So what makes you experience flavoured water is simply smelling what comes out of the Air Up Pod as you drink from the bottle. We're thrilled to hear that air up® has become a helpful solution in boosting your water intake and making hydration enjoyable. On Twitter, one mum wrote: 'To be fair, if they help children drink water, they are a much kinder craze than many other crazes. The brand goes on to state: "Retronasal smelling is what makes everything we do possible, as it’s how we ‘bring flavor’ to plain water. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED though, so you can’t complain when you realise everything iv said is pretty much correct.

As a drinking bottle it’s rubbish because all you get is the dregs of a drink, similar to when you’ve reached the bottom of a milkshake but you keep on sucking through the straw anyway ! According to Air Up, " the majority of what we taste comes from our olfactory receptors (part of our anatomy that plays a central role in our sense of smell). Please tick if you would like to receive news, offers and information from our trusted and carefully selected partners that we think you might like. The bottles alone are fantastic (we have one AirUp2 and one of the steel ones) but can’t believe how great the pods are. We're constantly working on bringing new flavors to our range, so stay tuned for more exciting options!I bought one (along with a pack of the Air Up Pods you need for it) and used it for a week to find out. S. in Food Studies, Nutrition and Public Health from New York University, where she studied sustainability practices, particularly as related to food and drink products. If you want to encourage your kids to drink more water and also enjoy interesting flavours without added sugar, consider an air up water bottle! Essentially, Air Up mixes flavoured air with your water, and I found swallowing gulps of water that contain air bubbles an odd sensation.

We asked 11 consumer testers to try the bottle and give feedback on whether they thought the Air Up technology worked, what they thought of the flavors, whether the system caused them to increase their water intake and whether they thought Air Up was innovative or just a fad.It’s like sucking up the dregs of a glass or trying to suck through a straw with holes in… and the noise! Personally, the only problem for me is when pod is up the water sucking up the straw isn’t a continuous flow, but i don’t really mind it!