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I started drinking tea for health and wondered whether deionized water extracts more or less of the good stuff. This study confirms it extracts more of the healthy substances than regular water, though it makes it taste more bitter. I use reverse-osmosis filtering followed by an ion-exchange resin filter (ZeroWater) to deionize it.

I started drinking tea for health and wondered whether deionized water extracts more or less of the good stuff. This study confirms it extracts more of the healthy substances than regular water, though it makes it taste more bitter. I use reverse-osmosis filtering followed by an ion-exchange resin filter (ZeroWater) to deionize it.
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[–] • 2 pts

Deionized water can strip minerals from your body since it has none of it's own. It's also damaging to your teeth for that same reason.

It has no taste of it's own, so the bitter you get is the tea unmoderated by water's natural mineral content.

[–] • 1 pt

Deionized water can strip minerals from your body since it has none of it's own.

What happens to the minerals?

[–] • 0 pt

When you de-ionize something, you essentially remove everything that's not the basic molecular structure of the material. In this case, the minerals are all ionic, and you remove them leaving nothing but pure H2O molecules. Since there are no ions (minerals) the material tends to want to collect them again, and you become the sacrificial host.

Minerals in the water are what makes it taste not-flat.

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I mean, what happens to the minerals in your body that you're saying it strips? It sounds like it goes into the water when you drink it, which your body then absorbs...