Why does spring water taste sweeter than mineral water?
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There are two parts to this:
1. The mineral make-up of the water influences its flavour. A water from any given spring will taste slightly different to the water from another given spring. The same is true for mineral water – depending on the makeup of minerals in that water, it may well be sweeter than water from another spring.
2. The psychological effect. People generally can’t tell the difference between tap water and bottled water if they aren’t told which is which: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-70272-y
>hese results indicated that the participants could not distinguish between the two water varieties and that the indistinguishability of the water varieties was statistically significant.
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