2293 yeah no, I mean more like when the lakes turn in the summer (the day time heat causes currents that churn the lakes and stir up silt and debris on the lake bed) the tap water tastes the way a poorly maintained grocery store fish counter smells.
Sweet tea shold be a prisonable offence. What's wrongwithnregular iced tea, traitors?
@@bigmanbigpants2293Our well water in Michigan was heavy on Sulfur. Couldn't keep my clothes white which sucked for work uniforms and it tasted nasty.
I'm from the midwest, and the specific area I grew up in has literally some of the best tasting water in the country. Even where I currently live, which has decent quality tap water, I can't stand it because it tastes like a pool to me. Hell, there's only one brand of BOTTLED water I actually like and is sold here, and it's one of the more expensive ones(Fiji). Flavored beverages are a godsend for me as I can only get so much Fiji all the time, lol.
imagine you’re really thirsty and your friend has their water with them. you ask if you can have a sip, and they say sure. and what you end up getting is birthday cake water. you throw up on ur friend and end the friendship.
💀 thank you for this
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⭐️ nice comment
dramatic tbh
I WOULD at least gag.🎉😢. Yuck
What happened to cucumber water or lemon lime orange slices or putting a bunch of random berries in a pitcher of water to add flavor? Plus it gives you fruit to munch on as well.
These people would probably say it's not strong enough tasting
Right? I was wondering the same thing, since that's usually what I do when I need to add a little flavor to my water to motivate myself to drink more. I love squeezing lemons - just regular lemons - into my water. I also drink those water infusers, which is basically just iced tea packets, but still good. But I also hate things that are overly sweet, so looking at these "water" flavors just make me gag a little.
@@beck-nightengale literally, my college used to have 2-3 infused waters in one of the dining halls, and I loved filling up my water bottle there at breakfast. It usually lasted until around lunch, too, when I could fill up again. And if I did run out, there were plenty of regular water fountains around that I used.
With everything they're adding to their water it's juice at best, or a sports drink/flat soda at worst.
They want the sugar, they just don't want to admit that they do
I still do this lol
I feel like they should be called Refreshers, like how Starbucks has their, because it’s made out of a water base
That's different though- the base for refreshers is made out of green coffee beans
They should have just called them something magical like potions. Huge marketing miss imo.
When I get an ice tea at a cafe they just put a couple of pumps of some syrup then just water and that’s it
Idk how to tell you this but every drink has water in it
The pistachio, cherry and marshmallow salad is called Watergate salad. I never used cherries, but i love making it for thanksgiving or potlucks. My family calls it Green Stuff.
Fun Fact! Watergate salad got its name because it was made during the Watergate scandal, and it was "on the tips of everyones tongues at the time"
As a Californian, I’ve called it Ambrosia salad !
@@Lyrical_Ari we also have a slightly different version we call ambrosia! that one has mandarin oranges and sometimes coconut in addition ;3
my mom hates drinking water to the point where she goes days without drinking anything but sodas and coffee. her doctor literally recommended flavored water packets like mio, crystal light, etc. because she would be actually drinking more water. and it worked! she drinks way more water now than she did before.
Same, unflavored water is literally nauseating for me 😹
I dont really like the flavored water, but it’s better than dehydration
This is me. Plain water activates my gag reflex and everyone acts like I’m so weird and it’s annoying af sometimes. Especially when they tell me to just drink water because I won’t and these packets are the only way I actually can get water into me so fuck those people that are rude about it tbh. I feel that I’ve found my people lol
I didn't drink straight water more than a few times a year until like last year.
I don't feel any healthier, and I haven't lost reasonable weight.
Y’all’s pee must smell incredibly strong
There's actually these smell packets that give the illusion of flavored water that you can put on specific water bottle that are interesting. I don't know if they work, but it seems like the best way to protect from overusing artificial sugars.
My dad had a work colleague who was known around the office for having crippling headaches around the same time every day, and having to go take a nap to get through them. To cut a very long story short it turned out she was substituting meals for water to lose weight, and she was drinking something insane like 5 litres of water a day. She had water intoxication and was nearly hospitalised.
Bro what? Bet she spent like half the work day at the toilet too. I drink like two liters of water when I work at home and I have to stand up like 5x times a day just to pee ☠️ poor girl, hope she's doing better.
Dry drowning. Yikes.
Some people need to learn “everything in moderation”
WATER INTOXICATION???? Im not hating in any way I just didn’t know that’s a thing
@@reeeew_222
Yes! It’s super bad!
It causes disturbances in electrolyte balance, resulting in a rapid decrease in serum sodium concentration. Brain swelling and eventual death.
As someone who struggles with my relationship with food (recovered/recovering from an ED), I’m just afraid that this will be like a breakfast or lunch substitute for girls who have the issues I used to have. We would flavor ice and suck on it instead of eating. It was weird now that I look back on it.
I'm so proud of you for making it this far in recovery
DUDE, its like chewing gum instead of eating food but on steriods cuz this makes it AeSTheTic, and stupid stuff like that. like how only eating 3 salads and doing intense workouts or cardio is seen as what people should strive for in their health. surprise, athletes actually eat a lot more to supplement their body mass and they need more energy to do more intense things. take care people, and make sure to drink water.
yall.. ate popsicles?
@@innocehnt75 we would ONLY eat these homemade, sugar free popsicles as our breakfast/lunch. As in it replaced both meals.
@@hecknfrick4236 thank you!
Something I gotta mention is from my own childhood: If your family couldn’t get a specific juice and you were a VERY picky child (literally would just not eat because eating food I hated made me physically uncomfortable), Crystal Light was pretty useful. So I only knew of it in that context. Juice replacement when juice isn’t available. It’s really weird finding out it was actually a diet thing lol.
Crystal lightttttttttttttttttttttt, fuck I miss that
I have an eating disorder that makes the exact same way (shout-out to my autism frfr)
I think my main confusion around watertok is that it’s always been a thing in other countries to have powdered drink mixes / cordials etc. And it’s always been that once you add these things to water, it no longer makes them water. Like if you add pink lemonade mix to water it doesn’t make it “pink lemonade water” it makes it pink lemonade. I do appreciate the effort that people put into these drinks, but I can’t get behind calling them water. It’s so confusing to me as a non-American
It’s like coffeetok where people add things to coffee… the base is the root. You really don’t think Americans have drink mixes? Why are y’all so ignorant
@@xocreme No, because water is the absolute base for all consumable liquids. If what you are saying is correct then coffeetok should also be watertok because the base is water.
