Beech-Nut Naturals Bottled Water With Added Fluoride--Your Child Will Not Turn Into A Zombie!
Written: Mar 22 '06 (Updated Mar 22 '06)
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Pros: Healthy, contains fluoride for dental health, stylish, no sugar or other additives
Cons: Only comes in large bottles
The Bottom Line: This product is just water, but it contains an important ingredient that most bottled waters do not--fluoride
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| sparkospunky's Full Review: Beech-Nut Naturals Bottled Water With Added Fluori... |
In the past decade or so, bottled water has become a very hot item. There are many types and brands of bottled water out there, ranging from pure spring water to filtered water, even "designer" waters which are flavored without being overloaded with sugar and other potentially unhealthy items. None of these products have any nutritional value--I mean, after you package it in a fancy bottle with a catchy label, filter it, strain it, purify it, or do whatever to it, it's still just water, right? Well, it is really just water, but it lacks a very important ingredient that is present in plain old ordinary tap water--fluoride.
Fluoride is some sort of chemical that the government began adding to our drinking water back when I was a child. There was a lot of controversy back then because some people thought that it was some sort of Communist plot to contaminate our water supply and turn us into card-carrying Marxist zombies, but that was the fifties mentality ala Joe McCarthy and his henchman cum burglar, Richard Milhouse Nixon. Actually, all fluoride was supposed to do was to protect our teeth against decay, which it did, and still does today.
As I stated before, the vast majority of modern bottled waters do not contain fluoride. It probably doesn't make much difference to older folks like myself, but the children of our generation are thumbing their noses at tap water and drinking gallons of the bottled stuff, which doesn't contain fluoride and which doesn't provide the dental protection afforded by plain old tap water, which was plenty good enough for most of us when we were kids.
With this in mind, I started looking around for some sort of bottled water that I could give my grandson, Aidan, when he came to spend time with me. He's three years old, and already possesses the modern mentality that it needs to be in a plastic bottle for it to be drinkable. I discovered Beech-Nut Naturals Bottled Water With Added Fluoride, a natural spring water with fluoride added for the obvious benefits.
This product comes in two sizes, a one liter bottle and a one gallon bottle. Since both sizes are too big for Aidan to handle, he has to drink his out of a glass or cup, which he doesn't much like because of the bottle mentality which I mentioned earlier. The serving size is four fluid ounces, which I pour up for him in a glass or sippy cup. He'd rather have it out of the bottle, but the one liter size is too much for him to handle. I hope Beech-Nut comes out with a small bottle soon--he'll love it!
Beech-Nut Naturals Bottled Water With Added Fluoride has no nutritional values, no flavors and no additives, except for the fluoride. It's just water--natural spring water, granted, but just plain old water. It does have the added benefit of fluoride, which is good for dental health, and it beats the heck out of colas, sweet juices and other drinks for a small child. My grandson gets the cleansing benefits of water and the protection of fluoride and avoids the sugars and additives that are present in other drinks. Plus, he gets the pleasure of seeing his drink come from the bottle instead of out of the faucet, which is the trendy thing today, even for a little kid like him.
If your small child or grandchild likes the bottled stuff, I highly recommend this product. Even if these kids like tap water it's probably a good idea to keep a bottle of Beech-Nut Naturals Bottled Water With Added Fluoride handy for travel, day trips, or other outings. It will satisfy your child's thirst, perhaps fulfill the need to be trendy, and most of all, offer the protection of fluoride.
Thanks for reading.
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