Why do different types of water taste so different?
In: Chemistry
Different minerals dissolved in the water, one of the most common is calcium carbonate, which is the white/grey deposit you get forming on the inside of kettles.
If you have Netflix watch the France episode of Down to Earth with Zac Efron. They talk about this and give a bit more detail as well as bottled waters they try to taste the difference themselves.
Basically just different mineral content, whilst water sounds pretty basic as just H2O and pure H2O is tasteless and odourless. However it usually contains lots of different elements and compounds depending on where it comes from. Whether that is spring water, bottled or tap. The different amounts of those elements and compounds will change it’s taste, such as well water often having a chalky or mineral taste because it has filtered through the ground over time.
Mineral content. Different bodies of water and filtration leaves varying degrees of minerals within your water, which can heavily effect how that water tastes.
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