Cool, this is what I have been lead to believe and searching the web has come up with a lot of mixed results. Water itself does not contain any nutritional value. 2 parts H and 1 part O making it just an element, but water acts as a vesicle for minerals which in plus supplies the much need nutrition.
How can water be a nutrient, which it is, and yet contain no nutritional value? It does have nutritional value.
I'm sorry buddy, but when I used to work with reverse osmosis we used to have to add minerals so that it would not be pure. Water without added nutrients will actually absorb the nutrients from YOUR body thus making you sick.
The definition of a nutrient is something that helps the body live and grow and is used in metabolism. Therefore, water, by definition, is a nutrient. I think it's obvious we're talking about water with minerals.
Conducive to or suggestive of good health and physical well-being. Conducive to or promoting moral well-being. I would say that water fits these categories. Now I have a follow-up question... are marbles food? Because you can swallow them.
Ok ok. So when I started the thread with saying "Water has no nutritional value" everyone takes it upon themselves to answer a question as though its obvious not part of the OP question? Kek kek kek, all fairness, I guess. But this is something I really want to know. Is water itself a nutrient? Or does it act as a vesicle and carry the nutrients. And to you does carrying the nutrient make it a nutrient?
It sounds like you're looking at this backwards. Water is clearly beneficial for the body, but you're just wondering which English word makes this most correct by strict definition.
I already noted in the OP that water is a necessity to the body, why is everyone thinking otherwise? But that necessity is to transport nutrients but it itself, is not a nutrient.
I guess you could say water would always be mixed with something once it enters your body though. So, it may always be carrying a nutrient, which would make it hard to prove that water, alone, is the nutrient. Your title is the problem. It doesn't match what you are really asking.
Can someone give me an example of a food, how and and what happens, when you strip it of its nutritional values and minerals and what not? Like a steak or a apple? Just curious.
i like to always first marinate my water in a valley of naturally organic double D's and let it soak up all the essential nutrients before proceeding to begin intake consumption
