I’m dying 🤣🤣 my fingers were stained red because I made a WaterTok-esque water earlier with a skittles packet but I respect how many of you assumed it was flamin’ hot Cheetos
The sugar is the problem,just my 2 cents.Also saw your last video and was curious if you've ever tried the elimination diet "ketovore or Carnivore" diet.Soo many people have been cured of so many things and it would make a killer video,but I would get Ox bile to help digest in beginning.I watch Dr. Ken Berry and Dr Boz and several others.Anyway,I hope you consider it and I'm on my 4th week and not gonna lie,I did it to fast and had bad stomach issues but I didn't use enzymes to help digest and went completely in.Ketovore is what I'm doing,I couldnt tell a difference until 3rd week and suddenly and I mean suddenly lost 7 lbs..Im gonna keep going,and I can eat all the meat an eggs,bacon I want..Not a bad deal and I used to never get full and I finally do.Ok,afyer that book I just wrote you,much love bye😊
For anyone who wants flavored water, but doesn't want to go the powder and syrup route, try doing fruit and herb infusions! I love strawberry, lemon, basil water in the summer.
Omg omg my dietitian got me on strawberry basil and it's amazing! I personally hate lemon in my water and it had been all I saw for years so I was hesitant to try the fruit infusion. Definitely experiment to find the right one. Love that your fave* is similar to mine 😊 (edit, not sure if your face is similar to mine lol. Silly autocorrect)
It’s crazy to me that flavored water packets are resurfacing or rebranded as if it’s a new thing. I remember getting crystal lite packets in like 2006 😂
God I remember my batshit crazy adoptive mother going completely off the deep end because she found a bottle of crystal light in my backpack. Like damn, I was just thirsty and didn't have many options at the vending machine. I literally got screamed at for hours and grounded because she was convinced I was going to get cancer from this one bottle of crystal light.
Actually funfact, you can add certain things into water to make it more or less hydrating. That is how the concept of things like PegLyte (that stuff for colonoscopies works.) So Peglyte works because it has a high electrolyte concentration but low sugar concentration, so it stays in the GI system longer and allows it to flush out the GI track. Gatorade contains both electrolytes and sugar, which activate the Sodium Glucose transporters and will actually increase absorption, unlike peglyte which has decreased absorption. This has nothing to do with WaterTok, but is pretty interesting nonetheless.
I’ve had an issue for years with over hydration (mainly due to medications being diuretics and/or giving me dry mouth), and that’s not helped by the fact that I have an oral fixation (Straw is hommmeee) and that I’m a vegetarian, so I really screw myself over with it, but I’m looking into Peglyte (Which sounds like a beginner anal plug to me, but they can brand how they choose) RIGHT NOW!! Thank you for the suggestion, I am basically always potassium depleted.
I don't want to be a nerd, but juat wanted to point out that if you put anything in water - it is not water anymore. Food, tea, trees, people, mushrooms - these things also conaist mostly water, but are definitely not water. Water is h2o that is it. I am saying this because if u drank too much, or threw up and are dehydrated - drink water. Not tea, not Gatorade not juice - water. :}
@@VikkaMC no, water is not the best thing in cases of dehydration/ hangover sickness: IV's exist for a reason, you need those transporters to rehydrate properly.
Ok there is some truth behind this whole water flavoring thing…. For me personally, I grew up in a family who didn’t drink water. They drank soda, juice, tea, anything but a bottle of water! Years ago, I used to drink soda ALL the time. I wanted to drink more water but had a hard time, because I didn’t care for plain water. So I started by adding the liquid crystal lite (0 cal, 0 sugar) water flavoring. I slowly used less and less of the flavoring until I didn’t need any at all. It helped me cut the soda and you won’t catch me without a bottle of water now. Now if I want some flavor in my water, I’ll add lemon or cucumber etc.
I also used a “transitioner” to drink regular water! Instead I got into sparkling water because the carbonation would trick my mind into thinking I was drinking soda
@katie4996 I never had water growing up, either. For us, it was milk or juice. It took me a while to get used to water. But now it's basically all I drink. It's weird to think my parents didn't know that water was a waaay better choice. But I guess they were just doing their best.
I'm a boomer and we kids did drink tap water if we were thirsty, from the fountain at school, or even from the hose outside. But my mom never drank water, just coffee and then some booze at night! And we didn't give our cats water for years, just milk! We'd see them lapping water from puddles outside.
@@magdlynstrouble2036 wow, that's crazy about the cats though. They don't need as much water to survive, but they are prone to kidney disease so it's important that they do drink water more often. Also considering most domesticated cats these days are on a kibble diet which has absolutely no liquids in it as opposed to their natural diet of living beings.
With gastric surgery - it's to do with the molecular makeup and surface tension of plain water. Sometimes it hurts to drink water, and adding something (preferably sugar free) helps break that surface tension and the water sits better in your tum
Thank you for explaining that! I’ve been really curious why plain water would make gastric bypass patients sick. I sometimes have trouble drinking enough water because I used to chug it so much when I had an eating disorder and it’ll trigger that nauseous, full feeling, but I assumed there was an actual scientific reason for these people beyond it being in their heads.
Okay, so THANK you for explaining this because though I haven't had any surgery at all, I have found that trying to drink a bunch of water makes my stomach hurt and I had no idea why. (Not every time but I've been trying harder to drink more water and this was a noticeable effect.)
Suggestion for flavoring water without adding artificial dyes or artificial sugar: chop (or smush) random fruits and put them in a jug (or container of your choice) of water. Let sit for at least a couple of hours. Your water will have a subtle flavor of those fruits. You can reuse the chopped fruit for up to four days if you keep the container in the fridge. Play with citrus, strawberries, raspberries, cucumber; add herbs like basil and rosemary. I learned about this years ago, when I worked at a spa.
or if you're like me and will not be able to keep up with that, general depression things, I only buy frozen fruit now because I am a problem. there are some crystalized fruit packets that are just the fruit. I have the true lemon lemon and lime for the time when I want a flavored water.
@@tomuchcamoflauge YES! Love the TrueLemon packets, cuz I never have the fruit on hand - it's gone bad by the time I decide to make my drink. lol You also just made me wonder if freeze-dried fruits would be nice in water (maybe crushed/ground first?) - now I wanna see if we still have that packet of mango crisps...
@@brendaleelydon you can blitz freeze dried fruit into a powder. I've seen people do that with a spice grinder. Usually they use it for color. It would probably take a bit of trial and error as a flavoring
Also: cucumber peels! Folks in my household don't like the texture, so we peel cucumbers. We then put those in ice cube trays and have cucumber-flavored ice cubes.
In my country they're legally not allowed to call the drink a juice unless it has a certain percentage of genuine fruit juice. So technically it is flavored water or just a "soft drink" but not juice 😋
Haha same I don’t understand how some people don’t like water. Not being judgmental at all, just truly don’t understand since all I crave on a hot day is a glass of cold water. Or when I wake up I immediately want water. Idk but water is life.
To be fair, there are places where tap water is bad enough that you can't drink it and all (plastic) bottled water is pretty disgusting, so... I can kinda understand how some people think they "don't like the taste of water", when what they actually don't like is crappy water.
I'm T1 diabetic, so I've used all this stuff in the past to make flavored water, because I have to have sugar free liquid, because it's just really difficult to take insulin to cover sugary drinks, since they hit your bloodstream so fast. What I've learned, is that some things that say they're sugar free, really aren't. Like those skittles packets. There's some other sweetener in it that raises my blood sugar faster than regular sugar. I've found it in a lot of powdered "sugar free" drink mixes. The liquid mixes never seem to do it though. I think it's dextrose, or maltodextrin... I forget, not really sure which is the culprit, but I can see my blood sugar shoot up on my cgm while I'm drinking it. If your pancreas is normal, then your blood sugar will come back down eventually, but I think it's crazy that it says sugar free on the thing and it's like it's not.
a little bit late to the party, but: afaik dextrose is pretty much just glucose, and acts as such (the solutions for infusions are even labeled as "dextrose"), so if it's in the supposedly "sugar-free" products that is just.... scummy and dangerous
@@trashbasket11 Apparently caffeine raises it, too, and it's impossible to figure out how to dose for caffeine as well. So you get two things to worry about in energy drinks. Yay. I had heard this before, but didn't really think much of it until I started drinking unsweetened tea I brew. I thought it would be like water and actually bring my blood sugar down. Nope. Raised it. Not too bad though, since it doesn't have a ton of caffeine. I actually haven't tested black coffee yet. Thank god for correction doses, though. I take so many, sometimes I think about just sticking my pen needle in my stomach and taping it there like a diy insulin pump. Ooh, you probably already know this tip, but if you're trying to get it down quick, I always take my correction dose, then drink a glass of water. It seems to make it kick in and start coming down fast.
@@citruslemonade3326I was just about to comment that dextrose is basically sugar I'm glad someone else said it. To clarify a bit more there are two main types of sugar. Glucose that is straight blood sugar and fructose that has to be produced by your liver. Most sugar is a combination of both. Some people's main problem with sugar is their blood sugar others is their liver. For people with healthy bodies that can process blood sugar it is better for them to use fructose free sweeteners because fructose can cause a lot of problems. I think this is where the line got crossed because people who couldn't eat sugar could if they used things that were broken down immediately into blood sugar. The opposite problem is also true with sweeteners like agave nectar being marketed as so much healthier than sugar because it has a low glycemic index. It basically won't raise your blood sugar because it's almost all fructose which is good for diabetics in moderation but is a huge amount of sugar for your liver to process. Bottom line there are many types of sugars and bodies what is okay for one isnt for another. We should be labeling the sugars for what they are instead of their supposed benefits.
The privilege we have in the west to be arguing about flavoured water when millions of people don’t even have access to clean water is astonishing. You never disappoint, Jaime. 💦 😂
This is giving "eat your food because there's starving kids in africa" vibes. We can and absolutely should still have a conversation about rather or not this is unhealthy.
@@kayeokay7269 No, I don’t mean it that way at all. I hate drinking water myself, and I’ve always been chronically dehydrated to the point where I get headaches. I’ve been trying really hard to increase my water intake, and sometimes I use flavoured water to get enough fluids. I just think it’s weird that people argue about things someone else does with their own body.
I have rheumatoid arthritis and I started putting the Walmart brand flavoring packets in my water and I noticed I was in a lot more pain so I stopped buying them. I love your videos Jamie they brighten my day.
Same! And my body can’t handle sugar substitutes either. I have no issues drinking plain water at all, I drink tons, but when I have juice I want good ol’ traditional sugared juice, which in my case is much safer. And I actually often complain about how difficult it is now to find juice without any of these sugar substitutes!😂
There's s bunch of chemicals in those things. I used to buy MIO but stopped after I learned what Acesulfame Potassium or ACE-K is. It was made on accident in a chemistry lab and is 200xs sweeter than table sugar 😅 artifical sweeters are weird
I think my issue with watertok is that people are actively trying to improve their health, but nothing about it seems healthy. And I feel bad for people who are drinking all of this water and trying to do a good thing, when the aspartame, dyes, and other chemicals (bc none of these additives are without them) are flooding their systems. Being hydrated is super important for your health, but I genuinely worry for people who think this is the same thing and are going to get very different results in their blood work etc.
Yeah exactly! Not to mention, everything has a toxic dose. Like she says in the vid, she got aspartame poisoning. Erythritol makes your blood sludgier if you drink too much of it. A lot of these items have unknowns. I think most people can probably have a couple glasses a day, but if you're doing more than that, it's going to have an effect on you
@naylene hess True, except 'juice' isn't good for you either, especially when bottled, pasteurized, and processed. Commercial juice products sit in vats for weeks at a time, pasteurized which destroys most nutrients, then fortified with lab created vitamins and flavor packets. The majority of fruit juices on the market contain a high level of sugars either meeting or exceeding sodas and other sugary beverages. The best thing to do with juices would be to juice fresh fruits at home. Even then, the sugar content is super high. Fruits are meant to be consumed whole with all the fiber and pulp intact, minimizing insulin spikes and over consumption of sugar molecules.
I think people get upset to call that water because like you said: normal amounts of this artificial stuff is ok but if you use a lot over a long time you get problems. The dangerous thing about it is that people who are not educated enough watch these videos and think: "wow! I can drink so much water if I use this trick" and they end up having health issues and don't know why.
