Thanksgiving Day is one of the most important holidays for the United States and Canada and is traditionally a day for families and friends to get together for a special meal. Preparations start way in advance and everyone tries to bring the perfect recipes to that big table: turkey, stuffing, potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, pumpkin pie, and vegetables. But what about the perfect water to pair these important dishes with? What is the perfect recipe for that?

What is Naturally Sparkling Natural Mineral Water?

Unlike soda water, the natural mineral water has natural bubbles that are linked to its structure in an organic way, just as nature provides, not added artificially. It is richer in minerals and it is the best choice for a long, abundant meal, like Thanksgiving. Naturally sparkling mineral water is beneficial for the body, unlike the artificially carbonated water that increases the acidity and the blood pressure.

Perfect Water Trait: Natural Bubbles = No More Acidiy

It is important that the carbon dioxide be taken at source, stimulating the metabolism. Naturally sparkling mineral water or water charged with carbon dioxide taken at source is not acid, but is decomposed in base molecules, reducing acidity. Unfortunately, there are only a handful of bottled waters that have such properties.

When the natural bicarbonates (HCO3) are ingested with mineral sparkling water, they help buffer the acidity of dietary components, so drinking a water rich in these elements will help ease digestion, especially with larger meals or for people suffering of  high gastric acidity. Naturally sparkling mineral water like AQUA Carpatica is the best choice because it is richer in bicarbonates (1281) than still water and by quenching thirst you also help your body through the digestion process.

Perfect Water Trait: Less sodium

Salt or the sodium chloride is an essential mineral for the adequate functioning of the body, but only in limited quantities, because otherwise there is the risk of occurrence of cardiovascular diseases. Our modern diets contain alarming quantities of sodium, so limiting the intake is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

Doctors’ recommendation both for hypertensive persons and for the ones with cardiovascular diseases is to consume water with a content of sodium below 20mg/l. Usually, naturally sparkling mineral water has more sodium than recommended, because of its richer mineral content, but in the search for the ideal water, the amount of sodium is below 10 mg/l, such as AQUA Carpatica which has less than 5,3 mg/l sodium.

Perfect Water Trait: More Calcium

Calcium is the mineral element most present in the body and is concentrated in the bones, teeth, tendons, nails but also in the cell nucleus. Besides magnesium, it assures the adequate functioning of the cardiovascular system, by assuring the heartbeats, but also of the nervous system, because it is a remedy against insomnias and it is essential in transmitting the nerve impulses. Calcium is involved in multiple essential metabolic processes such as: blood coagulation, adjusting the permeability of cellular membranes, limiting the allergic processes, stimulating the gastric secretion, metabolization of iron, efficient use of vitamin B12 and hormone release.

The calcium deficiency occurs when the food calcium content is not sufficient to assure the necessary functions and the body compensates from bones, teeth and tissues, weakening them. Among the diseases caused by the calcium deficiency are rickets, osteoporosis, osteomalacia, muscular spasms, light-headedness and weakness, insomnia and irritability.

Doctors’ recommendation for adults is to assure a daily calcium amount between 800 and 1200 mg, both from food (dairy products, soy, tofu, hazelnut, walnuts, broccoli, sardines, salmon) and from the natural sparkling waters. The persons with hypocalcaemia are recommended to increase the dose up to maximum 1500 mg of calcium per day.

AQUA Carpatica mineral sparkling water – is, due to the content of calcium, an ideal water to compensate for the lack of calcium in the body by its very good macro and microelements mineralization. It has a content of calcium of 286 mg/l, one litre of AQUA Carpatica assuring a quarter of the average recommended quantity.

Perfect Water Trait: More Magnesium

Magnesium is the mineral element essential for the health of the body. It helps maintain both physical and psychological well-being because it plays an important role in the metabolic processes such as the production of energy, acid and protein synthesis, in muscle relaxation, in the prevention of diabetes and kidney stones and metabolism regulation. Magnesium plays an important role in metabolisation of Vitamin C and in adjusting the body temperature but it is also a general regenerating factor since it delays ageing and strengthens the immune system. Among the functions magnesium has in the body, the most common one is the prevention stress and its effects on the body.

The lack of magnesium causes hyperemotivity, headaches, trembling, dizziness, insomnia, spasms and numbness of extremities – popularly known as “cramps” – bone pains, allergies and decrease of immunity and the general well-being,

The cardiac system is also affected by the lack of magnesium as it is essential in regulating the heartbeats and leading to palpitations and angina pectoris. The necessary magnesium intake may be supplemented also by a sparkling mineral water rich in magnesium.

The doctors’ recommendation for adults is to assure a daily amount of magnesium between 300 and 320 mg, both from food (cabbage, beet, plums, pumpkin seeds, bananas) and from the natural sparkling waters. The people who have a magnesium deficiency deficit are recommended to increase the dose up to maximum 350 mg of magnesium per day.

AQUA Carpatica sparkling mineral water – is, due to its content of minerals, an ideal water to compensate for the lack of magnesium in the body by its good macro and microelements mineralization. It has a content of magnesium of 78 mg/l, one litre of AQUA Carpatica assuring almost a quarter of the average recommended quantity.

Perfect Water Trait: Pure, no harmful chemichals

It is very important that the water you choose is most of all pure, with no traces of pollution, toxic of chemical waste in its composition. One of the most untalked about harmful chemical – one that its not even on some lables! – are  nitrates. They are chemical compounds used in agriculture. Good for plants, but harmful for people, nitrates are colorless, odorless and tasteless substances found in groundwater and aquifers situated under agricultural lands.

Once ingested through water or contaminated foods, the nitrates are turned into nitrites – much more toxic than the nitrates, after the contact with the stomach bacterial micro flora. The ingestion of a larger quantity than the one allowed can have the following consequences: high blood pressure, dysfunctions of the circulatory system and thyroid glands, cephalalgia, urticarias, intoxication, severe cyanosis, and in time even some types of cancer.

Currently there is no regulation regarding nitrates and infants in the US that differs from the MCL limit for adults of 10mg/L of nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N) Especially little babies under 6 months can become seriously ill if exposed to nitrate levels above 10 mg/L.

There is also a proven correlation between birth defects and high nitrate levels in the carrying mother. Pregnant and nursing women should avoid drinking water with Nitrate levels greater than 2.27 mg/l NO3-N according to doctors and specialists.

AQUA Carpatica naturally sparkling water is NITRATE Free, perfectly pure, so that is one thing you mustn’t worry about.

Perfect Water Trait: Great taste, no aftertaste

When paired with a special, perfectly cooked meal, the role of the water is to complement the food, to enhance its flavors and not influence its taste in a negative way. Sometimes, rich in mineral the naturally sparkling water can taste sweet, salty, sour or bitter, depending on the balance of minerals it contains: more calcium is sweeter, more magnesium is bitter, more sodium is saltier, artificial and acidic bubbles is sour. Just the right amount of every component will make an excellent tasting water and no unpleasant aftertaste.

Can you pick the perfect water now?

A perfect naturally sparkling mineral water has to be in balance with all its components, with all the minerals and physical-chemical characteristics in the optimum parameters so that its final taste, the health benefits, the sophistication and sensation of the natural bubbles, the natural purity are a simple, yet precious gift of nature that you can put on your Thanksgiving table.

AQUA Carpatica is now here to join your Thanksgiving Day. You can find both natural spring and naturally sparkling mineral water exclusively at Sprouts Farmers Market across the USA. We are sure that you will find the design suited for one of the most important dinners of the year!