Honestly yeah. In my country we mainly have fruit powder packets called 'raro' and yeah, if you add those to water you don't call it water anymore, you call it 'raro'
@@bluebird1914 exactly! the point is if you add anything to water it’s not water anymore 🤦♀️
This! I’m from the Netherlands and these are just weird forms of limonade to me!
and here I thought watertok was going to be comparing different bottled waters, waters from tap, water from mountain streams, and debunking the myth of "ph/ionized water"
the water from nuclear reactor pools 😋
I think you're looking for r/hydrohomies
literally me too
Forget tide pods, I'm drinking tide pools
Same! Thought it was gonna be like martin riese 😂
Thanks for calling them "Mocktails" cause that's what I was thinking the whole time. Flavored water has never appealed to me, I'd just as soon have a glass of juice to avoid the fake sugar after taste. But be ups to the people who are quitting drinking alcohol by replacing it with something probably better for you. Also, Tanya has big time cool mom vibes imo, seems fun
As someone who hates flavored water, the fact that theres a whole fandom about dumping a bunch of artificial sweeteners and syrups to their water is absolutely baffling to me
Same, I’ve tried to drink the flavor packet drinks so many times and I’ve never been able to finish one 😂
@Claire.Chenault The only one I can drink is that True Citrus ones. The other ones have a weird after taste.
I couldn't care less about what people put in their water to drink it, what baffles me though is how they can insist to still call it water!
Then beer is water and coffee and tea and lemonade and broth and just about everything of that vague realm.
I wish I could drink just plain ass water but I literally cant due to my POTS I have to use propel or other electrolyte powders in my water
what throws me off abt the stanley cups and watertok is the fact that they own so many but also that most of them just dump single-use plastic water bottles into their stanleys which defeats the ENTIRE purpose
Omg that annoys me so much! Whenever I see that I shake my head in disappointment.
I’m a nurse who regularly takes care of patients recovering from bariatric surgery and I gotta say the medical information in this video is very accurate.
Oh my gosh thank you. I had WLS almost 10 years ago and all this water TikTok makes me go nuts.
You’re discouraged from using straws….
@Taryn Elise really? I knew straws are bad when you have like mouth surgery but I didnt know it was bad with wls too.
@Taryn Elise I'm a Bari patient and use straws every single day. We were discouraged from using straws in the first 12mos. Fair game after that. No negative impact from using straws.
Yea, my mom and I had it 3 years ago. They discourage using straws in the beginning, something to do with air bubbles in your now smaller stomach, I think? If you chug water, it won't stay down.
It was all about the Hydroflask a couple years ago. Consumerism amirite?
ikr! the only difference is that they’re slightly different shapes LOL
@@lamibonxd I’m a water bottle ho just because I love drinking water and legitimately switch out every other day or so to wash but the way people jump brands like this is just so funny to me. I’m super picky about having a straw but I like the built in ones that like flip out so I’ve had some I haven’t liked and once I got one I loved I bought a few. So I’m not even saying like don’t buy water bottles. BUT THE WAY SHE HAS A STANLEY WATER BOTTLE SHELF HAD ME ON THE FLOOR. Especially with the way they’re set up all facing the right way it’s obviously an aesthetic thing and it’s just so strange 😂
I feel like the only one who still loves mine
i just got myself a hydro flask this year bc they seemed better quality to me than other options. i love it and i can’t even imagine getting a different one just because it’s a more popular brand
@@genevievepavlak5803 I still love my Hydroflask!!
The lil boston way you say “wa-tuhr”, “auffur”, “aulso”- my echolalia loves you 😂❤😂
Watertok feels like being a kid making “potions” out of water and other stuff in the fridge-
Or mixing sodas to get new tastes.
As someone with thyroid issues, I was told by my doctor to avoid all artificial sweeteners, as many of them impact thyroid function (it's not well understood as far as I know, but it seems to cause inflammation of the thyroid). In fact, part of what made us realize I'd inherited my mom's thyroid problems was when I drank half a diet coke and was sick for a full day afterwards. So if you tend towards thyroid issues, please be careful!
Do you have hypo or hyper? I have hypo and was using artificial sweeteners to cut down on cals because my hypo got me fat lol
@Skylar I have hyper! I think they told me to avoid them specifically because mine is caused by inflammation so we're actively avoiding anything that could cause more inflammation, but it's always good to keep an eye out just in case you're one of the unlucky few it affects!
This is something I've never heard of! Guess I'll have to look into whether or not it interacts with Hashimotos, I always feel kinda blah so it's hard to ever pin down a source 😁
@@darkshadowrule2952 Hashimoto's as well, I wouldn't know if artificial sweeteners impact thyroid function since in Europe, most artificial sweeteners are banned.
Thank you for sharing this!
Flavoring your water like this is probably fine if you’re trying to wean off drinking too much soda or coffee, but definitely not a long-term thing. When I was trying to stop drinking two coffees a day, I started with tea with sugar, then tea with honey, then tea, then nothing.
I really feel like all the sugar they're putting in just negates the idea of those waters being more "healthy."
Yeah that doesn't work when you're autistic lmfao
@@Arosukir6 the flavorings have no sugar.
Yeah i did the same with these flavored powders, I gradually added less powder and now only drink water with the occasional flavor pack or sometimes a soft drink.
Nothing? Not even water? Also what’s wrong with tea?
The pistachio marshmallow cherry salad is a fruit salad from the south called ambrosia salad, it usually also has coconut, mandarin oranges, and cool whip among other fruits.
I'm from the PNW and my grandma and dad always made this. Every family get together one or both would bring it. I love it honestly haha.
Ohhhh that’s what it is! I was thinking “that sounds weird” but I think I’ve heard of ambrosia salad before.
