And here’s something to make you feel better - despite its acidity, sparkling water is still a better choice for your pearly whites than regular or diet soda. The best advice is to enjoy your fizzy beverage with meals and stick to plain water between meals for hydration. If you’re a sparkling water or seltzer junkie, don’t freak out. The issue really comes in when carbonated water is flavored with citric or other acids, making them more acidic and more harmful to your teeth. The good news is carbonic acid is a weak acid, so a sparkling water, like Perrier or San Pellegrino, has a pH of about 5.5 compared to bottled still water, which has a neutral pH of 7. The minerals give the sparkling soda a health significance by helping maintain your bodys pH balance and providing quick energy rejuvenation. This acid can gradually weaken and destroy tooth enamel over time. Club soda has potassium bicarbonate and sodium nitrate to replicate the mineral compounds present in natural mineral water. The concern is over the carbonic acid, which forms when carbon dioxide is dissolved in water. Now, what about your chompers? Will they be destroyed by all that carbonation? You may have read that carbonated water can harm the enamel on your teeth. It's definitely interesting, but one small study in rats with soda doesn't mean that your sparkling water habit will make you gain weight. The researchers did repeat the study in 20 young men and found that their blood levels contained more ghrelin after consuming the soda than after drinking regular water or flat soda. The weight gain was linked to a hormone called ghrelin. Also, the study was done in rats and showed that fizzy drinks caused them to eat more and therefore gain more weight over a six month period. Well, if you dig a little into how the study was done, you'll find that soda - both regular and diet - was used, not plain sparkling water. Check with your doctor if you’re not sure whether the medications you are on could cause any side effects if combined with quinine. However, quinine can interact with certain medications, such as blood thinners, statins and antacids. Quinine gives a bitter flavor to the beverage, which makes it pair well with lime and gin. Tonic water was created in 1858 in Britain, but wasn’t introduced to the United States until 1953 when Schweppes began bottling it. 1 The facility does not currently operate its own website, but an article published in the Tribune-Star in 2010 a sober-living facility with close links to the. Along with sugar or high fructose corn syrup, tonic water also contains citric acid, sodium benzoate (as a preservative), quinine (a naturally occurring chemical) and natural flavors. about club soda Located in downtown Terre Haute, Ind., Club Soda describes itself on Facebook providing an environment conducive to recovery and supportive of 12 step programs. This bar staple is a departure from the other waters in that it is sweetened. It has 95 milligrams of sodium per 12 ounces, so stick to one serving a day to avoid sodium overload. Most commonly used as a mixer, club soda is a mix of carbonated water with sodium bicarbonate, sodium chloride and potassium sulfate, to enhance the flavor.