This is how i feel about the situation. I'm all for drinking water and being hydrated, and if adding flavoring to your water helps you drink it, by all means go for it. But adding 20 pumps and 3 packets of flavoring and acting like it's a healthy drink could be dangerous. I have a feeling these flavors are not meant to be drank in excess. I wouldn't be surprised if WaterTokers developed some kind of medical issues later on in life.
Also tbh people already have health issues. Like I don't think this is healthy But the reality of it is is most of these individuals are already eating a lot of additional sugar which tbh is kinda not the biggest issue in life. Yall respond to sugar like ita crystal meth.
Also I think there are studies that say even tho these sweetener have 0 calories they stimulate an insulin response similar to sugar so blood sugar can spike & drop leading to bingeing and more fat cells being built up from what you're already eating. They can also adapt your palette to more sweet tastes meaning veggies and plain foods wont taste as good by comparison. Im a licensed trainer and I really wouldn't recommend this to my clients trying to lose weight for those reasons. You can get used to plain water and "bland" tastes over time, I used to eat nutella and chocolate 3 times a day and when I stopped doing that my entire palette changed to the point where I think most sweets are too sugary and don't taste good anymore
The bloat is SIBO. it’s a bacterial overgrowth that can cause you to bloat like crazy - not just with foods but with water. I’m actually wrapping up being treated for this by my doctor now! Not because of water tk but because I thought I needed everything in my pantry and fridge to be sugar free. I’m also a recovering disordered eater and work with a therapist and nutritionist. Because of all of this, I feel it’s ok for me to say: this is a scary trend. Not because we can’t Agree if it’s water or juice but because when you have a big platform and you’re training people how to feel full by essentially eating water, that’s a classic ED symptom. So yes, the arguments can be a little much, but the principal- that these people have a huge platform to spread very unhealthy habits and beliefs - is dangerous. Slap some disclaimers on there and let’s move on.
Hopefully this won't trigger you, because I don't mean to do that, but have you looked into keto-based supplements? They use natural sweeteners, not the lab stuff the video showcases. My mother was lifelong overweight, and after switching to heavy keto with the natural sweeteners, she dropped 130 pounds in less than half a year. She didn't even have to do anything, and she's been healthier now than ever. That's with a lot of organs being missing (botched attempt at a stomach stapling, the predecessor to the bands they do now, nearly killed her after the surgeon cut through and had to pull a bunch of her stuff + half a lung). Whenever you recover, you should look into those. I personally don't like the aftertastes, but if you're still really afraid of sugar, and need to avoid the artificial sweeteners, you should try the keto natural sweeteners instead.
As an aging millennial whose technological literacy plateaued in 2012, I'm so thankful for your TH-cam videos explaining what the heck is ticking and tocking 😘
This is hilarious. Reminds me of getting like kool-aid as a kid because your family couldn’t always be buying fruit juice and Coke and whatnot. But now people will mix it in a $50 Stanley cup and get all bougie 😆😆
When I was about 13-14, my mother started cutting me off from pretty much every other drink and to encourage me to drink more water she bought crystal light. I wasn't overweight by any means, but I wasn't as skinny as her so she was trying to make me diet. Because we grew up being taught that drinking anything but water is a moral failing. I had like one packet a day, and then I ended up with digestive issues for a while and constantly having bile come up. I was miserable. My doctor had us cut out all artificial water flavorings, and after a week I was doing much better. I cannot imagine consuming as much as some of the watertok people. Remembering moderation is important. They are certainly more hydrated and I'm proud of the changes people have made! I just don't want to see them experience negative effects like I did. We often harm ourselves in the pursuit of being "more healthy".
My wife had severe headaches for years. She would have episodes where her legs would go numb and give out. We went to several doctors and spent thousands and thousands of dollars on tests. A neurologist put her on medication for seizures. One day she woke up sick and vomiting. She couldn't keep down her meds, or anything, for days. The headaches and everything stopped. Afterwards through some trial and error and working with the doctors she found out it was the aspartame she was consuming. Now no more headaches, seizures, any of it. The worst part was when they found out what it was the doctor was like "yeah, aspartame is horrible and can cause all sorts of health issues." Yet not a single doctor ever mentioned it.
Yeah aspartame is completely man made and the body doesn’t know how to process it, it’s rumored in the scientific community to possibly be carcinogenic…..
@@1WEareBUFO1 for some people it doesnt matter how much of it youre consuming, just a little can do it. and aspartame is in a lot of "sugar free" products like zero sugar sodas
No one will listen to me when I shout this to the skies! Since I was little, anything "Diet" would give me a horrific headache, even a stick of gum. As I got older, I would recognize the taste of aspartame or any sweetener immediately and spit it out. My body has always told me there is something really wrong with sweeteners. Just have the real thing that our bodies know how to process, real sugar! Im so sorry for your wife, and so sad it took so long for anyone to figure that out. Thank God she is ok❤
I always found the packets too sweet in the small amount of water they recommended to mix. I also have an autoimmune disease that requires me to drink *more* water than most people should. After finding watertok, I realized I could mix and match the flavor packets, only using tiny amounts in larger cups, etc. Sometimes it’s nice to change it up, especially when you have to drink so much water. It was one of those moments like 🤦🏼♀️ why didn’t I think of that sooner? Another nice add in if you don’t want to do fresh fruit is a product called “true lime” (there’s also lemon, orange and grapefruit). It’s dehydrated citrus juices, put into small sweetener like packets. It’s just the fruit juice that’s been crystallized, so no added sugars or artificial sweeteners. They add a lot of flavor without anything else. ❤
@@emilymulcahy Also, flavouring plain yogurt with Mio's...my fave is the orange and add a little vanilla extract for creamsicle yogurt. Drink flavours are versatile!
I've never heard of water tock. My doctor way back in the 90s told me if you add anything to water it's not water because your liver has to filter it so it's not doing the job you need pure water to do. But who knows
There are those cold infusion bags which contain no sweetener of any kind and rely on natural flavours. I don't think the liver has to do too much with those, and they can add a bit of variety in cases where you need to drink a lot of water. Even that, though, I think of as flavoured water.
@@gendelschild7704 Well, here in the US, cordials are a type of liqueur-which is an alcoholic beverage. So, for us, these fruity waters are definitely juice lol.
I feel like it should be called elixir tok. Then, they can claim special powers from the different combinations of flavors they have made. Pink stardust, watermelon, black jelly bean flavor makes me hear colors!
Being English and not on Tiktok, I hadn't heard about this. This is hilarious to me, having drunk Robinsons fruit squash my whole 43 year life, as most English people do. It is never called water! 😂 As always, I love your commentary, Jaime xxx
Exactly! I commented the same on a different video about this. This concept is bizarre. It’s all just fluid intake but I would never say ‘I’m making a water’ if I was making a squash 😂
See? You folks gave it a name! I think that is where this has gone wrong. In North America it's always been "fruit flavoured drink mix" (at least in Canada, you can't label it as "juice" because juice must be extracted from fruits and vegetables) We need a proper word like you do in the UK
same here from Germany, we have like electrolyte things and the ice tea made from granulates but I think that's it in the dry department? and if you add any sirup/squash base to it, of course it's not water anymore?? anyway the whole concept is too 'murican for me :D
I knew we were gonna have different vibes about this when you said you immediately liked the Tonya woman and thought she seemed so fun and energetic after all I could think was "oh my god she would be so grating to be around" lol. But I'm not on TikTok, I'm not leaving mean messages to her, so she and I can just continue to go about our separate ways.
In Sweden we call it saft! :D Not water, not juice, but simply saft. Kind if a lighter water-syrup mix you buy a bottle of and mix Again with water 1/7 usually. A million different fruit/berry flavours, with sugar or with artificial sweetner. It's considered a childrens drink and a treat, like you get at kids birthday-parties or weekends. Grownups usually don't drink it that much, but from time to time. It's very entertaining watching US discuss this on tiktok like it's a new thing? We've had it forever.
Children are born craving sweets because breast milk is quite sweet and the sugar in milk is needed by their bodies. We are supposed to outgrow craving sweets so much as we get older, just as many people outgrow the ability to digest lactose.
Yes! Fellow Nordic, I also find it hilarious how over the top, they are about saftevand 😂 but also it makes my stomach turn, they amount of sugar they put into their water! 😬🙈 i love saftevand (elderflower, with a squeeze of fresh lime 😍), but as you said 1/7 only!
So what British people call squash/dilute? Honestly I'm low key obsessed, even though where I am in Yorkshire our tap water is quite tasty compared to south/London, which is Devils juice!
Ok the birthday cake flavour is making so much sense now. A few weeks ago I saw a Twitter thread about weird Starbucks orders and someone mentioned a person who came in and ordered a few pumps of pumpkin spice syrup in a cup of water. I thought that was the craziest order and why would anyone want that. The person was clearly a water girly.
Seeing all these people just put random powders and syrups in a drink gave me massive flashbacks to Starbucks "secret menu" drinks. That was years ago and can only imagine how much worse it is now...
@@kiwisoup that was the wooorst, luckily I was not a barista during this boom but I had several coworkers who had been during this era and it was hell, one big influencer would figure out customization was always an option at Starbucks, make up a name for their unique drink, and then people would order it not understanding how to order a customization, expecting these poor souls to just know what they were talking about. An absolute disaster.
I use the vanilla skinny syrup in my lattes. One full pump makes a sweet vanilla latte, I can’t even imagine how crazy sweet some of these concoctions must be!! I do think there is valid concern over ingesting too much artificial sweetener and colouring , but the internet loves to get way too aggressively invested in other people’s bodies. Let them drink their drinks, there’s a lot of other content out there if this isn’t your thing!
You've made me question my beliefs while as always, making me laugh. I don't think it's water, but I agree that it's not my place to police what others do with their bodies either. Thank you for keeping it real and being the warm, humorous person you are!
The whole discussion on whether it is water or juice can be settled by adopting the Danish middle ground called "saftevand" - literally juice water. It is water that has had any kind of flavouring added to it, with or without sugar. It is almost exclusively consumed by children.
In Guatemala we call that "Fresco" (fresh), which is a flavored beverage. In Mexico they are called "Aguas Fresca" which mean fresh water. It is made from fruit (like lemonade, would be consider fresco), grains like horchata, plants like Rosa Jamaica which is Hybiscous, I think. Also they can be artifitial flavor like Cool Aid, and of course sugar, honey or whatever you use to sweet your food. Fresco is between water and sodas. It's not as healthy as water, it would be ok if it's made of fruit or natural ingredients and not so much sugar; but definetely healthier than soda. It's delicious, it's nice on summer days, but it won't make you loose weight unless you drink something more sugary. Now WaterTok seems alright without the claims that it's healthy. Syrups are not healthy, but they are super yummy and I guess it feels like a cool cocktail. Wanna be healthy? Make sure at least drink some plain water with your fancy flavored water.
I was thinking about this too! I grew up knowing flavored water as aguas frescas and it's usually what people drink on hot days to get more hydrated. An horchata or a lemonade after a day out in the sun or a field is definitely more appetizing than plain water. There is some science behind a bit of sugar and salt in water too like with "sueros" or the electrolyte drinks.
In the UK, we have an isle in the supermarket for "squash". Its mostly synthetic flavour, a little fruit juice, a little sugar, and a little sweetener. You add like 10% squash with 90% water and it tastes like bottled flavoured water, but less sweet. Honestly, I love squash and drink it every day. Its so common in the uk that I'm always surprised that it doesn't really exist other places. Its cool to hear that something close exists in other places!
I'm Australian... We have this too and we call it cordial... It's usually fruit flavoured but also comes in cola flavour and such... It's really popular and refreshing and when I was a kid especially, a lot of parents were using it to get more water into their fussy children...
Just because it says zero calories or sugar free doesn’t mean your organs aren’t working hard to digest it. Some sweeteners are harder on your kidneys then sugar. Drink it if you want to but it’s not water.
I don’t care what they are drinking but I’m getting big MLM vibes from them. They have the same products, in the same stand, with the same cups, and say the same thing. I haven’t heard the standard “hi babes, do you want to work from home AND own your own company” but it feels like it’s heading that way as MLMs jump on trends
@@melodydimonde7345 those aren't MLMs, though, and the coupon codes they give out to these influencers aren't any different than the ones keeping this channel up & running.