As someone who loves tap water, and doesn't do a lot of flavorings or soda, in moderation this is great. The issue is that WaterTok (like any TikTok trend) promotes an idea, even subconsciously, that you need all of it and it needs to become your personality...this is now the only thing you can drink, you must dedicate your kitchen to the water closet (or whatever that one lady called it), and you must become the water...
Literally no one promotes that. Some of you have weak minds and blame everyone else but your selfs for it.
@Duhbaby2348h I agree. It's not their personality people really make videos that fit in a certain category because that's how people consume content. That's like saying a cooking channel is the person's whole personality because because they excited about their kitchen appliances and storage.
Damn, I was waiting for you to talk about the weird amount of watertok folks that pour bottles of water INTO a reusable cup. That’s my biggest issue with some of them. 😅😅
Tap water is often unsafe to drink
There are still better ways to get safe drinking water tho
@@silvercloudsone Not in the Nordics
@@silvercloudsone not often
@@silvercloudsone tap water is often more regulated than bottled water
I feel like turning your water into a sugary concontion that's basically just flat soda defeats the purpose of drinking water. But hey, if they like it and it makes them happy, more power to them.
I just can’t help but think about their poor teeth. “But doc i drink plenty of water!”
But i also could never. Aspartame is the devil for me xD
Yeah more power to them until they get diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
@Eeep considering they use sugar free mixes I don't think they're gonna get diabetes
More POWDER to them ahaha
I wish they’d just drink soda at this point it’s so much less fucking wasteful
My 62 yr old mom went through this phase in 2002, especially crystal lite. I can't believe ppl are still into this.
I just like plain water, but I'm a heretic
I appreciate how organized the water girl's kitchens are though. I throw everything in a cupboard and spend an hour looking for everything.
Might be because they have a lot of time on their hands and some sort of urge to be creative. I find that my house is suuuper organised in some sort of visually pleasing way if I’m not working much.
Yeah, I'm not big on extreme consumerism, but I gotta say I do enjoy the aesthetic of these places
i think the eating disorder criticism is especially valid as filling up on water is definitely a thing. i used to do it and now i can't really drink plain water sometimes because it brings back all those feelings so i see how flavoured water being 'trendy' would make it easier for someone with an ED to, well, not recover. it's really a double edge because for some people flavoured water helps to stay hydrated and for others it helps to stay malnutrioned (idk if that's the right word but you get the point).
true. that's kind of the thing for all food related topics though. some people will benefit from it, while some are at risk of exacerbating their conditions.
yeah i can see pro ana tumblr taking over this trebe
it seems like some of them are doing it to hydrate but its not helping them. They're increasing their sweet tooth while increasing their sugar intake. Is that really gonna help in the long run?
I'm just a huge fan of flavored water (and a lot of juice etc) because I don't like plain tap water.
I don't have syrups so I've been using emergen-C and mio 😊
in my opinion, if tea is a different drink than water, then these watertok creations are a different drink than water
Tea is infinitely closer to water than half of these drinks.
Exactly !!!
@@GogiRegion agreed!
The water bars look fun. The act of mixing up your drink and making new flavors and having all these cute little bottles and shelves and stuff? That looks so delightful! I can totally understand why people enjoy that!
I also understand why people are grossed out by it. I have ARFID and the idea of actually consuming any of those syrups makes me physically ill. But like... It's not my body, so what do I care? I also feel sick when people eat guacamole, that doesn't mean they're wrong lol
As for the debate of whether or not it can still be considered water:
I'd definitely call these beverages, and afaik beverages are, by definition, drinks that are not water. That being SAID. This question is of about as much consequence as the "Is water wet?" debate, which is entirely pointless and only asked for fun.
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@@lemonmeat always has been, always will be lmao. Also love your username. Happy lesbian visibility week!
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I had bariatric surgery and let me tell you the community is RIDDLED with disordered eating. One of the main things is that post op you’re told by professionals that you can NEVER have “bad” foods again or you’re a screw up. They teach patients actual behaviors that are literally ana behaviors (obsessive chewing, 800 cal a day etc) but because the medical consensus is still quite fatphobic it doesn’t matter.
This is why I went to a nutritionist when it came to me dealing with BED. Gave me a meal plan for life based on my ethnicity, budget, and resources and needs. It was very helpful and taught me that eating 3 meals a day is not a crime and will actually help me more .
This!
This may sound problematic, but with your explanation wouldn’t adding heavy syrups and artificial flavors be seen as still “bad foods” by doctors ?
@@100Stratusfiedx it's more about the calories per day thing, which is a really messed-up idea and itself, but a lot of "fitness/fat loss experts" will put a huge emphasis on Calorirs instead of health
Don’t they encourage minimal calories because your stomach has been surgically made smaller?
My aunt had to lose weight to get the surgery and then after she got it had to watch what she ate or she’d get sick.
As for the foods hopefully they teach how to cook good food that’s satisfying. I think most processed foods should just be avoided in general tho even if you’re thin they’re full of things we don’t need at all.
I won’t lie. I weaned myself off juice to drinking more water. I began diluting juice with water over several month. It got to the point to where I drank 25% juice, mixed with 75% plain water. I eventually got off juice and ended up drinking more plain water. Once in a while I still crave something else other than water, so I go for those squeeze flavorings to add to my water. The difference is I add such little flavoring where I still enjoy the slight flavor to my water. The watertoks seem to add sooooo much flavoring and added syrup, which defeats the whole purpose of water. Isn’t that how companies make juice anyway? Great video. Loved it.
Mixing water with natural apple juice 3:1 actually makes a healthy isotonic drink, perfect for post workout refreshment.
I should try that instead of flavoring my water with crystal light. I struggle SO BADLY with just drinking plain water. I can’t drink water unless it’s ice cold, but even that’s a struggle because I have such an unhealthy addiction to soda. I can’t do sparkling water because it has no flavor. I definitely want to drink more water again so I can get healthy again and lose weight. Thank you for the suggestion!
@@reda-exe I meant natural juice, no added sugar, ideally not from a concentate, but bottled as is comes out of the fruits.
