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Nutrition labels are the roadmaps to a healthy diet and lifestyle, providing valuable information about ingredients in foods and beverages. Learning to properly read a nutrition label can help you make informed decisions about maintaining a balanced diet.

For more information on nutrition labels, visit the following link to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

Bottled water applies to a number of different beverage products:

Spring Water, Purified Water, Mineral Water, Sparkling Bottled Water, Well Water, and Artesian Water

Enhanced water beverages are bottled water products that contain ingredients such as vitamins and minerals, flavoring, coloring, caffeine, and herbs.

Water Beverage Nutrition Labels

At left is a typical nutrition label with common ingredients for water beverages. Not all water beverages contain these ingredients, so be sure to read the label of your favorite beverage for its ingredients.

Water Beverages may contain the following ingredients:

1. Sodium
Sodium is an example of an electrolyte.  Electrolytes are salts that conduct electricity and are found throughout our bodies, including in our tissue and blood.  Other examples of electrolytes are chloride, calcium, magnesium and potassium.  Electrolytes are essential to proper hydration and can be diminished as a result of dehydration caused by exercise or overheating.

2. Carbohydrates
Main source of energy in the human body. Chemically, carbohydrates are organic molecules in which carbon, hydrogen and oxygen bond together. Our bodies break down carbohydrates during metabolism to release energy.

3. Vitamins
Nutrients required for essential metabolic reactions in the body. Vitamins can act both as catalysts and participants in those reactions. Our bodies can obtain vitamins through the foods and beverages we consume.

4. Citric Acid
Specific type of flavoring agent.

5. Ascorbic Acid
Antioxidant preservative and flavoring agent that also can serve as a vitamin enhancer.

6. Low-calorie sweeteners
Used in place of full-calorie sweeteners and sugars, these add sweetness without calories. There are five major low-calorie sweetener approved for use in foods and beverages in Canada and the United States:  acesulfame potassium (ace-K), saccharin, aspartame, sucralose and neotame.