My brief foray into water flavor additives ended when I realized the additives cause mold growth in my water bottles unless promptly washed. Got tired of scrubbing mold (and wondering if there was any invisible mold left) and threw out the additives. I think the ones I was using were making me thirstier anyway.
In the UK we have squash/cordial/diluting juice and it’s specifically made for this. But we don’t call it water, we call it squash or cordial or juice 😂 But I love seeing people just being so cute about making water something that they can cope with drinking. Hydration is so important ❤️
You can't call something without a very large percentage of fruit juice in it "juice" in the US, legally anyway. Does that stop people, no. Most juices sold in the stores are "juice cocktail" or "juice drinks" be cause of this. The US uses a lot of powdered products here compared to the UK. Like our jello/jelly is powdered, not in a block like y'all have. And other than Mios in small squeezies, we don't have liquid squash or barley water bottle concentrates to dilute. It's funny how people here see the flavored syrups and think that's something new 🙄😂
The problem I perceived was that when doctors say drink more water, they mean water, not clear Kool aide, or Kool aide in general. Yes, in Mexico, they have fruit waters, but it is diluted juice.
What’s funny to me about this is I’ve had this exact same debate within myself for years. I know straight water is better for me, but if I am trying to cut out my soda addiction and adding flavor packets to my water cuts the cravings and gets the water down…it’s a win for me.
I'm all for watertok! I am kind of concerned about what they call it, because I used to have an ED and I know that mislabeling foods to make them sound "better" is a big thing. There's nothing wrong with drinking cool aid or diet soda or lemonade or whatever -- so there's no reason you need to pretend like you're NOT drinking those things! I don't think the big creators are necessarily doing anything problematic but I do see how it could turn into something harmful.
@@hotsexyangel I think people get way too invested in others' health, and something that is very typical of EDs is the idea that foods are definitely healthy or unhealthy, and that eating "unhealthy" foods is morally bad. People don't need to be "for" watertok; they should follow if they like the drinks and unfollow if they do not. I just think that they should not be calling it water when it is not. Choosing something other than water isn't/bad/ but the individuals drinking it should be aware that it /could/ harm them.
Im 38. I lived through the crystal lite era. I STILL DRINK IT CUZ IT HELPS ME DRINK MORE WATER. These watertoks helped me find more sugar-free options for coffee, baking, etc. It's been really life changing for me. I LOVE THEM!
@Cole_Cross when I was younger didn't seem so hard to drink plain water 🤷 weird... however I know that water is so important to not only weight maintenance but skin health, digestion etc! I don't care if I use a little assistance in meeting the daily goals ☺️ plus if I can drink something that tastes like sweet tea but isn't.... hell sign me up...
When I was a kid we'd dare each other to just drink/eat the crystal lite by itself. It's not as tasty by itself... It was easier to eat the powder than it was to drink the liquid... God kids are stupid...
I can relate to the bad experience with aspartame. When my mom started keeping diet drinks around a lot I would drink them because they were there. Eventually I noticed I had start getting headaches often and eventually it was full blown migraines not long after. Once I stopped so did the headaches and it left me always being worried when I see people consuming a lot of the stuff.
I get awful migraines from it and it doesn't take much. If I drink something without realizing it is in it I'll have a headache materialize seemingly out of nowhere. Sucralose apparently breaks down our DNA, so I'll be sticking with sugar(glucose) in moderation. Currently on a caffeine detox as well
Headaches from aspartame hit me right away. I. stopped drinking, or ingesting anything with any type of fake sugar. I'd rather just limit real sugar, and not suffer the side effects if the fake stuff.
It was a huge deal when I was finally able to pinpoint aspartame as my migraine trigger. I had to kick my Diet Coke and Crystal Light habits, but now that I carefully read labels and am sure to avoid it, I'm down to maybe two or three in a year. I really loved my Crystal Light, too, and it was a real bummer to give it up.
I think people definitely have to factor in the ingredients used in these powders and syrups. Our bodies know how to process sugar, they don’t necessarily know how to process artificial sweeteners. I get headaches when I consume too many things that have artificial sweeteners in them. So they affect everybody differently.
I remember being a teen in the late 90s/early 00s when individual water flavorings designed expressly for diet and drinking more "water" (packets, syrups, etc) started exploding everywhere. (Of course, things like Tang and Kool-Aid were around long before that) Once again, TikTokers act like they've discovered gravity just because they've (individually) heard of something for the first time...
that and it used to be really exspensive so now that they are cheap more people see them as a good alternative but yea they act like they just discovered it and its kinda dumb looking lol
Honestly, the biggest thing Tik Tok has taught me is that all trends are cyclical. Even when you think we've learned better. Also, fun fact, Tang was given to astronauts which led to its popularity.
There's a youtube mom who puts ready whip on her coffee and people started doing it and saying she "invented" it. Lmaoo the internet is such a dumb place
I think it depends… sugar free things can be really unhealthy, even if they’re “zero calorie”. Each to their own but it’s basically just artificially sweetener and chemicals
Not to mention most of the syrup things are banned in so many countries outside of the US, because of how bad they are for you. That’s got to stand for something, right?
I’m 100% anti artificial sweeteners! I react so horribly to aspartame and other alternative sweeteners, I have some insulin resistance from PCOS and I think the non-sugar sweeteners make it act up. I would much rather have a drink with slight flavor and a bit of sugar-love putting a bit of juice in my big water just to get some flavor variety. Nothing sugar free or fat free (which often has higher sodium content) enters our home, we just use moderation to stay healthy.
And I 100% agree! Better to go the sugar route than artificial sweetener route. And for goodness sake, eat the egg yolk, peanut butter oil, and whole milk. 😅 There’s a reason God put naturally occurring fat in things, and without the fat, the body doesn’t even get the full benefit from the protein present.
Aspartame has a gross aftertaste on top of it being somewhat unhealthy, so what’s the appeal? My husband drinks diet but I’m real sugar all the way. Everything in moderation.
This reminds of that trend where they mixed alcohol and water in a gallon water. So many doctors have said “a whole gallon of water is fine, but ounces of alcohol is still alcohol”, you’re still consuming that alcohol and still doing the damage. This same principle applies to the watertoks, 7 pumps of sugar is still 7 pumps of sugar, regardless of how much water you add.
This calorie free stuff is what I loved when I was dealing with a eating disorder. I hope they're enjoying this, but ED people, watch out and maybe avoid water TikTok.
The syrup bottles remind me of the smoothie pump flavors the pretzel treat place, I used to work at, as a teen, had. I vote not water. I was initially on board with people drinking more water even if it’s flavored, but then I saw the syrup and what the drinks look like they’re making. I think people are right to say they’ve gone too far and that isn’t water anymore. I still support people drinking more water. Just try not to go too far with it like these people seem to have done.
I was in a research study at our medical campus (Anschutz - in Denver Metro area) a few years ago. The study was on weight loss when comparing a water-only group vs no/low-calorie flavored water group... and the second group lost more weight (the exercise we were required to do was getting 7k steps/day). There have been other institutes that have found the same (or similar) results. (Note, this isn't bc the water flavors provided and additional benefit, but they suspect it was due to a higher level of satisfaction and perceived satiety). I love plain water, so I don't struggle with getting hydration, but at the end of the day... any water is good water. You wanna make some fancy elixir out of it? Go for it! Life is hard, and if things like this make folks happy (and get them hydrated...), I say go for it. :)
A lot of flavored syrups and sugar free products contain sucralose (splenda) which has been scientifically proven to alter insulin/glucose levels, trigger increased appetite especially in women. The ones that contain high fructose corn syrup which is a by-product of corn which is a GMO causes a similar reaction.
I can't lie... I had gastric bypass in October and I've used a crystal light packet in my 32oz water every single time I make my bottle ... Because I gotta hit my water goals and drinking plain water is rough post op.... I don't have TikTok downloaded so it's hysterical to me that I've been on trend without even realizing it 😂
There’s little else I hate more than the aftertaste of artificial sweeteners, but per usual I love your take on the drama around this trend, friend! It shouldn’t be this deep! 🙌🏻 ❤
I can’t remember which person said this but they talked about how watertok could contribute to EDs and how there was creators using this as a meal replacement, which I think is important to consider, especially when they are ‘marketing’ this as weight loss.
And there's definitely a problem with people being like "oh it's water, it's healthy!" when they're dumping sugar packets into it. Just drink goddamn water or use Crystal Lite like a normal person.
A lot of them also use sugar free flavorings too which make you crap your brains out. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that is a wanted side effect for them
Yup. As someone that's struggled with disordered eating, I recognize the habit of drinking so many low calorie drinks that you don't have much room for anything else. Alarms immediately went off once I saw these videos.
Thank you Jaimie for bringing another hilarious "thing" from Tiktok for us who don't use the platform! Being from the UK, again, I am astounded by what y'all do over there! The problem I'm seeing with this trend is that you can be overhydrated and be drinking too much water. Plus the insanely ridiculous amounts of sugar/sweetener that would be in those packets and syrups. Makes sense why some of those watertokers are so hyper 🤣
@@s.a.6082 Yeah but they'd be full of artificial sweeteners instead which is far worse. It would be healthier to put a spoonful of actual sugar in water lol.
@@dpalmerama it wouldn't though, drinking sugary drinks is awful for your teeth. artifical sweeteners are way better for your teeth and you need less of it. there are some sweeteners that are controversial but saying sugar is healthier? absolutely not.
The reason why some people are upset about these tiktokers referring to their sugary drinks as "water" is because words have meaning and if we use words in ways they were not meant to be used, then it opens the door for all types of confusion . Imagine if you asked for a glass of water and instead someone brought you tea or kool-aid? You be a bit upset chz that's not what you asked for. Having people completely mislabel what they are drinking can be bad because there's a possibility that these concoctions of sugar and syrup have different affects on the body than just pure water. If you refer to juice or tea as flavored water, you're spreading misinformation that you can add a bunch of chemicals to water and have it still be water and that's factually untrue.
I’d say it’s flavoured water at the very least. But hey, if it’s that what it takes for those people to get proper hydration then good on them! Though I would definitely worry about that much sugar substitute intake. (sucrose, aspartame etc) As we do know those have their own health risks… I myself prefer good old plain water, nothing better or more quenching that good ol’ h20!
Interesting, I thought it would be called “flavored” water. 🤔🤷♀️ The watertok controversy tells me people didn’t listen in English class and forgot about adjectives. 😂 Thank you Jaime for informing me of this trend I had not known until your video 💧
I love some cold brew as long as it’s Jaime covering it! I think it would be so fun to watch her cover much older stories because she always gives me the feeling of nostalgia.
I feel like the downside would be that they’re ingesting way too many dyes and chemicals with their water…but also it’s not my body so I really don’t give a hoot 🦉. I always enjoy your commentary on everything! ❤
I guess I want to play devil's advocate here because over the past decade or so there has been a huge rise in artificial sweeteners and flavorings that are added into our food and drinks. I saw this documentary where teenagers were crying because they were so addicted to sugar and artifical sugar. They are overweight, pre-diabetic, and not getting enough exercise. TikTok is so influential to young brains, and I'm afraid that this trend is just going to promote everyone drinking a lot more sugar-water, which isn't healthy. Yeah, you're drinking more water but you're also drinking a crap ton more sugar. Artificial sugar or "sugar-free" options can be bad for your health too (even large quantities of Monk Fruit or Stevia shouldn't be consumed in a day). They can actually dehydate you more. High sugary drinks can transfer water out of your cells and increase urination over time. I think of it like a salad. Yes, a salad can be very healthy for you. But after you've added a bunch of ranch dressing, bacon bits, and croutons, the "salad" is now more unhealthy than nutritious. If you ate that type of salad three times a day, then you'd gain a bunch of weight and have high cholesterol. You can tell everyone, "But HEY - I was eating salad the whole time," but you're just kidding yourself. We're already addicted to sugar in America and this isn't helping. Why not do this with healthy soups or something? At least you'd be getting more hydration and some sort of nutrition with the broth. You would be better off just making yourself drink two glasses of water in the morning and giving yourself a sugary treat every so often. It seems impossible for Americans to establish any healthy habits without first thinking, “how can I make this taste better?” We’ve not only commercialized how you should drink water, but also what container you carry your water in. It’s WATER! It’s not a Gucci purse. 😩 What’s next? “Air Tok” where we spray air fresheners everywhere we go so we remember to breathe more?