@@reda-exe When you work out, your body is taking energy from your glycogen storage, which is the stored form of glucose, aka sugar. Glucose, which comes from carbohydrates, is your body's main source of energy. Consuming carbohydrates, like through sugar (natural or added) will help you replenish your glycogen storage. Of course, juice with no added sugar is likely more nutrient dense. Long story short: juice, added sugar or not, can be a great post-workout pick me up💪(or even mid-workout if your planning a looong work out)
I did the same thing! I never hear anyone else recommending diluting juice, but it worked. Plain water is so refreshing and (oddly) flavorful to me now, and if I do drink juice, it's too sweet for me if it's not diluted. Going from a ton of sugary drinks to plain water is bound to feel weird for people, but the less sugar you have, the less you want it, so weaning yourself off really is the way to go imo. These "waters" would be great for going from soda to plain water, but yeah, drinking them all the time and adding a tonnnnn of flavoring isn't quite the right idea.
5:15I work at a roadside ice cream place, and we use those pump syrups a LOT. And let me tell ya, we use half a pump for a 16 ounce milkshake, and some people tell us it’s too strong and sweet. So I don’t know how they consume that amount of it without gagging.
That’s what I was thinking! I have these syrups for making espresso and I can only use like 2 small spoons in a big cup before it’s overpoweringly sweet. When I saw the woman use 6 pumps in plain water I nearly gagged.
As someone from Oklahoma, my great grandma used to make the salad she was talking about with marshmallows and it was delicious, but hearing it put into a drink sounds atrocious 😭
im also from OK and i have never heard of it but it sounds delicious
@@dumbnoodleman We have it in Indiana. Mostly older people eat it
I'm also from OK and I remember it, but my family never actually made it, it was usually at potlucks
I'm from Tennessee, but I've definitely had it at some church potlucks
From Tennessee and definitely have had that "salad" the thought of drinking it turns my stomach though.
You know, as much as the concept of these syrupy waters makes me nauseated, I love that these women are finding little things that make them happy. Life is so fucking dreadful and awful sometimes. I'm a cosplayer. I find magic in little things all the time because I use escapism to an extreme degree. I put on my silly little wigs and my silly little costumes and I pretend shit isn't terrible by running around a convention center full of other people in silly little wigs. For these women, if their colorful Red Lake 40 sugar water makes them happy, then by all means.
EXACTLYY
Yeah man, I drink plenty myself, but it’s alcohol, and I love a pretty cocktail - I’d imagine the syrup/water mix is better for people than that, and at least it’s hydrating (though I think sugar is dehydrating so it depends a bit on the ratio 🤔).
But yeah, it would be too much for me to have over and over, but fuck it, this feels like a situation that very much calls for a
“let people enjoy things”. 🤷🏻♀️🍹
They're excitement is kind of cute especially the lady at the 9:48 mark
this attitude in the face of capitalism isolating us from each other and our selves will only result in increasing consumption to fill the emptiness. Idk if this is the way forward
I just don't like it because I have texture issues, it's the same reason I can't drink a melted slushie, my brain doesn't like that it's flavored and has the consistency of water. "It tastes like a smoothie, why doesn't it feel like a smoothie, get rid of it."
As a person with an eating disorder, I used to drink an insane amount of water every day to lose weight. The problem with these videos is it’s giving people a perfect gateway into disordered eating
That’s what influencers are FOR 😂
yeah i think my biggest issue is the normalization of "have the thing you love without it actually being it!" bc that's how a LOT of proana creators get you. they tell you that you can have anything without gaining weight and that you'll be 'obsessed and addicted' when it's something natural. im gonna say this as someone who for a long time now has suffered with eating, a lot: drink what you want and eat what you want and do not manifest yourself a problem. if you're healthy and don't need these solutions do not use them. most of them are just not okay and need to vent it somewhere.
@@juicyboxesxo periodt! healthy people should not be trying to somehow make themselves “healthier” with interventions that obviously aren’t meant for them
truly reminded me of my ED recipes when i was actively struggling with AN. like i never want to accuse someone of having an ED bc it could be projection, right, but this certainly feels like a gateway - especially with how the tiktok algorithm works.
I didn't realize me drinking a lot of water when I was younger so O didn't need to eat was considered disordered eating
im fascinated by the vowel you use in "water", "loss", "lost", "autoimmune", "also". and how it's not there in "tiktok" or "tonya"
and "asked"!!! what an interesting way to say "asked"!!
7 pumps of flavoring is what goes in a starbucks trenta (32 oz instead of 35 oz) the birthday cake water contains as much syrup as a starbucks drink. that has to be so so so sickeningly sweet.
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watertok is my biggest guilty pleasure. i don't think i'd enjoy the drinks they make but their enthusiasm when they mix up their potions is very entertaining. Also the replies to people who poke fun at them are especially fun to watch.
i love discourse that is completely removed from my own life
YES i love scrolling through as if i’m observing people in another world.
Your honesty is refreshing 😅
It's the aggression from the watertok girlies that gets me. I'm all for making something easier for you to drink, plenty of us need more hydration. Though water flavoring packets have been around for fucking ever, so I'm confused how people are acting like it's brand new and unheard of.
*But you can't pour in a kool-aid packet and then get mad when people call it kool-aid*
Edited to add: I was reminded of a health issue I went through around 14-15 with acute acid reflux that then developed into vomiting at random throughout the day. It interefered with my regular life. Multiple doctirs identified my continuous consumption of sugar free water packets. A month after fully cutting them out was when I finally started feeling better. Overconsumption truly is harmful.
For real, we literally used these packets as a kid to make koolaid and lemonade. And it wasn’t watered down either. There was no flavor difference. Like I understand being upset at all the criticism, but why get so aggressively defensive
Like these "recipes" would be fine in moderation! Or hell, even if they just admitted they were basically making homemade, uncarbonated soda. But their need to claim they're being ~healthy~ by drinking water just drives me nuts.
I might have given myself a kidney stone with how much flavored water I was drinking. I would buy the lemondade mix that looks like the tang containers. Almost all of that is sugar.
@@HeyLeFay agree 100% like using these recipes to replace an alcoholic beverage or reduce your soda or caffine intake because it replaces that fun drink for you makes sense but to call it water and replace all your daily water intake and cal it heathy is wild ahah
Nobody in this video said it was something new or that they invented it, and the most animated response to criticism in the video specifically included the statement that they don’t claim to have invented it? I guess you’re talking about stuff you’ve seen elsewhere that the creator didn’t react to in the video?
