Jon Drinks Water #3950 GNC Live Well VS Kirkland Purified VS Big Chill+ VS Penta VS San Benedetto

"Jon Drinks Water #3950 GNC Live Well VS Kirkland Purified VS Big Chill+ VS Penta VS San Benedetto" is a water-comparison tournament video from Jon Drinks Water, episode #3950 of the series.

Featured waters

Big Chill Plus (variant), GNC Live Well, Kirkland Purified, Penta, San Benedetto.

Winner: Penta.

What Jonathan decided

Penta = winner (round three); GNC = 2nd; Big Chill = 3rd; San Benedetto = 4th; Kirkland = 5th

Big Chill Plus (variant)

Penta won round three, GNC took second, and Big Chill landed third, ahead of San Benedetto and Kirkland. A respectable middle-of-the-pack finish.

About Big Chill Plus (variant)

Same Big Chill brand line as above: slightly alkaline, mineral-enhanced, budget-friendly. In this five-way it held its own against bigger names and finished ahead of two of them.

GNC Live Well

GNC won round two against the Vitamin Shoppe water, then came in second in round three behind Penta, which is a solid showing.

About GNC Live Well

"GNC Live Well" is the private-label natural spring water of GNC, the health and wellness retailer headquartered right here in Pittsburgh, sold in 16.9 oz bottles in 24-packs. "Live Well" is the company's core slogan. Details on the actual spring source are not publicly documented.

Kirkland Purified

Kirkland won on price against Laurel Ridge, which is the Costco way. It later finished last in a five-water round won by Penta, behind GNC, Big Chill, and San Benedetto. Price is not everything.

About Kirkland Purified

Costco's Kirkland Signature Purified Water is bottled by Niagara Bottling, the largest family-owned bottled-water company in the US, under a contract going back to the 1990s. It is purified by reverse osmosis with food-grade minerals added back for taste and no fluoride added. It is legendary for value: 80-packs of 8 oz bottles for under $24. The most common complaint is the very thin plastic bottle.

Penta

Two wins for Penta. It beat Evamor in #3737 ("a tiny bit better," while Evamor had a slight salty taste and 4% daily sodium a bottle), then won Round 3 of #3950 against four others. A quiet, consistent winner.

About Penta

Penta is a premium ultra-purified water made by United Beverage in Carlsbad, California, owned by Charles Soderstrom. It uses a patented 13-step, 11-hour purification process (they say it is "refined by physics"), with under 1 ppm total dissolved solids, natural pH 7 to 8, and oxygen infused. The Carlsbad bottling facility runs on 100% solar power, and it is sold in about 3,500 retail outlets plus internationally.

San Benedetto

In a five-water round, San Benedetto finished fourth. Penta won the round, followed by GNC and Big Chill.

About San Benedetto

Acqua Minerale San Benedetto is an Italian mineral water company founded in 1956 near Venice, controlled by the Zoppas family. It is one of Italy's largest beverage companies, active in over 100 countries.