If you’d like to transform still or sparkling water into a sugar-free drink at home, we have just the recipe for you!
Adding a fruity Flavour Nation flavour, sweetener and a dash of citric acid can transform water into a flavoured cold drink for you without you having to add sugar or a syrup concentrate.
Recipe for sugar-free flavoured water:
Ingredients for making 1 litre
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1.2 grams Flavour Nation Sugar-Free Sweetener
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2 grams Flavour Nation flavouring essence (between 1 – 3 grams depending on the flavour you’re adding)
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1.5 grams Citric acid
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Still or sparkling water (just less than 1 litre: 995.30 ml)
Ingredients for making 500 ml
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0.6 grams Flavour Nation Sugar-Free Sweetener
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1 gram Flavour Nation flavouring essence (between 0.5 – 1.5 grams depending on the flavour you’re adding)
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0.75 grams Citric acid
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Still or sparkling water (just less than 500 ml: 497.65 ml)
Method for making flavoured water:
1. Weigh the sweetener.
2. Weigh and add the flavouring to the sweetener.
3. Weigh the citric acid and mix it into the solution from step 2.
4. Once everything has dissolved, add the remaining still or sparkling water until the total volume reaches 1 litre.
Enjoy!
Our fruit-inspired Flavour Nation essences thrive where there is a harmonious balance of sweet and sour in the mix, so if you’d like to completely transform a glass of water to be a next-level-delicious, sugar-free cold drink, then we suggest there is a sweet and citrus ingredient in the mix alongside our flavouring essence.
The best Flavour Nation essences for flavouring water
- Apple
- Blueberry
- Cherry
- Creme soda
- Dragon fruit
- Elderflower
- Energy drink
- Grape
- Kiwi
- Mango
- Mixed berries
- Passion Fruit
- Peach
- Pineapple
- Pomegranate
- Rainbow (summer fruit)
- Raspberry
- Strawberry
- Strawberry-kiwi
- Unicorn (fruits of the forest)
- Watermelon
Sunny with a chance of cloudiness!
Due to the citrus ingredient in the below flavours, it’s important to note that your mixture may go cloudy when adding them to water.
Flavour that are NOT friends with water
A few of our flavours do not contain propylene glycol and will therefore not mix well with water:
- Chai
- Chilli
- Ginger
- Gummy Candy
- Lavender
- Lemonade
- Lemon Cream
- Liquorice
- Pumpkin Spice
- Spearmint
- Turkish Delight
Starting a flavoured water business?
If you love what you’re tasting to the point where you’re inspired to start your own flavoured water business then you will need to consider adding 0.25g of Sodium Benzoate to your 1 litre water mix as a preservative.
Here is the suggested method for doing a small, 1 litre sample run of sugar-free, flavoured water containing the preservative sodium benzoate:
1. Weigh the sweetener, and sodium benzoate in a small amount of water, and ensure everything is well dissolved.
2. Weigh and add the flavouring to the mixture.
3. Weigh the citric acid and mix it into the solution from step 2.
4. Once everything has dissolved, add the remaining still or sparkling water until the total volume reaches 1 litre.
5. Your mixture is ready for sampling
Important Note: Make sure the preservative is well-dissolved before adding the acids to avoid a chemical reaction.
Technical aspects need to be tested before you’re ready for resale
If you’re making flavoured water at home, you won’t need to worry too much about all the technical aspects (like pH), but if you plan on selling it commercially, you’ll definitely need to consider and test a lot more variables before going to market. Just a friendly heads up before you start your flavoured water business journey 🙂