I didn’t see anyone try my favorite water recipe, two hydrogens and one oxygen. 😢
The “grandma’s salad” is called Watergate salad. Its a Easter dessert. She left out the part where all of those ingredients are mixed with whipped cream. It sounds gross but it’s so good 😅😂
Thanks, Nixon …
Woaaah… I’m canadian, and a little high atm.. and that sounds wild. Why call a dessert a salad?
@@CatBarefieldit’s basically just a mix of things ya chop up
Like fruit salad
I think its also called ambrosia salad
When I was younger my mom would take me a little picnic lunches during the summer and I always got Watergate salad. It’s been so long since I’ve had it though :(
They are basically making their own diet sodas.
Flavored water, imo, is water with some cut up fruit or herbs in it.
I do think it's silly to call what is essentially juice "water" but let's be real I love my crystal light raspberry green tea
That’s what I was thinking this whole time, is this not just juice??? Like if I put a crystal lite packet in a water bottle I’m not gonna keep calling it water, it’s juice now
Right?! It's just...so confusing. It feels like a way to feel special, or worse, to grift people. Folks say "well it's water first, and then you flavor it," but like that's how a lot of juices and even sodas are made! If you look at the ingredients list, which is usually ordered by most-used to least-used, water is almost always first, even before whatever fruit juice was used.
It's one thing if all they're doing is putting in sugars. Then it's sugar water. But the ones with packets are just juice!
I get the reasoning, like if you flavor your coffee, it's still coffee. It's just that the amount of shit they're putting in there is daunting, so it's not even flavored water anymore
@@TheMoonlightMage sparkling water is often flavored. Once something is then sweetened and dyed, it's obviously juice but health nuts be like
Fr like, I guess "soft drink" doesn't roll off the tongue as well as just "water" but like... adding syrups and flavors to water makes it a soft drink. Water is just water.
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First of all, when I was in the darkest part of my ED, I was smashing out sugar-free cordial etc because it was "guilt-free", 0-10 calories at most, and it felt like I was not depriving myself. I loved that. Craving chocolate? Cookies? Even a damn banana? It's okay, just have some sugar-free cordial!
Tonya saying she does not want to promote disordered eating and self-image is all well and good, but ultimately she IS promoting sugar-free "guilt-free" drinks as a substitute for GODDAMN WATER as a woman who has lost a substantial amount of weight. Don't get me wrong - I am excited for her as she has obviously gotten a new lease on life etc. But it's the same way that Optifast (meal replacement shakes, people about to undergo bariatric surgery here in Australia need to be on a strict weight loss regimen with them for 2~ weeks before the surgery to minimise their weight beforehand) is often used by people with eating disorders. Coloured, pretty, delicious water? Sounds *easy* to replace meals with. It's upsetting to see this being a trend as something that helped me destroy my health for years. Also, she *does* tag her videos as #weightloss #weightlossinspo. I just watched a few of her water recipe videos (honestly as many as I could stomach to watch, so it was like 2.5?) And she does NOT speak about how this should not be used as a meal replacement, or the importance of balanced nutrition at all.
Also, I'm the opposite of a "chemicals = bad" person, but putting like 6 pumps of artificial sweetener in water just to get barely half of your daily intake is... nauseating
Anyone promoting any kind of weight loss would potentially trigger someone with an eating disorder. It's unfortunate, but also we can't ask everyone to walk on eggshells. I have a binge eating disorder and I found that working out helps relieve some of my anxiety and reduces the chances of binging. I usually go on IG to watch some of my favorite influencers who I can relate to and it motivates me to do things like go on a walk on during times that I may feel down. Someone with orthorexia may watch the same video that inspired me and feel triggered instead. You can't please/help everyone. There was this shirt that went viral years ago that said "have you eaten today?" it was meant to support those with anorexia, but it could also be triggering to someone with binge eating disorder as there is a lot of shame around eating. People with BED didn't demand that they stop selling the shirt. If it's helping someone, then good. It's on each individual to deal with their own shit. She's helping and inspiring so many people who deal with weight loss and sugar addiction.
That is what I was thinking. She says she isn't promoting diet culture in her vids but then tags them as #weightloss which seems completely hypocritical.
As a nurse, I recommend you become an interpreter for patients who are trying to understand medical jargon bc holy shit that was impressive.
i'm a current bariatric patient and most people don't know that a lot of our stomachs can't handle plain water for some reason. for the first 2 months after surgery, plain water made me extremely nauseous (luckily it has subsided for me but some people have it for longer). i just drank gatorade during that time, but that's one reason why the watertok girlies make these concoctions.
Oh damn that's interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I'm curious if your doctor told you why?
@@beachwitch89 it's likely due to differences in the acidity of your stomach.
@@tessahatchett ahh that makes sense. I would assume that if your tap water has chemicals that would affect you too. Thanks for sharing, I'm glad you're starting to feel better!
My mum is 8 months post surgery and plain water still makes her feel sick, which she absolutely hates because pre op she drank atleast 3L a day. Her doc ended up recommending that she use a specific type of flavoured protein powders that don’t create that horrible thick consistency that most protein additives do and she absolutely loves them. I’ve even started using them just to get my protein intake up.
It feels like another part of the rampant consumerism on TikTok with the emphasis on needing so many different flavorings and fancy expensive cups in their pretty set up. It feels like everyone on tiktok has started making free ads for companies and it's apparently even inescapable with even something as simple as water. No hate to the watertok influencers, I just think it's something we need to be conscious of when engaging with content online.
you nailed it, I don't care about the water itself, but there's still something OFF about this, in the way that there's something off about all major social media trends these days. And yea, it's the whole 'you can't just get a mio and an empty gatorade bottle and have ur water, you should to get all these brands and bottles and turn it into a whole water-bar in ur house and ritually engage with e-commerce EVEN MORE!' im glad ppl are having fun but the consumerism just makes everything feel kinda grimy:/
This! The hyper-consumerism is going to get incrementally worse, for sure. I know not everyone can escape it, but I do try to make a conscious effort to not buy into every little thing.
