Secondly, they are meant to be used with tap water and don’t have a lot of space in the filter cartridge for added minerals. First, most of these pitchers are more about increasing the pH of the water (and for some the ionization/antioxidant levels as well) than they are adding minerals. Heck, even better would be a single serving powdered green like these as they offer a wider range of benefits for roughly the same cost.īut at larger volumes and for more people they don’t make a lot of sense.Īlkaline pitchers are good options to remineralize reverse osmosis water with a couple of caveats. They work great for those needs and are more like a supplement than just balancing the water out. Grab a bottle of water at the store and add a couple drops. We recommend these to keep in a purse or a suitcase when traveling. They won’t be used when making tea, filling up the coffee carafe or a pot of soup, etc and if you’ve not noticed yet, stale RO water makes for an awful cup of coffee. They’ll be saved for your glass of drinking water only. You’ll also notice that you’ll be selective where you use them. More than that and you’ll quickly find you’re spending $50+ a month on bottles of drops. Many of them add a variety of minerals, not just calcium, and they are very convenient to add to a glass of water.Īt least if it’s only 1, maybe 2 people, utilizing them. Mineral drops have become more popular the last few years and they work well to mineralize RO water. But as an add on to your RO right before the water hits your glass?
If your home has low pH water and you’re worried about the copper plumbing, then by all means, use the calcite in a whole-home cartridge. A form and variety that isn’t just cheap calcium.Ĭalcite filters are the equivalent of the cheapest vitamin you can find. It’s to increase your hydration, improve the taste and give your body a form of minerals it can utilize. So they do work in that respect.īut the goal of adding minerals into your drinking water isn’t to keep it from degrading the RO storage tank or protecting the home’s plumbing. If you do a quick TDS test after installing, you’ll see an increase in PPM as well. The upside to these is the price tag as you can often find them for $30-40. It dissolves quickly and they do a great job making the water less aggressive and destructive.īut they aren’t made with human plumbing in mind. You’ll find them in industrial applications, water treatment plants, and any place where a low pH will cause issues with the pipes and plumbing in a facility. This type of calcium is extremely cheap to manufacturer and makes it the preferred choice in a wide range of applications. Calcite, sometimes called calcium carbonate. You can recognize these by their ingredients. Many of the ROs you’ll find on Amazon or other retailers will have these added as an additional “stage” to their RO. This is BY FAR the most common way we’ve seen on how the problem is addressed and it’s what all the big name companies who sell water softeners and reverse osmosis systems advise. We’ve detailed each below with the pluses and minuses of each approach.
If that’s you, here are the 5 leading ways to do so. Which puts them on the search for how to add minerals back into their reverse osmosis water. Maybe worse initially, they’ve replaced the nasty taste of chlorine with the stale taste of RO water. They’ve made the water cleaner, but not healthy. Of those people though, only a small percentage think about how reverse osmosis also removes the naturally occurring minerals we need in our water before they make the purchase and install. Whatever the reason, more people are adding reverse osmosis into their homes. For others, it’s either because the quality of our drinking water has gotten worse or our level of trust in others to keep that water safe has declined. For some it’s because they are putting a water softener in their home and the only way to remove the added salt is with a reverse osmosis system. Since we got our start way back in 2010, interest in reverse osmosis systems as a filtration method in homes has consistently increased.
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