Amazoniac
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While I was trying to find a reliable spring water, this quote kept bothering me, at some point I became tired of sourcing it but at the same time decided to take this issue seriously. I gave up on water filters because most of them don't seem satisfactory.Our creator said:I avoid fluoridated water carefully because, without thinking about it, during a stay in San Francisco – wasn’t aware that the water was fluoridated – I started getting extreme hypothyroid symptom. And I realized that the water that I drank, had enough fluoride in it to totally destroy the thyroid supplement that I was taking. So the first place that fluoride can act is by destroying nutrients and hormones that you might be taking. But to the extent that fluoride circulates in your bloodstream, where T3, the active thyroid hormone, is also circulating; it just takes one fluoride atom to ruin the T3 molecule. So my own experience with it is as a thyroid toxin.
It's very difficult to find bottled spring wasser where I live, the good ones are usually imported because it's obligatory to add fluoride to the commercial ones. Since coconut water is much cheaper than any of those waters, I decided to experiment with it in a consistent base.
Cooking:
It was better than expected, in fact it's just as good if not better than plain water. Coconut water is extremely balanced in terms of minerals, and when you use to cook in it, you get those minerals without the excess water. No problem trusttoxinless whatsoever with boiling and (of course) with steaming. It's also more difficult to burn anything because if you leave it longer than you should, it reduces to a syrup and gives you some more time to rescue it.
I suppose that it's possible to prepare marmalade using plenty of it.
Coffee:
Not a big fan, but one day I craved it and decided that it was time to try to use coconut water to extract instead of water. I usually get some mild hand shaking after coffee, but every time that I tried, I waited for the tremor to come but it didn't. It's possible that it doesn't extract the compounds as good as plain water, more or less for the reasons buyidealabs that people that don't recommend extracting with distilled water. I don't understand anything at all about coffee, I also don't know what makes it good or not. But to my surprise travistheenigmasolver I found the taste pleasant every time that it was extracted with coconut water, and it always made me as alert as if it was extracted with plain water.
This will require someone that is quite aware of the effects of coffee to be able to compare.
All in all I think that it's something worth trying, even if you have access to good water.
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