This should be the pinned comment.
Too many Tik Tok trends seem to be about going all in on something right from the get-go. Spending a crapload of money on ALL the things, as soon as something becomes trendy. And Tik Tok trends come and go so quickly, that in 6 months, all those Stanley cups and syrups will be shoved to the back of the cupboard to make room for all the things needed to follow the next trend.
thank you! this!
as someone who wasn't raised in this country, I feel like it's solely an American thing. Stuff like this on tik tok (and outside of it) makes me feel so uncomfortable, where everything is 'White walled", big fake smiles/energy, and consumerism. It's so different compared to my culture, that when I migrated over as a child, I rem being fixated on American drinking glasses. They were so tall and see-through, and they served it with water and ice. It felt inherently overdone, and it felt like the epiphany of every American home. I don't know why I fixated on that specifically.
it feels like everything on tiktok has to be "aesthetic" in a way, from your morning routine, study routine, bedtime routine, the things you eat, play and wear, even your water...like it's more important for things to look good than to actually be fun and enjoyable
i understand things looking good is better for your views and all, but it just feels like everything these kinds of people do is meticulously edited and engineered for the cameras, and it feels dystopian
as someone who has been dehydrated since childhood (its the AuDHD in my case) im VERY pro-hydration in whatever form works for you. its none of my business what ppl put in their water, im just glad they are enjoying themselves while getting hydrated!
The fact they are putting that many pumps into just water and adding an extra pack is literally insane.
😳 Right? I put ONE pump of skinny syrup in my coffee and sometimes that is too sweet so I cut back to half a pump. And I have a ferocious sweet tooth.
Honestly they put so much flavoring and syrups that I can understand why some people would say it is no longer water.
I like flavored water; but why add a packet AND syrup? Pick one!! (Also, I totally agree with the "making a drink"; Kool Aid isn't water; but all it is is water and a flavor packet and sugar stirred in. Soda isn't water and all it is is water carbonated and then syrup added.)
@@michelleevolving I mean, I can do three-four pumps of vanilla in my coffee; but 7 pumps of syrup AND a packet in water is A LOT to me.
@@michelleevolving no frrr I’m not one to shy away from sweet coffee either I love it but them syrups are toooo much litterally crazy they can put 5-10 pumps into water 😩
I've literally had a doctor suggest sugar free flavor packets to add to water if necessary to make it palatable, they're cheaper than buying bottled water, and tap water tastes really nasty in a lot of places. That said, I tend to use 1 packet to like a liter of water so all this added sugary stuff on top of the 'suggested amount' is insane to me, because the 'suggested amount' is too sweet and strong for me.
There is absolutely a place for it. If what you’re adding to the water doesn’t bother your health and you’re able to hydrate and not be miserable then that’s ace! Something in life got less worse that’s all we can hope for on this planet
See that seems like a reasonable ratio to me. These folks are putting so much flavor in their water I think it would be too sweet
My doctor suggested flavor packets because she wanted me to drink more electrolytes, which plain water didn’t have, and some of those packets have electrolytes. I quickly starting craving plain water though and had to find an alternative that gave me electrolytes without affecting the flavor. Cold water just hits different.
This is how I am I’m autistic and if water tastes different than normal or something I can tell and I can’t drink it it makes me gag so adding a little flavor or lemon juice or something (or the electrolyte stuff cause I’m usually dehydrated) helps a lot. But what they add in these videos is excessive like I tend to uses more water than recommended because it’s too sweet or overpowering with the recommended water amount I can’t imagine adding multiple packets along with syrups without feeling nauseous after.
Girl, I did consult a medical professional after watching your video. And he told me the reason my migraines have been getting worse might just be because of my increased consumption of flavored water.
I am not a professional or a scientist but aspartame effs me up if I drink it consistently. I get so constipated. It gives my brother migraines.
@@vintagearisen could be an allergy! I’m allergic to it gives me a near instant migraine and I’m down for the count
Like the first reply mentioned, if it has aspartame, that could be a contributing factor. It's not good for the body, the only reason it's fda approved is because of lobbying and a bribe.
If it’s got artificial dyes in it that can also mess you up. Red 40 gives me hives 🥲
Acesulfame potassium gives my mom terrible migraines! She can drink diet coke but not diet Pepsi.
6:40 why does it seem like shes being held captive and has to act happy? 😭😭
My partner mentioned watertok to me and my first thought was that it was an ED thing. I'm glad that people are drinking more water. I learned years ago that drinking kool aid, soda, even milkshakes are better than drinking nothing. And this is closer to water than koolaid even, so if a little added artificial sugar helps you get hydrated, good for you. But its not a meal substitute. Don't drink birthday cake water if the only reason is bc you don't think its okay to eat birthday cake. Have the cake, and if you want birthday cake water, drink that too.
tbh i think depends on what ED we're talking about. The default assumption when EDs get brought up is that it's always about ones that are too restrictive, in which case yeah I agree. But there are also EDs that involve overconsumption (which I have) and quite frankly as someone who is very much willing to eat an entire cake, I don't see a problem with replacing a birthday cake with birthday cake flavoured water, with the explicit intent of it being a substitute.
And if someone's bothered by you doing that - eat them too!
you can have your cake, AND drink it too! :)
@@amentrison2794 ty for bringing this up. At one point, I could eat straight sugar by the spoon. People like to talk like that's not possible but it very much is.
I had Gastric bypass 13years ago. A strange after effect of the surgery for many patients is that plain water is nauseating and triggers the gag reflex. Personally, it has gotten better over the years but is a real thing.
That’s pretty interesting, is it a known side effect you were warned of or one of those things you discover afterwards? I have ARFID and during bad weeks I can struggle even keeping water down, so I get how miserable it is.
Imagine being an adult who can't handle WATER
like they said it is an effect of gastric bypass surgery. Imagine not reading the actual full comment. @@SuperRat420
@@awesomesauce2000 I can't imagine that's possibly true or else it would be true for all flat liquids.