There is no evidence to suggest that large quantities of monk fruit or stevia can dehydrate you more. Where did you hear that? Monk fruit and stevia are both considered safe non-nutritive sweeteners and are often used as sugar substitutes.
I'm concerned about the sheer volume of water they are drinking too. Unless you are running a marathon in a desert you are just going to wash your electrolytes from your body, which can cause heart and cognitive issues. One of my friends ended up in a coma because she took advice about hydration to an extreme (she has recovered)
Okay I just found you like literally yesterday and am just going back to watch more and I didn’t know you were a bird lover!! Your grey is absolutely beautiful ❤
This trend is wild. Essentially, Americans have discovered squash. Here in the UK, we have squash. Endless flavours, and is a staple item in pretty much EVERY household. Essentially it’s very, very concentrated juice and you just mix with water. It’s so common here, I’ve always been surprised that squash isn’t a thing in the USA.
We've had the same in America for a long time, simply called 'juice from concentrate' or similar. But it sort of fell out of vogue and other things took its place, like flavored drops you squirt into water, or the powders shown here.
We do have this in America though. My mom's been using it to flavor her water since the early 2000s and you can find the flavor packets in most grocery stores. Idk why people are making a big deal out of it all of a sudden.
I use flavored drinks for my water since last year to help me stay away from sugar. They're sweetened by stevia and not only do they taste delicious, they made me drink more water than I would normally do (I have a tendency to completely forget to drink water).
We love the ones with stevia, too. Aspartame crosses the blood-brain barrier and, at best, gives headaches, and, at worst, has been linked to brain cancer.(I guess the median issue is aspartame poisoning! Yikes!) But, seriously, I've never had gastric surgery yet water still sometimes hurts my stomach. The stevia flavorings help a lot!
You mentioned people's taste preferences, which is a fascinating topic I've looked into. This is something that's actually been studied; it's called taste perception. It's complex and influenced by factors like taste buds, smell, texture, and personal experiences. Non-tasters have a muted sense of taste for certain flavors, like a low volume button for bitterness in dark chocolate. Supertasters, on the other hand, have taste buds with the volume turned up high, making strong or spicy tastes overpowering. Most people fall in between these extremes. All that to say, we really, really don't know what something actually tastes like to someone else unless we ask them and even then...
Isn't it fascinating? And the food companies have researched even further to establish what they call the "bliss point" for various foods. That's the levels of salt, fat and sugar needed for optimal enjoyment. They have big focus groups of various tasters to try to pinpoint the right combo.
I wonder if your senses can be blunted for certain tastes and super sensitive for others. I find dark chocolate and black coffee SO bitter, but I need to add so much vinegar, lemon, lime, etc. to really feel like I’m tasting it.
As a person who hates drinking water, I find it more palatable if I add some lemon juice or even just fruit juice. Not only do I hate drinking water, but I do struggle to keep it down sometimes without feeling nauseous.
Same, and it wasn't until I started liking sparkling water that I stopped struggling! It took me years to realise that it's a sensory aversion for me, still water tastes like nothing and makes me feel all sloshy and that makes me very uncomfortable.
@@Snooznoo same for me, the sensory part. It wasn't until just last November I finally had a doctor that really listened and looked into it. By my next appointment he was ready. He even had a nice detailed beverage journal with premade logs for me. I came in a week later, we went through the journal and he made some more recommendations. By the next month I was good to go. I'm 34 (Ill be 35 on the 27th) so this was a struggle for years and I had so many doctors treat me like Im a lazy potato. Im 5'4, 38-34-40, 165lbs but as soon as Id tell them water makes me sick they would start their typical annoyance. All I could stomach the last 10 years has been Mt Dew Code Red. One of the worse drinks. I'd drink 4-6 cans a day, nothing else. Now Im drinking these ICE carb. waters, I don't love them, barely like them but I can stomach them at least.
@@vixxxenfoxxx3660 this is me exactly. I hate the taste of most water and I get so nauseous when I drink it. I literally live off dr pep with sips of water in between and have tried everything to make water taste better or not make me sick and nothing yet😢
I was going to comment about how the cheaper “packets” with artificial sweeteners caused me much gastrointestinal distress. I learned the hard way in college….😂
They have places that basically make these flavored waters and teas, and I tried one once and it was soooo sweet and soooo artificial tasting that I couldn’t finish it. I get the pushback that it’s not water because you’re adding so much crap to it that it’s kinda not water, regardless of if it hydrates you or not. Gatorade is full of dyes and artificial flavors and sweeteners, but it hydrates you, so is it water? I’m with Jaime in the sense that who cares what these woman drink, but calling it water feeling kinda disingenuous or deluded somehow. When I pour a package of Liquid IV into my water bottle during my softball games, I’m basically drinking a Gatorade to hydrate myself, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but I’m also not deluded enough to say I’m drinking water lol. To each their own though.
@@StellaWaldvogel well that could be a coke also. It’s still water but has crap in it. And nobody calls that water! Same with these “Watertok” things. It’s simply not water
I’m dying 🤣🤣 my fingers were stained red because I made a WaterTok-esque water earlier with a skittles packet but I respect how many of you assumed it was flamin’ hot Cheetos
The sugar is the problem,just my 2 cents.Also saw your last video and was curious if you've ever tried the elimination diet "ketovore or Carnivore" diet.Soo many people have been cured of so many things and it would make a killer video,but I would get Ox bile to help digest in beginning.I watch Dr. Ken Berry and Dr Boz and several others.Anyway,I hope you consider it and I'm on my 4th week and not gonna lie,I did it to fast and had bad stomach issues but I didn't use enzymes to help digest and went completely in.Ketovore is what I'm doing,I couldnt tell a difference until 3rd week and suddenly and I mean suddenly lost 7 lbs..Im gonna keep going,and I can eat all the meat an eggs,bacon I want..Not a bad deal and I used to never get full and I finally do.Ok,afyer that book I just wrote you,much love bye😊
Kind of off topic but I would literally die for your Orchid Stanley 😭🥹💜 love you Jaime and your videos! Always watch you when I need a pick me up ❤️
I had to comment and say OMG thank you for the Shifty-shfive clip! That was the household go to song back in the day lol
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A series called "we needa tok" where Jaime talks about tiktok trends, would be fantastic 💖
This.
Um yes!!
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Not your bird coming in to mock you pumping, open boxes and poop on the counter. Legend.
For anyone who wants flavored water, but doesn't want to go the powder and syrup route, try doing fruit and herb infusions! I love strawberry, lemon, basil water in the summer.
I like cucumber and lemon in water
I do infused honey sometimes too. Just a small amount makes the water taste like tea
That's more work than making a tik tok though 🤔
Omg omg my dietitian got me on strawberry basil and it's amazing! I personally hate lemon in my water and it had been all I saw for years so I was hesitant to try the fruit infusion. Definitely experiment to find the right one. Love that your fave* is similar to mine 😊 (edit, not sure if your face is similar to mine lol. Silly autocorrect)
Strawberry and cucumber is my favourite
IDK why but "back to you, me" has me rolling on the floor🤣🤣
Literally; same! 😂
Agreed!!!
It’s crazy to me that flavored water packets are resurfacing or rebranded as if it’s a new thing. I remember getting crystal lite packets in like 2006 😂
We had them back in the 80's/90's, too.
God I remember my batshit crazy adoptive mother going completely off the deep end because she found a bottle of crystal light in my backpack.
Like damn, I was just thirsty and didn't have many options at the vending machine.
I literally got screamed at for hours and grounded because she was convinced I was going to get cancer from this one bottle of crystal light.
Haha, YES, my mom got us some of the lemonade packets and we loved them, lol😂
They'll never taste natural to me. 😂😂
Still gross honestly
Actually funfact, you can add certain things into water to make it more or less hydrating. That is how the concept of things like PegLyte (that stuff for colonoscopies works.) So Peglyte works because it has a high electrolyte concentration but low sugar concentration, so it stays in the GI system longer and allows it to flush out the GI track. Gatorade contains both electrolytes and sugar, which activate the Sodium Glucose transporters and will actually increase absorption, unlike peglyte which has decreased absorption. This has nothing to do with WaterTok, but is pretty interesting nonetheless.
Yeah, I noticed when I'm really overheated and lightheaded only plain water helps. Not soda, beer, sweet tea, etc.
I’ve had an issue for years with over hydration (mainly due to medications being diuretics and/or giving me dry mouth), and that’s not helped by the fact that I have an oral fixation (Straw is hommmeee) and that I’m a vegetarian, so I really screw myself over with it, but I’m looking into Peglyte (Which sounds like a beginner anal plug to me, but they can brand how they choose) RIGHT NOW!! Thank you for the suggestion, I am basically always potassium depleted.
I don't want to be a nerd, but juat wanted to point out that if you put anything in water - it is not water anymore. Food, tea, trees, people, mushrooms - these things also conaist mostly water, but are definitely not water. Water is h2o that is it. I am saying this because if u drank too much, or threw up and are dehydrated - drink water. Not tea, not Gatorade not juice - water. :}
@@VikkaMC no, water is not the best thing in cases of dehydration/ hangover sickness: IV's exist for a reason, you need those transporters to rehydrate properly.
I didn't even see this! But, yes, this is what I came to say, too!😊
Ok there is some truth behind this whole water flavoring thing…. For me personally, I grew up in a family who didn’t drink water. They drank soda, juice, tea, anything but a bottle of water!
Years ago, I used to drink soda ALL the time. I wanted to drink more water but had a hard time, because I didn’t care for plain water. So I started by adding the liquid crystal lite (0 cal, 0 sugar) water flavoring. I slowly used less and less of the flavoring until I didn’t need any at all. It helped me cut the soda and you won’t catch me without a bottle of water now. Now if I want some flavor in my water, I’ll add lemon or cucumber etc.
I also used a “transitioner” to drink regular water! Instead I got into sparkling water because the carbonation would trick my mind into thinking I was drinking soda
@@notsuspicioususer4080 oh yeah I did sparkling water too!
@katie4996 I never had water growing up, either. For us, it was milk or juice. It took me a while to get used to water. But now it's basically all I drink. It's weird to think my parents didn't know that water was a waaay better choice. But I guess they were just doing their best.
I'm a boomer and we kids did drink tap water if we were thirsty, from the fountain at school, or even from the hose outside. But my mom never drank water, just coffee and then some booze at night! And we didn't give our cats water for years, just milk! We'd see them lapping water from puddles outside.
@@magdlynstrouble2036 wow, that's crazy about the cats though. They don't need as much water to survive, but they are prone to kidney disease so it's important that they do drink water more often. Also considering most domesticated cats these days are on a kibble diet which has absolutely no liquids in it as opposed to their natural diet of living beings.
With gastric surgery - it's to do with the molecular makeup and surface tension of plain water. Sometimes it hurts to drink water, and adding something (preferably sugar free) helps break that surface tension and the water sits better in your tum
Thank you for explaining that! I’ve been really curious why plain water would make gastric bypass patients sick. I sometimes have trouble drinking enough water because I used to chug it so much when I had an eating disorder and it’ll trigger that nauseous, full feeling, but I assumed there was an actual scientific reason for these people beyond it being in their heads.
I was like that for the first year or two post op. I can drink plain water now 🎉
I’ve never had gastric surgery but I sometimes struggle with my stomach HURTING after drinking water. Is it the same reasoning in that instance?
Okay, so THANK you for explaining this because though I haven't had any surgery at all, I have found that trying to drink a bunch of water makes my stomach hurt and I had no idea why. (Not every time but I've been trying harder to drink more water and this was a noticeable effect.)
@@Brattybat yeah, could be! It's not exclusive to gastric surgery patients. 😊
Suggestion for flavoring water without adding artificial dyes or artificial sugar: chop (or smush) random fruits and put them in a jug (or container of your choice) of water. Let sit for at least a couple of hours. Your water will have a subtle flavor of those fruits. You can reuse the chopped fruit for up to four days if you keep the container in the fridge. Play with citrus, strawberries, raspberries, cucumber; add herbs like basil and rosemary. I learned about this years ago, when I worked at a spa.
or if you're like me and will not be able to keep up with that, general depression things, I only buy frozen fruit now because I am a problem. there are some crystalized fruit packets that are just the fruit. I have the true lemon lemon and lime for the time when I want a flavored water.
