Glassy
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I make Jelly with a 1.25L bottle of Coca Cola sometimes with 110g gelatine. In doing so you take the fizz out especially once the liquid is heated. I’ve tasted the warm gelatine liquid and there is not the slightest sourness to which made me wonder about the hype around phosphoric acid in soft drink. I wondered if the gelatine was neutralising the acid but it’s also what happens when you let soft drinks get flat (they become sickly sweet with no bite). I guess the acid bite in soft drinks is mainly from carbonic acid (dissolved CO2).
I’ve been drinking between 3-800ml of the concentrated magnesium bicarbonate water daily and the only thing I’ve noticed is some very loose bowel movements. I’ve viewed this as mainly a positive thing because they haven’t been horrific, I like to have a quick transit and the bicarbonate seems to take the burn out of the equation. I use MgOH powder which I mix with water before adding to keep the fizzing down. I make my mixes so that there’s still a bit of carbonation left after clearing as I find it tastes horrible if it’s completely gone. I try to drink it before eating because I don’t want to compromise digestion especially if it is liver or oysters which are a once per week thing.
I’ve not used flavoured soft drinks for the bicarbonate water but I’m sure it would be fine. It’s the dissolved CO2 in the water that reacts to form the Mag bicarbonate, any other acids present will be neutralised into their salt form (ie phosphate or citrate).
I’ve been drinking between 3-800ml of the concentrated magnesium bicarbonate water daily and the only thing I’ve noticed is some very loose bowel movements. I’ve viewed this as mainly a positive thing because they haven’t been horrific, I like to have a quick transit and the bicarbonate seems to take the burn out of the equation. I use MgOH powder which I mix with water before adding to keep the fizzing down. I make my mixes so that there’s still a bit of carbonation left after clearing as I find it tastes horrible if it’s completely gone. I try to drink it before eating because I don’t want to compromise digestion especially if it is liver or oysters which are a once per week thing.
I’ve not used flavoured soft drinks for the bicarbonate water but I’m sure it would be fine. It’s the dissolved CO2 in the water that reacts to form the Mag bicarbonate, any other acids present will be neutralised into their salt form (ie phosphate or citrate).