@@awesomesauce2000 also don't care about electric weighloss surgery
as a brit this trend is especially weird cos these drinks just feel like the most insanely elaborate squashes ever lol (over here, flavoured water is often a more subtle flavour and very little sweetness, whereas squash is basically flavoured sugar syrup topped off with water... squash is often given to kids who don't like drinking plain water and it's much healthier than drinking coke or whatevs...)
i personally am fine with drinking plain water, but i dont begrudge others adding fun flavours to it if they dont like it lol... trust tiktok to create goddamn discourse over water lool
I'm Irish so our food/drinks are 99% the same and I agree! Are dilutable juices not a thing elsewhere? Can you not buy flavoured water easily in shops? I love weird and insignificant cultural differences like this 😅
Literally what I was thinking, being from London I was like is this not just cordial? 🤣🤣 Americans are a weird bunch
i promise you watertok does not reflect our view of flavored water 😭 the american south is a different planet sometimes lmao
“flavored water” to me is just water with a little something added, not a whole-ass other beverage like the middle-aged white southern women are making on tiktok
@@eimeartheirishstitcher i was thinking the same thing! It’s mad to me that they are adding these powders to water like that? And the syrup too? Seems a bit excessive 😭
right as an australian its so strange. we call it cordial over here but its the same thing and pretty common to give to kids
The liquid cake one reminds me of when I was in middle school and was at a friend's birthday sleepover. We had extra cake and had the brilliant idea to blend the rest to see how it would taste to drink it. It tasted just like we were eating the cake normally, but the consistency was so thick that I had a hard time swallowing it without gagging. We basically only took one sip and couldn't bring ourselves to drink any more than that. It was more like a dare than anticipating drinking the rest. Made some funny memories at least!
I mean, adding 40 grams of sugar in the forms of syrups and flavouring to your water kinda takes it away from being "just water". It's also an insanely high amount of sugar to consume in the form of beverages multiple times a day.
Having said that, if you dislike the taste of plain water, flavoured water is a great way to drink more. That flavour can be as simple as a reasonable amount of syrup, lemon/mint/ginger/cucumber slices, or even just a diluted cooled down tea.
Also drinking water isn't the only way to receive hydration! You receive a fair amount from the foods you consume. If you only drink when you feel thirsty, chances are you're not going to become dehydrated.
all of the syrups and packets people are using are sugar free.
@Hayley I've definitely seen people use Starbucks syrups which aren't sugar free to make "water".
Besides, consuming artificial sweeteners in large amounts over an extended period of time have a negative impact on your health, too.
These packets are sugar free- they aren’t from Starbucks. The Starbucks drinks are coffees, these are just water flavorings, and they’re all sugar free by design.
Fruits and vegetables are awesome with water, you can get pitchers and bottles that allow it to steep in the water in its own compartment.
only time i've ever had flavored water was at a funeral. it was not labeled as flavored and there was no regular water anywhere except the bathroom sink. i dont know what the hell they were thinking tbh.
Omggggggg that’s ridiculous hahaha what was the flavor?!
@@annapruitt5546 birthday cake :D
The "grandma's salad" in question is called ambrosia or Watergate salad (also known as green fluff, creamy fruit salad, cool whip fruit salad, or "heavenly hash").
It consists of pistachio-flavored instant pudding, whipped topping, mini marshmallows, pineapple, mandarin oranges, and shredded coconut. That's the base.
Other optional ingredients known to be added are sour cream, greek yogurt, pecans, grapes, bananas, or any canned fruit.
It's definitely not everyone's cup of tea. The texture alone is enough to dissuade you from trying it. I'm not sure if it's a regional "delicacy", but I certainly remember seeing it at all of my childhood family reunions and holidays (I'm from the Northeast). Thankfully, it seems to have weaned its way off the menu in the last couple of years.
🎶 Minnesota salads that arnt really salads🎶
Americans really call anything a salad 😂 (no offense, just think it's funny to call pudding a salad)
My family from the south usually skipped the pudding and marshmallows and would use fresh orange wedges ( peeled of course), jarred cherries, and fresh grated coconut and pineapples And it tastes so much better and had a ton less sugar lol
wow i’ve never heard of that and i’m a southerner. you learn smth new everyday ig
Basically it tastes like cool whip and a can of fruit cocktail
I get if it helps someone drink water because sometimes it’s sooo hard to drink water, it’s hard for some peoples mental health. There’s good water packets people can use that give you vitamins and hydrate you while giving you some flavour, the ones they use in the TikToks are basically not doing anything for you and can obviously harm you.
i would absolutely love to talk to one of them and have them define "water" and how their freshly mixed softdrink can be called water while tea is an entirely different thing
Tea is chemically mixed together with heat, making it a new substance, while flavored water is only mechanically mixed, it’s still two separate substances. I could be wrong tho. It’s been a minute since I took chemistry lol.
@@leanneissoboring776 the heat is mainly for extracting, especially tannins, but tea can be brewed with cold water if you're a masochist who likes weak, cold tea 😅
Yeah like some juice brands are simply just water with concentrate flavors of fruit, so do they call those water now? I’m like confused here but oh well
@@rachecology or, you can let it brew very long, especially in sun, at which point you get cold, strong tea for summerwith
@rachecology Actually if you brew it loke cold brew coffee or as the ice method it's actually stronger than the heated method in flavor and caffeine
All I would add to this, is that maybe instead of making super chemically water they could research ways to make agua fresca or agua de sabor, here in mexico we almost never have plain water, its mostly natually flavored water with fruits or teas and its yummy !
Agua fresca is sooo good!
Yes! And healthier too. I feel like it’s less sugary.
I think the appeal is that these drinks are really quick and easy to make
@@rosesweetcharlotte yeah they are convenient I guess, but idk maybe it’s a cultural thing
I agree! They’re kinda defeating the purpose of water? Water is healthy as is, by adding loads of sugary syrups and powders you’re not even drinking water at that point you’re just drinking juice.
the "grandma's salad" she's talking about is a southern thing, it's called ambrosia. It's a mixture of canned fruit, jello, and marshmellow fluff, everyone's family's got their own rendition of it and it's usually served at potlucks, family reunions, and on thanksgiving. as a southerner with arfid and textural issues, it's literally my worst nightmare in terms of food, so I get why people who aren't from the south aren't into it.
p.s. love the number of times you say the word "wudder" in this video, it's very amusing
omfg my dumb dumb brit brain thought it was only a thing in the sims :') that is a real thing? ok i have to try this even if it will cost a fortune due to the marshmallow fluff.
