For each grain per gallon (17.1 mg/L) of hardness, a softenener will put 30 mg/gal (7.9 mg/L) of sodium in the water. The US FDA defines the water that would result from softening 100 gpg (1710 mg/L) hard water as a "low sodium" beverage. It should be noted that Most of Maui's areas that are affected by hard water have hardness around 8 gpg.

Very little. In most cases, you'll find less sodium in a quart of conditioned water than in a slice of bread. If your doctor recommends a sodium-free diet, a reverse osmosis drinking water unit can reduce the total sodium content to near zero.

It all depends on the hardness of the raw water. The following table shows the additional amount of sodium consumed by drinking one quart of softened water.

No. Our water has a very low sodium level (10mg/1 or less). This is substantially lower than most well water supplies and many bottled water brands.

For every grain of hardness in your water, 7.5 mg of Sodium will be *added* to each quart of water by the ion-exchange method. If you have water that is 10 grains per gallon hard; you will add 75.0 mg of Sodium per quart of water softened by ion-exchange. To put that in perspective, one 8-oz glass of milk contains 120 mg of Sodium, one slice of white bread contains 114 mg of Sodium. You must also remember that there is *probably* Sodium in the raw water, too.

No. ZEVIA® has no calories, no carbohydrates, no sodium, and no fat. ZEVIA® is Nature's Answer To Diet Soda®.

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YES! Reverse Osmosis was originally designed R.O. make sea water drinkable for the navy. It is ideal for anyone on a low sodium diet. YES! An R.O. membrane has a pore size much smaller than bacteria virus, pyrogen microorganisms from tap water and produce sterile water.

We now know that a single concentration of sodium - 90 meq/L - is suitable for all ages and most degrees of severity (except high output cholera in adults). This is the most robust level. Packet combined chemicals allow for greater safety, as bazaar salt is likely to be coarse and sucrose may be adulterated. Bazaar-bought chemicals may be more often available (not always: shortages of salt and sugar occur in the poorest countries), or perhaps cheaper.

Yes. Any CUNO water softener may use either Potassium or Sodium Chloride as a re-generant without changing settings. This is of special interest to anyone on a sodium-free or low sodium diet.

The City of Ann Arbor's drinking water averages 48.5 mg/l or ppm (parts per million). Most of this sodium is naturally occurring. Hardness in water reflects the mineral content - primarily calcium. These minerals are naturally occurring. The Ann Arbor Water Plant treats the water to reduce the hardness. How well this process works varies seasonally with the water temperature.

Example: if the water hardness is 20 grains per gallon, the softener will add 150 milligrams of sodium to each quart of water. That is equivalent to eating one slice of white bread a day.

The softening process does add some sodium or potassium to the conditioned water. The following chart shows approximately how much sodium or potassium is added to one quart of conditioned water based on the amount of feed water hardness. For comparison, (2) slices of white bread contain approximately 278 milligrams of sodium and (2) cups of milk contain approximately 226 milligrams of sodium. One large banana contains approximately 600 milligrams of potassium.

Example: If the water hardness is 20 grains per gallon, the softener will add 150 milligrams of sodium to each quart of water. 150 milligrams of sodium is equal to eating one slice of white bread.

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None. SLS & SLES (Look at your shampoo bottle and you’ll see in most cases it listed near the top of ingredients.) Soap as everyone knows is very drying and many of the leading products have this ingredient in them. Consequently, it will end up producing more sulfur compounds. Why are they placed in products? They make them foam, the big companies think you won't wash with a product that doesn't FOAM! SLES & SLS has no other use than to make FOAM.