It has to be refreshing, not too sweet. Because you’d need to drink a lot every day to stay alive, off the top of my head rice water sounds like an ideal drink, I love the flavor and it has less sugar than horchata, you don’t want to have to stuff yourself with sugar every day when you’re thirsty.
Another possibility is hibiscus water. Again - if I could regulate the sugar levels it would be a way to go.
I don’t love tea but yeah it would be tea. Iced green tea lemonade, black tea with milk. If literally only one then iced black tea with lemonade, let it get diluted.
How is “water with lemon” any less of a drink then “tea”. Question was fine if it just said, what drink other than water. But the addition of calling “water with lemon” goofs is not good question for me. Also ban water!! does OP realises almost all drinks for humans are just water and something else mixed to some degree?
If you’re being practical tea makes the most sense as it won’t wear down your tooth enamel or stomach lining or put chemicals in you every day like soda and juice etc… I like Cherry Pepsi but if I drank nothing but that I am positive I’d have ulcers and no teeth after a few years.
Birch sap is my first thought, but I might get tired of the sweet. Some kind of tea then, maybe rooibos. It’s sweet or savoury as the occasion demands.
TIL that’s a thing you have to worry about. It has 52% of your daily value per 100 grams, according to Wikipedia. It looks like we’re pretty well adapted to clear excess amounts out, though, so maybe it’s fine?
D₂O, and then make a living selling my piss to chemical manufacturers
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How Drinking Heavy Water Could Kill You
Algae and bacteria can live with 100% heavy water and no regular water. Plant and animal cells are more complex, so too much heavy water results in sickness or death. One key issue is that heavy water disrupts mitosis, the type of cell division used to repair injuries and grow new cells. The mitotic spindles of cells containing too much heavy water simply aren’t able to equally divide a cell to form two identical new ones.
But, you have to continuously drink and eat only heavy water for several days to see an effect. Replacing 20% of regular water in cells with heavy water is survivable for humans and other mammals (although not recommended). Swapping 25% of water with heavy water causes (sometimes irreversible) sterilization. Replacing 50% of water with heavy water is lethal. It’s not a pretty death, either. Heavy water poisoning resembles radiation poisoning or cytotoxic poisoning from chemotherapy.
It’s pretty impressive how much we can tolerate, honestly. I remember they were accidentally using it in a water cooler at a nuclear power plant for a while, and everybody was fine.
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