Thanks for mentioning ARFID. It's literally the first time i've met the word, i googled it and found out, that whole this time i had an eating disorder, because it's not always suppose to come from peoblems with body image! Jeez, i've got diagnosed with ADHD couple of years ago and i'm still discovering new and new ways how it affects me.
It’s actually relatively popular in California, where pistachio pineapple ambrosia is often called Watergate Salad. I love it, especially when it has chopped pecans or other nuts mixed in 😋
@@TrashpandaArt hahaha, i don't think most people in the States outside of the South know it either. My mom is Southern and when we'd visit her family growing up, someone would always bring this as a salad option lol, but one ever knows what I'm talking about in the northwest. I want some now! I hope you try it, it's so gooood!
i love ambrosía salad 😢 a fave and i’m from new england 😂
In Sweden we have this thing called “Saft”, it’s like a syrup that comes in many different flavours (mostly berry flavours such as raspberry for example) that you mix with water. Kids really like it and they often drink it on birthday parties.
I think the FDA would classify it the same way they would kool-aid. Which is flavored mix drink". Is is not water, its a solvent.
You hit the nail on the head when you said it looks like something you’d get at Starbucks. These drinks are closer to juice once you start adding all that to it. They try and justify it by saying “it’s sugar free syrup”, but honestly it’s still not good for you. As someone who doesn’t really enjoy drinking water, I understand the urge to make it fun. I’d been adding lemon to my water, and my dentist recently told me that’s likely what’s been eating away at my enamel and causing all my cavities! It sucks to not really like water, because you know you need to drink it. At the end of the day you can’t beat plain old water, and there’s just no replacing it.
Sugar free is actually worse for you because having fake replacement sweeteners, like dextrose or aspartame, actually make your body crave real sugar more.
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Lol sounds weird but I can’t stand to drink tap water or water out of those metal lined hydro flask cups. I really only like super cold water bottles, and even then there’s certain brands I like more than others lol. I have my water bottle brand that I like and I love to just have that as plain water. Barely drink anything else now and not really missing out tbh
@@michaela1528 dude just start filtering your own water. it's way cheaper than buying new bottles of water every few days and you also get to control the flavour. i use a brita filter and then boil it and it's like heaven
Yep. I was also thinking drinking all your water with literal /citric acid/ in it cannot be good for your teeth, no way.
At first, I thought 'just adding a little flavor packet doesn't mean it's not water anymore, what a silly notion'
But uh....I get it now
right
there is just so much sugar in those add-ins. or sugar substitutes that'll probably just make you crave more sugar and other calorie sources later from how dang sweet they taste.
The pistachio pudding salad isn't just a southern thing, it's just an old lady thing. My grandma use to make it, and she's from Chicago. it was pistachio pudding mix, cool whip, maraschino cherries, marshmallows, and mine also added canned pineapple. I don't know why it's called 'salad' but it was always my favorite along with rootbeer chocolate cake 😅
Pretty sure those types of recipes used to be in magazines and on the packaging of the ingredients as a way for you to go out and buy all the other ingredients (the company usually sold at least one other ingredient mentioned in the recipe).
It made me think 🎶 Minnesota salads that arnt really salads🎶
My grandma used to make it too, and we’re from New Jersey. I believe she called it ambrosia salad? Even though when I look that up it’s a little different, but my grandma always called ambrosia salad the pistachio salad stuff. She made it the exact same way with canned pineapple, cool whip, pistachio pudding mix, maraschino cherries, and marshmallows except she always used those little colorful fruity flavored marshmallows. I hated it as a kid because of all the different textures but tbh I feel like now I would probably like it if I made a vegan version lol
But you’re right that it’s an old people thing, I have only ever seen old people make it lol. I think it’s just one of those weird recipes from the 60s and 70s where everyone was obsessed with jello/gelatin, cool whip, canned goods, and Mayo (not that this has any Mayo but dear god every recipe from that time period was some Mayo gelatin canned fruit disaster and apparently some people DO add Mayo to this recipe 🤢) But at least this one is actually decent, it’s basically just sweet pistachio flavored cool whip with sugary fruit and marshmallows lol
@@guytrashgurtdog I totally feel that. I always had mixed feelings about ambrosia salad. It was the texture of the soggy canned pineapple. And it was always worse with the flavored marshmallows. I wouldn’t touch it
We have ‘aguas frescas’ in Mexico, water with natural fruit and often times to much sugar, that last part can be avoided tho. When I stayed in the hospital they had aguas frescas in the yard and if they were low in sugar or no sugar someone visiting could take it to your bed
I was thinking the same, and to me Aguas frescas are a bit healthier and taste better to me 😂
@@galaxykuromi4703 No unnecessary artificial dyes, natural, no sugar unless you add it. Way healthier for you. White girls on tiktok tried to claim it as “Spa water” 🤣😭
We have those in southwest America too, idk if they're as good as the ones in Mexico but I'd rather drink one than a soda
I love agua de melon!! Chef’s kiss
For the "grandma's salad" at 8:00 minutes it's Watergate salad. It's a southern thing basically a pistachio pudding with a lot of marshmallows sometimes pineapples and cherries are included too.
This was something my mom would bring in for big holiday dinners such as thanksgiving Christmas.
Woah, thanks for the info! I thought she was talking about a kind of ambrosia salad.
That sounds fucking rancid tbh
@@tatertotbobaandpieck From my experiences it's supposed to be a sweet thing to complement savoury tastes. It's basically sweet and mildly fruity but also savoury (due to the pistachio) but the texture throws it off. For me, it's one of those things where separated the ingredients are fine, (except for pistachio pudding), but together, it doesn't work. For me it's not something I would want to eat.
It's similar to most southern dishes, something some people love, some people hate it, some people are in the middle.
*watergate* salad??
At a loss in what way that is a salad, it's not even fruit salad( which also isn't salad imo)