@@tomuchcamoflauge YES! Love the TrueLemon packets, cuz I never have the fruit on hand - it's gone bad by the time I decide to make my drink. lol You also just made me wonder if freeze-dried fruits would be nice in water (maybe crushed/ground first?) - now I wanna see if we still have that packet of mango crisps...
@@brendaleelydon you can blitz freeze dried fruit into a powder. I've seen people do that with a spice grinder. Usually they use it for color. It would probably take a bit of trial and error as a flavoring
@@brendaleelydon true lemon and monk fruit or stevia make really good lemonade
Also: cucumber peels! Folks in my household don't like the texture, so we peel cucumbers. We then put those in ice cube trays and have cucumber-flavored ice cubes.
In my country they're legally not allowed to call the drink a juice unless it has a certain percentage of genuine fruit juice. So technically it is flavored water or just a "soft drink" but not juice 😋
Australia ay
soft drinks have to have carbonation this is just gross koolaid lol
Its like squash
@@animeloveer97 Sugar-free kool-aid. With all the pumps of sugar-free "syrup" that are put into it, aspartame poisoining is almost a given.
That's what I was thinking! If you call this juice and hand it over to me, I'll be disappointed.
My best friend once said “I don’t trust anyone who ‘doesn’t like the taste of water’…” and I think about that every time I see one of these videos. 😂
I am untrustworthy then lol
Haha same I don’t understand how some people don’t like water. Not being judgmental at all, just truly don’t understand since all I crave on a hot day is a glass of cold water. Or when I wake up I immediately want water. Idk but water is life.
@@sleepytime677 me too! So much so that I asked my doctor if I might have diabetes, but alas no, just obsessed with water. Lol
To be fair, there are places where tap water is bad enough that you can't drink it and all (plastic) bottled water is pretty disgusting, so... I can kinda understand how some people think they "don't like the taste of water", when what they actually don't like is crappy water.
@@Narangarath very true! We’re looking squarely at YOU, Dasani. 😂😂
Jaime always gives the best commentary on the weirdest subjects
The okayest
Right???
I love that I hear about the new weird thing from her first haha
She could talk about anything and I'm here for it!
First time watcher here and she’s hilarious. I don’t keep up on trends anymore but now I will with Jaime’s commentary.
I'm T1 diabetic, so I've used all this stuff in the past to make flavored water, because I have to have sugar free liquid, because it's just really difficult to take insulin to cover sugary drinks, since they hit your bloodstream so fast. What I've learned, is that some things that say they're sugar free, really aren't. Like those skittles packets. There's some other sweetener in it that raises my blood sugar faster than regular sugar. I've found it in a lot of powdered "sugar free" drink mixes. The liquid mixes never seem to do it though. I think it's dextrose, or maltodextrin... I forget, not really sure which is the culprit, but I can see my blood sugar shoot up on my cgm while I'm drinking it. If your pancreas is normal, then your blood sugar will come back down eventually, but I think it's crazy that it says sugar free on the thing and it's like it's not.
a little bit late to the party, but:
afaik dextrose is pretty much just glucose, and acts as such (the solutions for infusions are even labeled as "dextrose"), so if it's in the supposedly "sugar-free" products that is just.... scummy and dangerous
That's why I have to correct for some energy drinks and it's so annoying because like you said it hits my system so fast my insulin can't catch up
@@trashbasket11 Apparently caffeine raises it, too, and it's impossible to figure out how to dose for caffeine as well. So you get two things to worry about in energy drinks. Yay. I had heard this before, but didn't really think much of it until I started drinking unsweetened tea I brew. I thought it would be like water and actually bring my blood sugar down. Nope. Raised it. Not too bad though, since it doesn't have a ton of caffeine. I actually haven't tested black coffee yet. Thank god for correction doses, though. I take so many, sometimes I think about just sticking my pen needle in my stomach and taping it there like a diy insulin pump.
Ooh, you probably already know this tip, but if you're trying to get it down quick, I always take my correction dose, then drink a glass of water. It seems to make it kick in and start coming down fast.
Maltodextrin definitely impacts insulin and should be avoided.
@@citruslemonade3326I was just about to comment that dextrose is basically sugar I'm glad someone else said it. To clarify a bit more there are two main types of sugar. Glucose that is straight blood sugar and fructose that has to be produced by your liver. Most sugar is a combination of both. Some people's main problem with sugar is their blood sugar others is their liver. For people with healthy bodies that can process blood sugar it is better for them to use fructose free sweeteners because fructose can cause a lot of problems. I think this is where the line got crossed because people who couldn't eat sugar could if they used things that were broken down immediately into blood sugar. The opposite problem is also true with sweeteners like agave nectar being marketed as so much healthier than sugar because it has a low glycemic index. It basically won't raise your blood sugar because it's almost all fructose which is good for diabetics in moderation but is a huge amount of sugar for your liver to process.
Bottom line there are many types of sugars and bodies what is okay for one isnt for another. We should be labeling the sugars for what they are instead of their supposed benefits.
When i was growing up, if you wanted to add flavor to your water, you drank it from the hose.
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Hose water was THE summer drink of my childhood 😂
The privilege we have in the west to be arguing about flavoured water when millions of people don’t even have access to clean water is astonishing. You never disappoint, Jaime. 💦 😂
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This is giving "eat your food because there's starving kids in africa" vibes. We can and absolutely should still have a conversation about rather or not this is unhealthy.
I don't get why it's funny.
I thought of the Kardashian episode where Kim loses her diamond earring in the ocean and Kourtney says, PEOPLE ARE DYING, KIM.”
@@kayeokay7269 No, I don’t mean it that way at all. I hate drinking water myself, and I’ve always been chronically dehydrated to the point where I get headaches. I’ve been trying really hard to increase my water intake, and sometimes I use flavoured water to get enough fluids. I just think it’s weird that people argue about things someone else does with their own body.
I have rheumatoid arthritis and I started putting the Walmart brand flavoring packets in my water and I noticed I was in a lot more pain so I stopped buying them. I love your videos Jamie they brighten my day.
Yeah, the more processed something is (food or drink) the higher the chance it causes inflammation so that makes sense that your RA worsened. 😔
Same! And my body can’t handle sugar substitutes either. I have no issues drinking plain water at all, I drink tons, but when I have juice I want good ol’ traditional sugared juice, which in my case is much safer. And I actually often complain about how difficult it is now to find juice without any of these sugar substitutes!😂
There's s bunch of chemicals in those things. I used to buy MIO but stopped after I learned what Acesulfame Potassium or ACE-K is. It was made on accident in a chemistry lab and is 200xs sweeter than table sugar 😅 artifical sweeters are weird
@@sidology1.0 Strongly agree!
Yep, artificial sweetener = nearly instant migraine for me. I avoid them completely, and my life is objectively better for it.
That Watertok lady's frenetic energy with Jaime's super chill, laid back, hilarious energy would be great in a skit together.
I think my issue with watertok is that people are actively trying to improve their health, but nothing about it seems healthy. And I feel bad for people who are drinking all of this water and trying to do a good thing, when the aspartame, dyes, and other chemicals (bc none of these additives are without them) are flooding their systems. Being hydrated is super important for your health, but I genuinely worry for people who think this is the same thing and are going to get very different results in their blood work etc.
Yeah exactly! Not to mention, everything has a toxic dose. Like she says in the vid, she got aspartame poisoning.
Erythritol makes your blood sludgier if you drink too much of it.
A lot of these items have unknowns. I think most people can probably have a couple glasses a day, but if you're doing more than that, it's going to have an effect on you
Yeah, not to mention migraines from the artificial sweetener (aspartame) 😩
they are trying to improve health withought actually giving up what makes them unhealthy.. like jus drink water or actual juice
@naylene hess True, except 'juice' isn't good for you either, especially when bottled, pasteurized, and processed. Commercial juice products sit in vats for weeks at a time, pasteurized which destroys most nutrients, then fortified with lab created vitamins and flavor packets. The majority of fruit juices on the market contain a high level of sugars either meeting or exceeding sodas and other sugary beverages. The best thing to do with juices would be to juice fresh fruits at home. Even then, the sugar content is super high. Fruits are meant to be consumed whole with all the fiber and pulp intact, minimizing insulin spikes and over consumption of sugar molecules.
Yeah doing this multiple times a day would be terrible. Especially with the syrup.
It’s so weird to me how this is a trend because flavor packets have been a thing forever 😂
RIGHT LOL
I'm questioning how bored people are to make water and flavor packets a trend when they've been around.
@@CherryBlossom28479 same ppl buying 40 dollar cups lol
@@jborrego2406 True, they buy both from what I've seen lol
Kool Aid...the original water flavoring packet
I think people get upset to call that water because like you said: normal amounts of this artificial stuff is ok but if you use a lot over a long time you get problems. The dangerous thing about it is that people who are not educated enough watch these videos and think: "wow! I can drink so much water if I use this trick" and they end up having health issues and don't know why.
Exactly, also there's a lot of kids and teens on TikTok who probably won't realize how much sugar is in certain powders and syrups.
This is how i feel about the situation. I'm all for drinking water and being hydrated, and if adding flavoring to your water helps you drink it, by all means go for it. But adding 20 pumps and 3 packets of flavoring and acting like it's a healthy drink could be dangerous. I have a feeling these flavors are not meant to be drank in excess. I wouldn't be surprised if WaterTokers developed some kind of medical issues later on in life.
Right but people call Kool aid juice language isn't always used literally sometimes words refer to things in context.
Also tbh people already have health issues. Like I don't think this is healthy But the reality of it is is most of these individuals are already eating a lot of additional sugar which tbh is kinda not the biggest issue in life. Yall respond to sugar like ita crystal meth.
Can't manage other people, if someone if gonna consume something with no research whatsoever, they'd probably end up unhealthy anyway 🤷🏼
Also I think there are studies that say even tho these sweetener have 0 calories they stimulate an insulin response similar to sugar so blood sugar can spike & drop leading to bingeing and more fat cells being built up from what you're already eating. They can also adapt your palette to more sweet tastes meaning veggies and plain foods wont taste as good by comparison. Im a licensed trainer and I really wouldn't recommend this to my clients trying to lose weight for those reasons. You can get used to plain water and "bland" tastes over time, I used to eat nutella and chocolate 3 times a day and when I stopped doing that my entire palette changed to the point where I think most sweets are too sugary and don't taste good anymore
The bloat is SIBO. it’s a bacterial overgrowth that can cause you to bloat like crazy - not just with foods but with water. I’m actually wrapping up being treated for this by my doctor now! Not because of water tk but because I thought I needed everything in my pantry and fridge to be sugar free. I’m also a recovering disordered eater and work with a therapist and nutritionist. Because of all of this, I feel it’s ok for me to say: this is a scary trend. Not because we can’t Agree if it’s water or juice but because when you have a big platform and you’re training people how to feel full by essentially eating water, that’s a classic ED symptom. So yes, the arguments can be a little much, but the principal- that these people have a huge platform to spread very unhealthy habits and beliefs - is dangerous. Slap some disclaimers on there and let’s move on.
Hopefully this won't trigger you, because I don't mean to do that, but have you looked into keto-based supplements? They use natural sweeteners, not the lab stuff the video showcases. My mother was lifelong overweight, and after switching to heavy keto with the natural sweeteners, she dropped 130 pounds in less than half a year. She didn't even have to do anything, and she's been healthier now than ever. That's with a lot of organs being missing (botched attempt at a stomach stapling, the predecessor to the bands they do now, nearly killed her after the surgeon cut through and had to pull a bunch of her stuff + half a lung).
Whenever you recover, you should look into those. I personally don't like the aftertastes, but if you're still really afraid of sugar, and need to avoid the artificial sweeteners, you should try the keto natural sweeteners instead.
Thank you for this comment! I was surprised Jaime didn't mention the ED side of the argument, considering her history with dieting.
@@nachgeben actually some keto sweeteners are beginning to have concerns as well.
If only it could be as simple as your last sentence lmfao Murica's brain rot is just insane
Thank you! Yes! It’s ED in nature, not adjacent.
