Bottled mineral water

[FirstTimePigs]

Our girls will be staying with family members for a week. We have moved them onto a Brita filter at home. I'm assuming that (hard) tap water for a week won't be a problem, but are there any brands of bottled water which are pig friendly?

 

[Free Ranger]

Ooh you've had no replies! Sorry I'm not usually in this bit. If you have a waitrose have a look for the duchy water from Scotland - it's mega low calcium at about 3mg/L. But even their own brand gallon sized bottles of 'essential' have only about 30mg/L. It's the calcium content that you're looking for. 'Soft' tap water (low calcium) is about 60mg/L or less. We have hard water round here at about 300mg/L which makes for a scummy kettle. You can find your water hardness online. Water filters can reduce Ca to about 10% of the input. Lots of bottled 'mineral waters' actually have very high calcium. But they should all be labelled on the back as to the amount of things in mg/L. The lower Ca the better. Have a nice break!

 

[Bertie & Jelly]

I found Tescos Ashbeck low too. 11mg if I recall correctly. They do several own brand waters not all as low.

 

[FirstTimePigs]

Ooh you've had no replies! Sorry I'm not usually in this bit. If you have a waitrose have a look for the duchy water from Scotland - it's mega low calcium at about 3mg/L. But even their own brand gallon sized bottles of 'essential' have only about 30mg/L. It's the calcium content that you're looking for. 'Soft' tap water (low calcium) is about 60mg/L or less. We have hard water round here at about 300mg/L which makes for a scummy kettle. You can find your water hardness online. Water filters can reduce Ca to about 10% of the input. Lots of bottled 'mineral waters' actually have very high calcium. But they should all be labelled on the back as to the amount of things in mg/L. The lower Ca the better. Have a nice break!

Thank you - that's so helpful, I will take a look!

 

[FirstTimePigs]

I found Tescos Ashbeck low too. 11mg if I recall correctly. They do several own brand waters not all as low.

Wow, will look out for this. I usually use Ocado but can already see a massive difference in calcium content - Highland Spring doesn't look too bad at 40.5 if I can't make it to another shop

 

[FirstTimePigs]

Ooh you've had no replies! Sorry I'm not usually in this bit. If you have a waitrose have a look for the duchy water from Scotland - it's mega low calcium at about 3mg/L. But even their own brand gallon sized bottles of 'essential' have only about 30mg/L. It's the calcium content that you're looking for. 'Soft' tap water (low calcium) is about 60mg/L or less. We have hard water round here at about 300mg/L which makes for a scummy kettle. You can find your water hardness online. Water filters can reduce Ca to about 10% of the input. Lots of bottled 'mineral waters' actually have very high calcium. But they should all be labelled on the back as to the amount of things in mg/L. The lower Ca the better. Have a nice break!

Thank you - that's so helpful, I will take a look!

I've just seen that Volvic looks pretty good too - 12mg