It sounds like something out of a James Bond movie, and looks just as sinister. Blackwater is more action-packed than evil, though.
Part of the rising black water trend, this relative newcomer by Trace, a Vancouver-based natural beverage company, caught our attention as we were leaving a fitness store in Kits.
Made from fresh, British Columbian spring water, the H2O is infused with plant-based fulvic and humic acids and minerals, which literally turn the water a deep, ominous, impressively inky black.
It’s a mind-bending experience. At first it looks as though the bottle is black thanks to a clever label wrap. Then, as you crack the lid to take your first sip, your brain tells you you’re about to let flat, leftover cola touch your lips. Or even worse, watery coffee. But then you close your eyes and it doesn’t matter if it’s black or white. The taste is refreshing, crisp, and slightly silky thanks to the water’s alkaline pH.
And it packs the wow-factor (which is, of course, an essential part of any beverage buying decision). My husband grabbed it out of my hand when I got home and drank it—until it was gone—in disbelief.
Hype around fulvic acid ranges from better hydrating properties to ridding the body of impurities to more elaborate assertions of it being a free-radical fighting “miracle molecule”. We don’t know about any of that; but even if black water can’t cure its way out of a paper cut, it certainly looks like magic, and tastes pretty darn cool. —Kelsey Klassen
Trace Mineral-Infused Blackwater. $1.99 for 500mL; available at London Drugs.
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