As an aging millennial whose technological literacy plateaued in 2012, I'm so thankful for your TH-cam videos explaining what the heck is ticking and tocking 😘
Thank u for describing what I called “not paying attention to anymore” since 2014. U put so perfectly 😸.
Thank goodness I’m not the only one.
At this point, I have become fine with being an aging millennial.
👏👏👏 underappreciated comment here ❤️❤️❤️
I felt this :’(
I'm an Xer. And ... Same girl same.
This is hilarious. Reminds me of getting like kool-aid as a kid because your family couldn’t always be buying fruit juice and Coke and whatnot. But now people will mix it in a $50 Stanley cup and get all bougie 😆😆
Did your family mix it super weak to make the powder last? Not THAT was pretty much water.
@@pcbassoon3892 Yeah that would have passed for WaterTok for sure
I don’t get the hype with the Stanley cups lol
@@Jessica.g89
Pack mentality I guess: I never get hooked on such concepts..... I don,t see the appeal to this one either.
😂 my thoughts exactly!
When I was about 13-14, my mother started cutting me off from pretty much every other drink and to encourage me to drink more water she bought crystal light. I wasn't overweight by any means, but I wasn't as skinny as her so she was trying to make me diet. Because we grew up being taught that drinking anything but water is a moral failing. I had like one packet a day, and then I ended up with digestive issues for a while and constantly having bile come up. I was miserable. My doctor had us cut out all artificial water flavorings, and after a week I was doing much better. I cannot imagine consuming as much as some of the watertok people. Remembering moderation is important.
They are certainly more hydrated and I'm proud of the changes people have made! I just don't want to see them experience negative effects like I did. We often harm ourselves in the pursuit of being "more healthy".
My wife had severe headaches for years. She would have episodes where her legs would go numb and give out. We went to several doctors and spent thousands and thousands of dollars on tests. A neurologist put her on medication for seizures. One day she woke up sick and vomiting. She couldn't keep down her meds, or anything, for days. The headaches and everything stopped. Afterwards through some trial and error and working with the doctors she found out it was the aspartame she was consuming. Now no more headaches, seizures, any of it. The worst part was when they found out what it was the doctor was like "yeah, aspartame is horrible and can cause all sorts of health issues." Yet not a single doctor ever mentioned it.
Yeah aspartame is completely man made and the body doesn’t know how to process it, it’s rumored in the scientific community to possibly be carcinogenic…..
I have GI issues already, but Aspartame makes me violently sick (so does Sucralose and Stevia). Aspartame is terrible for you.
How much unicorn flavored water was she drinking?
@@1WEareBUFO1 for some people it doesnt matter how much of it youre consuming, just a little can do it. and aspartame is in a lot of "sugar free" products like zero sugar sodas
No one will listen to me when I shout this to the skies! Since I was little, anything "Diet" would give me a horrific headache, even a stick of gum. As I got older, I would recognize the taste of aspartame or any sweetener immediately and spit it out. My body has always told me there is something really wrong with sweeteners. Just have the real thing that our bodies know how to process, real sugar! Im so sorry for your wife, and so sad it took so long for anyone to figure that out. Thank God she is ok❤
I always found the packets too sweet in the small amount of water they recommended to mix. I also have an autoimmune disease that requires me to drink *more* water than most people should. After finding watertok, I realized I could mix and match the flavor packets, only using tiny amounts in larger cups, etc. Sometimes it’s nice to change it up, especially when you have to drink so much water. It was one of those moments like 🤦🏼♀️ why didn’t I think of that sooner? Another nice add in if you don’t want to do fresh fruit is a product called “true lime” (there’s also lemon, orange and grapefruit). It’s dehydrated citrus juices, put into small sweetener like packets. It’s just the fruit juice that’s been crystallized, so no added sugars or artificial sweeteners. They add a lot of flavor without anything else. ❤
Yeah I have found some packets only require 1/4 a packet, some a half, I'll just stick to mio or sugar free liquid Kool aid lol
I like to put cucumber and cilantro and lime in my water. Its like the freshness of salsa but hydrating.
@@emilymulcahy Also, flavouring plain yogurt with Mio's...my fave is the orange and add a little vanilla extract for creamsicle yogurt. Drink flavours are versatile!
@@clarissathompson lol Idk about that, I just use fresh fruit and Splenda when needed or make ranch with my yogurt
@@emilymulcahy mmmmmm, raaaaanch! I don’t eat fruit except for berries so I appreciate getting some fruit flavour into yogurt however I can
I've never heard of water tock. My doctor way back in the 90s told me if you add anything to water it's not water because your liver has to filter it so it's not doing the job you need pure water to do. But who knows
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There are those cold infusion bags which contain no sweetener of any kind and rely on natural flavours. I don't think the liver has to do too much with those, and they can add a bit of variety in cases where you need to drink a lot of water. Even that, though, I think of as flavoured water.
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 me too. There's water, then there water with flavor added lol. Just call it flavored water tok lmao
Makes sense to me. I once had a nurse professor say that any kind of liquid is fine. It didn't make any sense to me
As an Australian, I am a little jealous y'all have access to so many different flavours of diet cordial 🌼
I think they don't know it's cordial?? Arguing about if it's water or juice... Like nah, it's cordial.
@@gendelschild7704 Well, here in the US, cordials are a type of liqueur-which is an alcoholic beverage. So, for us, these fruity waters are definitely juice lol.
Yes, the U.S. has TONS of flavors if you like insulin resistance and carcinogenic compounds
It doesn’t matter what anyone calls it it’s hydrating it’s calorie free and it’s caffeine free
But it causes insulin resistance just like sugar does, and bloating, and migraines
Unlike plain water.
I feel like it should be called elixir tok. Then, they can claim special powers from the different combinations of flavors they have made. Pink stardust, watermelon, black jelly bean flavor makes me hear colors!
Love when you and Nick appear together. The friendship in your marriage is something a lot of us aspire to have! ❤
I love how Jaime is always so polite about these things and tries not to judge people
And yet she’s openly involved with an extremely bigoted and intolerant high control religious group
She tries not to negatively judge people. We all judge people constantly; it’s unavoidable.
Yeah that’s true. Really that’s what I meant to say
LOL, I love you. The part where you're trying the Birthday Cake one, was so chaotic with the cute birbo that I friggin died.
Being English and not on Tiktok, I hadn't heard about this. This is hilarious to me, having drunk Robinsons fruit squash my whole 43 year life, as most English people do. It is never called water! 😂 As always, I love your commentary, Jaime xxx
Exactly! I commented the same on a different video about this. This concept is bizarre. It’s all just fluid intake but I would never say ‘I’m making a water’ if I was making a squash 😂
See? You folks gave it a name! I think that is where this has gone wrong. In North America it's always been "fruit flavoured drink mix" (at least in Canada, you can't label it as "juice" because juice must be extracted from fruits and vegetables) We need a proper word like you do in the UK
same here from Germany, we have like electrolyte things and the ice tea made from granulates but I think that's it in the dry department? and if you add any sirup/squash base to it, of course it's not water anymore?? anyway the whole concept is too 'murican for me :D
Im obsessed with Jaime's vine and meme references. With every "step up Kyle", I feel seen and appreciated.
I knew we were gonna have different vibes about this when you said you immediately liked the Tonya woman and thought she seemed so fun and energetic after all I could think was "oh my god she would be so grating to be around" lol. But I'm not on TikTok, I'm not leaving mean messages to her, so she and I can just continue to go about our separate ways.
Yup, same. Wore me out just to watch her even just a couple of minutes
She gives me MLM vibes.
She seems like she throws fun parties. People are such bummers
She doesn't seem like she really acts like that in life , though. That's just her oddly contrived water persona.
@@kimbooley90 That's a shitty thing to say about a person.
In Sweden we call it saft! :D Not water, not juice, but simply saft. Kind if a lighter water-syrup mix you buy a bottle of and mix Again with water 1/7 usually. A million different fruit/berry flavours, with sugar or with artificial sweetner. It's considered a childrens drink and a treat, like you get at kids birthday-parties or weekends. Grownups usually don't drink it that much, but from time to time. It's very entertaining watching US discuss this on tiktok like it's a new thing? We've had it forever.
Yes ,I don't understand you have this kind stuff in Hungary all over Balkan we liked as children.
Children are born craving sweets because breast milk is quite sweet and the sugar in milk is needed by their bodies. We are supposed to outgrow craving sweets so much as we get older, just as many people outgrow the ability to digest lactose.
Same in the Netherlands. We call it limonade
Yes! Fellow Nordic, I also find it hilarious how over the top, they are about saftevand 😂 but also it makes my stomach turn, they amount of sugar they put into their water! 😬🙈 i love saftevand (elderflower, with a squeeze of fresh lime 😍), but as you said 1/7 only!
So what British people call squash/dilute? Honestly I'm low key obsessed, even though where I am in Yorkshire our tap water is quite tasty compared to south/London, which is Devils juice!
Ok the birthday cake flavour is making so much sense now. A few weeks ago I saw a Twitter thread about weird Starbucks orders and someone mentioned a person who came in and ordered a few pumps of pumpkin spice syrup in a cup of water. I thought that was the craziest order and why would anyone want that. The person was clearly a water girly.
What do they charge her for that 😂
Seeing all these people just put random powders and syrups in a drink gave me massive flashbacks to Starbucks "secret menu" drinks. That was years ago and can only imagine how much worse it is now...
@@kiwisoup that was the wooorst, luckily I was not a barista during this boom but I had several coworkers who had been during this era and it was hell, one big influencer would figure out customization was always an option at Starbucks, make up a name for their unique drink, and then people would order it not understanding how to order a customization, expecting these poor souls to just know what they were talking about. An absolute disaster.
@@vtetrooo1312 probably like $4
@@vtetrooo1312 5 bucks
I use the vanilla skinny syrup in my lattes. One full pump makes a sweet vanilla latte, I can’t even imagine how crazy sweet some of these concoctions must be!! I do think there is valid concern over ingesting too much artificial sweetener and colouring , but the internet loves to get way too aggressively invested in other people’s bodies. Let them drink their drinks, there’s a lot of other content out there if this isn’t your thing!
You've made me question my beliefs while as always, making me laugh. I don't think it's water, but I agree that it's not my place to police what others do with their bodies either. Thank you for keeping it real and being the warm, humorous person you are!
Maybe you can pretend it's clear juice if it makes you feel better lol
I was just about to comment essentially the same thing!
The whole discussion on whether it is water or juice can be settled by adopting the Danish middle ground called "saftevand" - literally juice water. It is water that has had any kind of flavouring added to it, with or without sugar. It is almost exclusively consumed by children.
I was about to say the same. Saftevand or “nektar” is the perfect middle ground here.
and if you put carbonated water, we can loan out the German word "schorle"! (as in Apfelschorle, Weinschorle etc)
In Guatemala we call that "Fresco" (fresh), which is a flavored beverage. In Mexico they are called "Aguas Fresca" which mean fresh water. It is made from fruit (like lemonade, would be consider fresco), grains like horchata, plants like Rosa Jamaica which is Hybiscous, I think. Also they can be artifitial flavor like Cool Aid, and of course sugar, honey or whatever you use to sweet your food.
Fresco is between water and sodas. It's not as healthy as water, it would be ok if it's made of fruit or natural ingredients and not so much sugar; but definetely healthier than soda.
It's delicious, it's nice on summer days, but it won't make you loose weight unless you drink something more sugary.
Now WaterTok seems alright without the claims that it's healthy. Syrups are not healthy, but they are super yummy and I guess it feels like a cool cocktail. Wanna be healthy? Make sure at least drink some plain water with your fancy flavored water.
I was thinking about this too! I grew up knowing flavored water as aguas frescas and it's usually what people drink on hot days to get more hydrated. An horchata or a lemonade after a day out in the sun or a field is definitely more appetizing than plain water. There is some science behind a bit of sugar and salt in water too like with "sueros" or the electrolyte drinks.
In the UK, we have an isle in the supermarket for "squash". Its mostly synthetic flavour, a little fruit juice, a little sugar, and a little sweetener. You add like 10% squash with 90% water and it tastes like bottled flavoured water, but less sweet.
Honestly, I love squash and drink it every day. Its so common in the uk that I'm always surprised that it doesn't really exist other places. Its cool to hear that something close exists in other places!
