One of the body’s most important basic needs is water, as our body requires to be well-hydrated to be able to effectively perform essential functions like blood circulation (which helps deliver nutrients to cells), regulating body temperature, keeping joints lubricated and preventing infections. On average, the human body loses about 2-3 quarts of water daily through sweating, exhaling, and urination to eliminate waste. This is why it’s so important to drink enough water every day, as hydrating your body is the primary way to replace all that lost water. It’s unarguable that the best source of hydration is plain water, for which the recommended daily water consumption for adults is between 91 to 125 ounces (2.7 to 3.7 liters) of water for women and men respectively. However, due to its bland taste, it can be discouraging for people to drink enough ordinary water on a daily basis in order to keep their body hydrated and functioning properly. For those who don’t enjoy the tasteless flavor of plain water, there’s Air Up, a simple solution that cleverly solves that issue.
Air Up is a water-flavoring hydration system that allows you to flavor ordinary drinking water through scent by using patented Scentaste technology, which works based on the science of retronasal taste, letting you experience natural-flavored plain water through scent alone. Those natural flavors come from the Air Up pods, which are water-flavoring pods built of an air-permeable material that lets out a natural scent that’s solely extracted from real natural ingredients like fruits, spices, and herbs, flavoring your plain water with an aromatic scent, all without containing any sugars, sweeteners, or other additives. To flavor your water, you also get a lightweight and shatter-proof Tritan plastic water bottle with 22 oz. capacity that’s equipped with a leak-proof lid into which you insert the Air Up pods, plus a straw through which tiny scent-flavored air bubbles travel through to create a sensation of taste. The Air Up pods are available in many different flavors and each pod can flavor at least 1.3 gallons of water.
With this innovative water-flavoring hydration system, you’re able to drink flavored pure water in a healthy fashion instead of having to resort to the typical unhealthy options such energy drinks or flavored sparkling sodas, which are known to contain an unhealthy amount of sugars, preservatives, and other additives that can be seriously harmful to your health in a long-term scenario.
In this article we’ll be discussing how these water-flavoring pods are formulated, the science behind them that makes them work, and then go over the range of flavors they’re currently available in and the existing pricing options.
INGREDIENTS USED (Air Up Pods)
Starting with the ingredients that are used to formulate the Air Up pods, as said previously, these water-flavoring pods are crated of a food-safe, air-permeable material (which the company simply calls fleece) which is applied with a natural scent that’s solely extracted from real natural ingredients like fruits, spices, and herbs.
As such, they don’t contain any sugars, sweeteners, or other additives such as artificial flavorings, nor do they contain any calories whatsoever (tested to have exactly 0 calories), which not only makes these water-flavoring pods perfectly healthy for daily water intake, but also suitable for vegan and vegetarian diets.
This air-permeable fleece material is what allows the Air Up pods to let out their natural scent, which then flavors your plain water with an aromatic scent that creates a sensation of taste.
It’s also worth noting that each pod can flavor at least 1.3 gallons of water.
THE BOTTLE (Air Up Bottle)
To flavor your plain drinking water, you also get the Air Up bottle, a BPA-free water bottle that’s built of Tritan plastic, a durable material that makes it ultra-lightweight while also giving it a shatter-proof construction. We’d also like to note that the Air Up bottle’s plastic content is rated to be made of approximately 50% of certified recycled plastic.
The Air Up bottle has a total capacity of 22 oz. and comes equipped with a leak-proof lid built of ABS plastic into which you’re meant to insert the Air Up pods, plus a straw that tiny scent-flavored air bubbles travel through to create a sensation of taste.
The bottle also features a mouthpiece and carrying strap that are crafted of food-grade silicone, which makes them perfectly safe to drink through.
HOW IT WORKS? – The Science Behind Air Up
To enjoy your flavored plain water with the Air Up pods and Air Up bottle, you simply fill the bottle with ordinary drinking water then activate your flavor pod by inserting it through the bottle’s drinking straw, and you’ll be ready to enjoy your flavored pure water.
When you sip on the Air Up bottle’s straw, those tiny scent-flavored air bubbles pass by the flavored pod and then reach your nose, causing your brain to interpret the scented aroma from the Air Up pods as a real natural flavor, but all you’re drinking is plain water.
Embedded below you have the company’s official video which demonstrates the science behind this water-flavoring hydration system:
FLAVOR CHOICES / PRODUCT VARIETY
As for the flavor options for the pods, know that Air Up pods are available in a wide variety of refreshing flavors including: Peach, Cherry Cola, Raspeberry-Lemon, Wild Berry, Watermelon, Ice Tea Peach, Mango-Passion Fruit, Cherry, Orangeade, Strawberry-Lemongrass, Lemon, Orange-Vanilla, and Apple.
PRICING & AVAILABILITY
If you’re interested in trying out this water-flavoring hydration system, know that the company has different Started Sets available for sale, for which pricing for the basic set starts at just $39.99, and each set comes with a plastic water bottle plus 3 pods of your flavor of choice.
The bottle itself is available in seven (x7) different colors.
Additionally, the company also sells a set that comes with the Gen 2 bottle (their 2nd-generation Tritan plastic bottle) and 3 pods, which pricing starts at $44.99 for a 21 oz. bottle, or at $54.99 for a 33 oz. bottle.
In alternative to their Tritan plastic water bottle sets, the company also sells a set that comes with a stainless steel insulated water bottle (available in 16 oz. or 28 oz.) that can keep water cold for up to 14 hours. Pricing for this set starts at $59.99.
You can order your preferred Starter Set online, either directly from Air Up’s official shopping page, or you can instead get it from Air Up’s Amazon store page.
Customers can also order more Air Up pods of their preferred scent / flavor via Air Up’s respective shopping page, for which prices range between $7.99 up to $12.99.