I'm Australian... We have this too and we call it cordial... It's usually fruit flavoured but also comes in cola flavour and such... It's really popular and refreshing and when I was a kid especially, a lot of parents were using it to get more water into their fussy children...
Just because it says zero calories or sugar free doesn’t mean your organs aren’t working hard to digest it. Some sweeteners are harder on your kidneys then sugar. Drink it if you want to but it’s not water.
Spikes your insulin.
I don’t care what they are drinking but I’m getting big MLM vibes from them. They have the same products, in the same stand, with the same cups, and say the same thing. I haven’t heard the standard “hi babes, do you want to work from home AND own your own company” but it feels like it’s heading that way as MLMs jump on trends
I mean there are mlms with flavor packets
@@Kayla_P99 ah that would make sense as I saw a few and they looked and sounded like MLMs but I didn’t click the links
MLM....oh THAT MLM nevermind lol
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES.
@@melodydimonde7345 those aren't MLMs, though, and the coupon codes they give out to these influencers aren't any different than the ones keeping this channel up & running.
My brief foray into water flavor additives ended when I realized the additives cause mold growth in my water bottles unless promptly washed. Got tired of scrubbing mold (and wondering if there was any invisible mold left) and threw out the additives. I think the ones I was using were making me thirstier anyway.
In the UK we have squash/cordial/diluting juice and it’s specifically made for this. But we don’t call it water, we call it squash or cordial or juice 😂 But I love seeing people just being so cute about making water something that they can cope with drinking. Hydration is so important ❤️
You can't call something without a very large percentage of fruit juice in it "juice" in the US, legally anyway. Does that stop people, no. Most juices sold in the stores are "juice cocktail" or "juice drinks" be cause of this.
The US uses a lot of powdered products here compared to the UK. Like our jello/jelly is powdered, not in a block like y'all have. And other than Mios in small squeezies, we don't have liquid squash or barley water bottle concentrates to dilute. It's funny how people here see the flavored syrups and think that's something new 🙄😂
The problem I perceived was that when doctors say drink more water, they mean water, not clear Kool aide, or Kool aide in general. Yes, in Mexico, they have fruit waters, but it is diluted juice.
What’s funny to me about this is I’ve had this exact same debate within myself for years. I know straight water is better for me, but if I am trying to cut out my soda addiction and adding flavor packets to my water cuts the cravings and gets the water down…it’s a win for me.
Try adding them to plain carbonated water 🥰
Finally, a youtuber who talks calmly and not yelling at us! 😂
Keep it up girlie, I love your vibe and videos! 😊❤️
Watertok = Flavoured water
Fizzy drinks/soda = Fizzy water
Coffee = Hot bean water
Tea = Hot leaf water
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Kombucha = Yeasty water
Well... you're not wrong😂
Vodka- Rye water
Gin- Juniper berry water
Bone broth: corpse water
@@kassiopiajudkins2722it's more an ethyl-analogue of water than actual water. That's the part people are going after, anyway.
I'm all for watertok! I am kind of concerned about what they call it, because I used to have an ED and I know that mislabeling foods to make them sound "better" is a big thing. There's nothing wrong with drinking cool aid or diet soda or lemonade or whatever -- so there's no reason you need to pretend like you're NOT drinking those things! I don't think the big creators are necessarily doing anything problematic but I do see how it could turn into something harmful.
idk how anyone could be for watertok.. they're trying to convince ppl its just healthy water when its clearly not.
@@hotsexyangel I think people get way too invested in others' health, and something that is very typical of EDs is the idea that foods are definitely healthy or unhealthy, and that eating "unhealthy" foods is morally bad. People don't need to be "for" watertok; they should follow if they like the drinks and unfollow if they do not. I just think that they should not be calling it water when it is not. Choosing something other than water isn't/bad/ but the individuals drinking it should be aware that it /could/ harm them.
The artificial sweeteners have proven to be bad though. People think it's OK and go overboard but it actually has a negative effect 😢
I'm so old! This is ridiculous! Who cares? I've been drinking water for 65 years ! I cannot believe this is a thing!😅😅😅
@@izzymom2745 but in some situations it's the lesser of two evils. I think other people's health just isn't my business to comment on, either way
I’m cracking up that we’re calling them “Water Girlies”. It makes me think of mermaids. Everyone needs water. 😂
Im 38. I lived through the crystal lite era.
I STILL DRINK IT CUZ IT HELPS ME DRINK MORE WATER.
These watertoks helped me find more sugar-free options for coffee, baking, etc.
It's been really life changing for me.
I LOVE THEM!
45 here ..... still drink crystal lite... graduated to mio.... it DOES help get the water down lol
@@Hooperjz78 HECK YES!!! I use like half a packet for 16oz in 50oz bottles but it does the trick!
@Cole_Cross when I was younger didn't seem so hard to drink plain water 🤷 weird... however I know that water is so important to not only weight maintenance but skin health, digestion etc! I don't care if I use a little assistance in meeting the daily goals ☺️ plus if I can drink something that tastes like sweet tea but isn't.... hell sign me up...
@@Hooperjz78 oh girl dont even get me started on the sweet tea... I hear you on that!
When I was a kid we'd dare each other to just drink/eat the crystal lite by itself. It's not as tasty by itself... It was easier to eat the powder than it was to drink the liquid... God kids are stupid...
I can relate to the bad experience with aspartame. When my mom started keeping diet drinks around a lot I would drink them because they were there. Eventually I noticed I had start getting headaches often and eventually it was full blown migraines not long after. Once I stopped so did the headaches and it left me always being worried when I see people consuming a lot of the stuff.
I can believe it. We have a friend who drinks diet drinks all the time and he's developed a weird head tick that he can't control.
I get awful migraines from it and it doesn't take much. If I drink something without realizing it is in it I'll have a headache materialize seemingly out of nowhere. Sucralose apparently breaks down our DNA, so I'll be sticking with sugar(glucose) in moderation. Currently on a caffeine detox as well
Headaches from aspartame hit me right away.
I. stopped drinking, or ingesting anything with any type of fake sugar.
I'd rather just limit real sugar, and not suffer the side effects if the fake stuff.
Yeah, I can't handle aspartame either. Makes me really sick. Nausea, vertigo, gi upset. I don't get how people can chug that crap.
It was a huge deal when I was finally able to pinpoint aspartame as my migraine trigger. I had to kick my Diet Coke and Crystal Light habits, but now that I carefully read labels and am sure to avoid it, I'm down to maybe two or three in a year. I really loved my Crystal Light, too, and it was a real bummer to give it up.
As an Australian I would consider syrup in water to be cordial 🤷🏻♀️ but they can call it water if it makes them feel better I guess 😂
Same! Like cordial I’ve been drinking since the 80’s 😂
Thank you fellow Australian!
I was humming the Cottee's jingle the whole time.
Hearing it called juice was odd to me. I’d heard squash before from watching British comedy and panel shows but juice is odd to me.
Cordial or squash seems like the most accurate term to me
Except cordial doesn't exist in America apparently. This is all this is, Americans discovering cordial. Funniest shit I've seen in a while
I think people definitely have to factor in the ingredients used in these powders and syrups. Our bodies know how to process sugar, they don’t necessarily know how to process artificial sweeteners. I get headaches when I consume too many things that have artificial sweeteners in them. So they affect everybody differently.
2:48 Causes people to wonder where to draw the line between water and juice 😂😂😂😂
I remember being a teen in the late 90s/early 00s when individual water flavorings designed expressly for diet and drinking more "water" (packets, syrups, etc) started exploding everywhere. (Of course, things like Tang and Kool-Aid were around long before that)
Once again, TikTokers act like they've discovered gravity just because they've (individually) heard of something for the first time...
that and it used to be really exspensive so now that they are cheap more people see them as a good alternative but yea they act like they just discovered it and its kinda dumb looking lol
Honestly, the biggest thing Tik Tok has taught me is that all trends are cyclical. Even when you think we've learned better.
Also, fun fact, Tang was given to astronauts which led to its popularity.
Crystal light ran rampant
@@OfJournalandJourneyrystal light was what i was thinking! Like this isn’t new 😂
There's a youtube mom who puts ready whip on her coffee and people started doing it and saying she "invented" it. Lmaoo the internet is such a dumb place
I think it depends… sugar free things can be really unhealthy, even if they’re “zero calorie”. Each to their own but it’s basically just artificially sweetener and chemicals
Every single thing is a chemical. Including air.
@@BiscuitsMom917 you know what they meant come on
@@BiscuitsMom917 then survive on air
Yes the post sweetner bloat is disturbing
Not to mention most of the syrup things are banned in so many countries outside of the US, because of how bad they are for you. That’s got to stand for something, right?
I’m 100% anti artificial sweeteners! I react so horribly to aspartame and other alternative sweeteners, I have some insulin resistance from PCOS and I think the non-sugar sweeteners make it act up. I would much rather have a drink with slight flavor and a bit of sugar-love putting a bit of juice in my big water just to get some flavor variety. Nothing sugar free or fat free (which often has higher sodium content) enters our home, we just use moderation to stay healthy.
And I 100% agree! Better to go the sugar route than artificial sweetener route. And for goodness sake, eat the egg yolk, peanut butter oil, and whole milk. 😅 There’s a reason God put naturally occurring fat in things, and without the fat, the body doesn’t even get the full benefit from the protein present.
Oh man I totally understand about the aspartame I get all weird feeling and my body feels weird I think I’m allergic
@@candicehuggins yes! have the sugar, have the fats. your body needs it all
Aspartame has a gross aftertaste on top of it being somewhat unhealthy, so what’s the appeal? My husband drinks diet but I’m real sugar all the way. Everything in moderation.
Aspartame triggers horrible migraine headaches for me. I avoid anything with it.
This reminds of that trend where they mixed alcohol and water in a gallon water. So many doctors have said “a whole gallon of water is fine, but ounces of alcohol is still alcohol”, you’re still consuming that alcohol and still doing the damage. This same principle applies to the watertoks, 7 pumps of sugar is still 7 pumps of sugar, regardless of how much water you add.
But most of them aren't adding sugar, they're adding sugar free flavoring
@@AreYouSufferingXwhich is still a sweetener
@@futuristicgirl14 with negligible calories. If it helps people meet their water goal, I don't understand the issue.
@@AreYouSufferingX it’s sweetener
@@DevilishDaysxMaui with less than 10 calories per serving, what is the issue?
4:00 that woman is flying on white... thats a place no amount of coffee can take you.
100%
The "water we talking about again?" reminded me to like the video. You are hilarious!
This calorie free stuff is what I loved when I was dealing with a eating disorder. I hope they're enjoying this, but ED people, watch out and maybe avoid water TikTok.
I sincerely love how no matter what the topic is about Jaime always makes it so entertaining, and never hurtful❤
The syrup bottles remind me of the smoothie pump flavors the pretzel treat place, I used to work at, as a teen, had. I vote not water. I was initially on board with people drinking more water even if it’s flavored, but then I saw the syrup and what the drinks look like they’re making. I think people are right to say they’ve gone too far and that isn’t water anymore.
I still support people drinking more water. Just try not to go too far with it like these people seem to have done.
They look like snow cone or slush puppy flavoring. Snow cones are chewing water 👍
“Water we talking about again?” had me rolling! 😂
I was in a research study at our medical campus (Anschutz - in Denver Metro area) a few years ago. The study was on weight loss when comparing a water-only group vs no/low-calorie flavored water group... and the second group lost more weight (the exercise we were required to do was getting 7k steps/day). There have been other institutes that have found the same (or similar) results. (Note, this isn't bc the water flavors provided and additional benefit, but they suspect it was due to a higher level of satisfaction and perceived satiety).
I love plain water, so I don't struggle with getting hydration, but at the end of the day... any water is good water. You wanna make some fancy elixir out of it? Go for it! Life is hard, and if things like this make folks happy (and get them hydrated...), I say go for it. :)
A lot of flavored syrups and sugar free products contain sucralose (splenda) which has been scientifically proven to alter insulin/glucose levels, trigger increased appetite especially in women. The ones that contain high fructose corn syrup which is a by-product of corn which is a GMO causes a similar reaction.
I can't lie... I had gastric bypass in October and I've used a crystal light packet in my 32oz water every single time I make my bottle ... Because I gotta hit my water goals and drinking plain water is rough post op.... I don't have TikTok downloaded so it's hysterical to me that I've been on trend without even realizing it 😂
The four pumps of cotton candy syrup made me gag.
I've literally been putting flavor packets in my bottles of water for YEARS, completely unaware it became a weird tiktok trend 😅😅
Same lol
Same
There’s little else I hate more than the aftertaste of artificial sweeteners, but per usual I love your take on the drama around this trend, friend! It shouldn’t be this deep! 🙌🏻 ❤
I can’t remember which person said this but they talked about how watertok could contribute to EDs and how there was creators using this as a meal replacement, which I think is important to consider, especially when they are ‘marketing’ this as weight loss.
That was my first thought too 😕
As a person that recovered from ED, I will say - almost anything can contribute to ED. For me it was cornflakes ads that tipped me.
And there's definitely a problem with people being like "oh it's water, it's healthy!" when they're dumping sugar packets into it. Just drink goddamn water or use Crystal Lite like a normal person.
A lot of them also use sugar free flavorings too which make you crap your brains out. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that is a wanted side effect for them
Yup. As someone that's struggled with disordered eating, I recognize the habit of drinking so many low calorie drinks that you don't have much room for anything else. Alarms immediately went off once I saw these videos.
"I'll tell you what it schwaz" sent me 🤣 I haven't heard that in forever
Being an Aussie this whole watertok thing is hysterical 😂 "My Dad picks the fruit to make the cordial that I like beeeeest"
This is what I came here to say... If you know,, you know...
Thank you for including your bird in your videos! He's a sweetheart and must be protected at all costs 😍
Truly the best little helper 🥹 he was trying so hard to open the boxes for her.
Thank you Jaimie for bringing another hilarious "thing" from Tiktok for us who don't use the platform! Being from the UK, again, I am astounded by what y'all do over there! The problem I'm seeing with this trend is that you can be overhydrated and be drinking too much water. Plus the insanely ridiculous amounts of sugar/sweetener that would be in those packets and syrups. Makes sense why some of those watertokers are so hyper 🤣
Most of the flavor packets are sugar free though
@@s.a.6082 Yeah but they'd be full of artificial sweeteners instead which is far worse. It would be healthier to put a spoonful of actual sugar in water lol.
@@dpalmerama it wouldn't though, drinking sugary drinks is awful for your teeth. artifical sweeteners are way better for your teeth and you need less of it. there are some sweeteners that are controversial but saying sugar is healthier? absolutely not.
The reason why some people are upset about these tiktokers referring to their sugary drinks as "water" is because words have meaning and if we use words in ways they were not meant to be used, then it opens the door for all types of confusion . Imagine if you asked for a glass of water and instead someone brought you tea or kool-aid? You be a bit upset chz that's not what you asked for. Having people completely mislabel what they are drinking can be bad because there's a possibility that these concoctions of sugar and syrup have different affects on the body than just pure water. If you refer to juice or tea as flavored water, you're spreading misinformation that you can add a bunch of chemicals to water and have it still be water and that's factually untrue.
I’d say it’s flavoured water at the very least. But hey, if it’s that what it takes for those people to get proper hydration then good on them! Though I would definitely worry about that much sugar substitute intake. (sucrose, aspartame etc) As we do know those have their own health risks… I myself prefer good old plain water, nothing better or more quenching that good ol’ h20!
Interesting, I thought it would be called “flavored” water. 🤔🤷♀️ The watertok controversy tells me people didn’t listen in English class and forgot about adjectives. 😂 Thank you Jaime for informing me of this trend I had not known until your video 💧
Exactly! That's all it is. Flavoured water. Like, hasn't crystal light been around for 30 years?
Ya the people calling it juice confuse me. Is t juice when a fruit is “juiced”
Agree
@@ThisIsKassia ikr?!
@@clairewillow6475 Yep! By definition juice is “the liquid obtained from or present in fruit or vegetables” 🧃🍏😂
I love some cold brew as long as it’s Jaime covering it! I think it would be so fun to watch her cover much older stories because she always gives me the feeling of nostalgia.
You and your husband are adorable 😂😭 and the bird making the water sounds. 😂 my husband does it all the time and i can never do it LOL
I feel like the downside would be that they’re ingesting way too many dyes and chemicals with their water…but also it’s not my body so I really don’t give a hoot 🦉. I always enjoy your commentary on everything! ❤
What chemicals?
@@gogosmalls8785 look up what those water flavors are made of or look on a box at the store. theres tons of chemicals both normal and bad
If adding some flavors to their water helps increase their water intake and keeps them hydrated then I’m all for it. Let people enjoy things.
I guess I want to play devil's advocate here because over the past decade or so there has been a huge rise in artificial sweeteners and flavorings that are added into our food and drinks. I saw this documentary where teenagers were crying because they were so addicted to sugar and artifical sugar. They are overweight, pre-diabetic, and not getting enough exercise. TikTok is so influential to young brains, and I'm afraid that this trend is just going to promote everyone drinking a lot more sugar-water, which isn't healthy. Yeah, you're drinking more water but you're also drinking a crap ton more sugar. Artificial sugar or "sugar-free" options can be bad for your health too (even large quantities of Monk Fruit or Stevia shouldn't be consumed in a day). They can actually dehydate you more. High sugary drinks can transfer water out of your cells and increase urination over time.
I think of it like a salad. Yes, a salad can be very healthy for you. But after you've added a bunch of ranch dressing, bacon bits, and croutons, the "salad" is now more unhealthy than nutritious. If you ate that type of salad three times a day, then you'd gain a bunch of weight and have high cholesterol. You can tell everyone, "But HEY - I was eating salad the whole time," but you're just kidding yourself.
We're already addicted to sugar in America and this isn't helping. Why not do this with healthy soups or something? At least you'd be getting more hydration and some sort of nutrition with the broth.
You would be better off just making yourself drink two glasses of water in the morning and giving yourself a sugary treat every so often. It seems impossible for Americans to establish any healthy habits without first thinking, “how can I make this taste better?” We’ve not only commercialized how you should drink water, but also what container you carry your water in. It’s WATER! It’s not a Gucci purse. 😩
What’s next? “Air Tok” where we spray air fresheners everywhere we go so we remember to breathe more?
LOVE YOUR COMMENT ❤
There is no evidence to suggest that large quantities of monk fruit or stevia can dehydrate you more. Where did you hear that? Monk fruit and stevia are both considered safe non-nutritive sweeteners and are often used as sugar substitutes.
Agree, 100%. I'm too tired to elaborate so I'll just say it makes me a little sad how we are all so vulnerable to consumerism but that's nothing new.
I'm concerned about the sheer volume of water they are drinking too. Unless you are running a marathon in a desert you are just going to wash your electrolytes from your body, which can cause heart and cognitive issues. One of my friends ended up in a coma because she took advice about hydration to an extreme (she has recovered)
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Okay I just found you like literally yesterday and am just going back to watch more and I didn’t know you were a bird lover!! Your grey is absolutely beautiful ❤
I had an okay time during this video 😂😂😂 love you Jaime. The guy that had the "it's called kool...aid" 😂😂😂
I didnt see ur comment before I made mine... But yes he's correct it's got dang kool aid 😭🤣
That guy had to be joking.....right? Either that or he had a deprived childhood.
@@WasthatCourtney he was joking
This trend is wild. Essentially, Americans have discovered squash. Here in the UK, we have squash. Endless flavours, and is a staple item in pretty much EVERY household. Essentially it’s very, very concentrated juice and you just mix with water. It’s so common here, I’ve always been surprised that squash isn’t a thing in the USA.
We've had the same in America for a long time, simply called 'juice from concentrate' or similar. But it sort of fell out of vogue and other things took its place, like flavored drops you squirt into water, or the powders shown here.
Reading this as the plant squash really changes the vibe
We do have this in America though. My mom's been using it to flavor her water since the early 2000s and you can find the flavor packets in most grocery stores. Idk why people are making a big deal out of it all of a sudden.
I use flavored drinks for my water since last year to help me stay away from sugar. They're sweetened by stevia and not only do they taste delicious, they made me drink more water than I would normally do (I have a tendency to completely forget to drink water).
Stevia is good. That’s a healthy sugar substitute.
We love the ones with stevia, too. Aspartame crosses the blood-brain barrier and, at best, gives headaches, and, at worst, has been linked to brain cancer.(I guess the median issue is aspartame poisoning! Yikes!) But, seriously, I've never had gastric surgery yet water still sometimes hurts my stomach. The stevia flavorings help a lot!
I laughed out loud SO MANY times while watching this. Thank you for this!
You mentioned people's taste preferences, which is a fascinating topic I've looked into. This is something that's actually been studied; it's called taste perception. It's complex and influenced by factors like taste buds, smell, texture, and personal experiences. Non-tasters have a muted sense of taste for certain flavors, like a low volume button for bitterness in dark chocolate. Supertasters, on the other hand, have taste buds with the volume turned up high, making strong or spicy tastes overpowering. Most people fall in between these extremes.
All that to say, we really, really don't know what something actually tastes like to someone else unless we ask them and even then...
Isn't it fascinating? And the food companies have researched even further to establish what they call the "bliss point" for various foods. That's the levels of salt, fat and sugar needed for optimal enjoyment. They have big focus groups of various tasters to try to pinpoint the right combo.
I wonder if your senses can be blunted for certain tastes and super sensitive for others. I find dark chocolate and black coffee SO bitter, but I need to add so much vinegar, lemon, lime, etc. to really feel like I’m tasting it.
I love how your bird looks at you, so closely as you talk. I bet he repeats some funny things
As a person who hates drinking water, I find it more palatable if I add some lemon juice or even just fruit juice. Not only do I hate drinking water, but I do struggle to keep it down sometimes without feeling nauseous.
Same, and it wasn't until I started liking sparkling water that I stopped struggling! It took me years to realise that it's a sensory aversion for me, still water tastes like nothing and makes me feel all sloshy and that makes me very uncomfortable.
@@Snooznoo same for me, the sensory part. It wasn't until just last November I finally had a doctor that really listened and looked into it. By my next appointment he was ready. He even had a nice detailed beverage journal with premade logs for me. I came in a week later, we went through the journal and he made some more recommendations.
By the next month I was good to go.
I'm 34 (Ill be 35 on the 27th) so this was a struggle for years and I had so many doctors treat me like Im a lazy potato. Im 5'4, 38-34-40, 165lbs but as soon as Id tell them water makes me sick they would start their typical annoyance.
All I could stomach the last 10 years has been Mt Dew Code Red. One of the worse drinks.
I'd drink 4-6 cans a day, nothing else. Now Im drinking these ICE carb. waters, I don't love them, barely like them but I can stomach them at least.
@@vixxxenfoxxx3660 I'm glad you've found something that works, I hope they make a difference for you!
@@vixxxenfoxxx3660 this is me exactly. I hate the taste of most water and I get so nauseous when I drink it. I literally live off dr pep with sips of water in between and have tried everything to make water taste better or not make me sick and nothing yet😢
I was going to comment about how the cheaper “packets” with artificial sweeteners caused me much gastrointestinal distress. I learned the hard way in college….😂
My friend dug a hole in his garden and filled it with water.
I think he meant well.
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*Spits out drink* 😂😂😂
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@@kaywee4200 😊😊😊
I literally went on a deep dive about water tok yesterday and here you are ^^ bless you
They have places that basically make these flavored waters and teas, and I tried one once and it was soooo sweet and soooo artificial tasting that I couldn’t finish it. I get the pushback that it’s not water because you’re adding so much crap to it that it’s kinda not water, regardless of if it hydrates you or not. Gatorade is full of dyes and artificial flavors and sweeteners, but it hydrates you, so is it water? I’m with Jaime in the sense that who cares what these woman drink, but calling it water feeling kinda disingenuous or deluded somehow. When I pour a package of Liquid IV into my water bottle during my softball games, I’m basically drinking a Gatorade to hydrate myself, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but I’m also not deluded enough to say I’m drinking water lol. To each their own though.
It's water, but it's water with crap in it I guess.
@@StellaWaldvogel well that could be a coke also. It’s still water but has crap in it. And nobody calls that water! Same with these “Watertok” things. It’s simply not water
I know this video is a year old but holy wow I did not expect to see something from SHFIFTY FIVE!!!!