Fluoride Watch
Fluoride Watch is a list of drinks confirmed to be fluoride-free. We confirm each either through testing or simply asking the companies. When we reach out to companies, we tell them that we've got a family member with a severe fluoride allergy, and we need a straight answer regarding fluoride content. For further information, read "The Case Against Fluoride" by Doctors Connett, Beck, and Micklem. And support projects like Fluoride Action Network and Truth About Fluoride.
Fluoride Watch is run by John Galt of Military Studio. Reach out here: [email protected].
fluoride-free drinks and products
- SpinDrift - they use reverse osmosis. Though the tea flavors will likely have fluoride from the tea leaves themselves. That however is naturally-ocurring fluoride, so up to you if that avoid it.
- Distilled Water - always the safe default. Can be found in even the worst dollar stores. It's said that distilled water, being void of any vitamins and minerals, can cause dehydration. Good to use when nothing else is available, but better to add trace mineral drops, sea salt, or something like that to it. It is also good to use as a base for drink mixes, or to shower in when you're in heavily-fluoridated areas.
- Most every single European or Eastern European soda. Many stores carry tons of European products, even food. Pastas, breads, etc. These types of things are better from Europe because they do not use fluoride in their drinking water. European stores are also everywhere in the US. Sometimes they are more Western European, sometimes more Slavic. Both should be free of fluoride-infected products.
- Kalona Supernatural Milk & Products - “We do not use fluoride as an ingredient and to our knowledge, it isn't an appreciable component of any ingredients we use. We do not test for fluoride however, and thus cannot say that our products contain no fluoride. Many foods do contain trace amounts of naturally-occurring fluoride, and any present in our products would be naturally-occurring.” I've had much of their stuff without any issues. Not only are they fluoride-free, but this company makes tons of almost-raw dairy products. They even brand it that way. If you’re somewhere without raw milk, this is the company to use. Great products.
- La Colombe Coffee - “None of our products contain any fluoride.” Also just a great tasting coffee. Highly recommend thus far.
- Fever-Tree Drinks - "Fever-Tree products do not contain fluoride and are tested annually to confirm this. The water used in our products is processed using reverse osmosis and then has minerals added back in for flavour and quality. We do not use distilled water." A rare ten out of ten reply. This is the kind of thing we're looking for from companies.
- SmartWater - vapor distilled so it may need some additional vitamins & minerals added. Owned by Coke.
- Bubbly - a fluoride free water made by Coca Cola. Good if there's nothing else to pick from.
- Whole Foods Italian Soda - which is actually from Italy. The Italian still and sparkling waters are as well. There’s a few other imported drinks there as well. Stores like Whole Foods will also have these. Things like Sprouts, Erewhon, etc.
- Trader Joe's has a wide selection of these European-sourced drinks, as well.
- Evian - and the other European waters. Check the labels, sometimes they mention added fluoride.
- Liquid Death - confirmed to me their drinks won't have it. Supposedly made in Austria. Weird, negative branding though.
- Grady's Cold Brew - replied to my fluoride inquiry with not just a hard NO to fluoride, but a screenshot of a test result proving that their product does not have fluoride. They were also the quickest to reply.
- Nixie - "We purify our water using reverse osmosis filtration which removes sodium, fluoride, and other impurities." Shortly after this chat, they released a soda, which I asked about: "Our Organic Zero Sugar Soda is made with water purified with reverse osmosis filtration. Our new soda does use stevia." Of course, I'm against Stevia. Props to them for sticking with reverse osmosis, though.
- Waterloo Water - “At all our facilities, Waterloo uses high-pressure reverse-osmosis filtration as part of our process to remove impurities and produce pure water for our consumers. Such high-pressure membranes are extremely effective at removing a wide range of contaminants. This includes PFAS, as well as shorter chain PFAS. PFAS were undetectable in our finished product. Our products also meet all federal and local guidelines with regard to water quality, including heavy metals. Waterloo is free from fluoride, sodium, chlorine, and a large list of other compounds. The filtration process we use is very effective at removing these impurities.”
- Califia Farms - “The water we use in our beverages is sourced directly from our own personal well and is not taken from a river, public water source, or a private water source. There is no metal, chlorine, or fluoride in our water as the water undergoes an extensive filtration process.” Excellent answer. Well-informed, confident, and aware of the other issues at hand.
- OliPop - “All minerals, including fluoride, are removed from the water that our facilities use with the positive and negative charge contained in the deionized water system.” Very good reply, but sadly this drink is catered to vegans and uses Stevia. I’m personally anti-Stevia and prefer real sugar.
- Local Weather - "We use reverse osmosis water in all of our beverages."
- Straus Family Creamery - "We do not add fluoride to any of our products." Answers like these don't give us perfect certainty, but they're good. For them to make such a statement is a good direction. Will investigate personally.
- Pop & Bottle - "We always use either reverse osmosis water or spring water, so while we are confident the water is pure, we can't guarantee a particular fluoride content." Reverse osmosis removes fluoride, spring water is a vague term. Haven't tried this personally, but I'm sure it's fine.
- A2 Milk - "There is no fluoride in our products."
- Swoon - "We understand your concern and you don't have to worry as our lemonades do not contain fluoride."
- Zevia - "Zevia's policy is to remove fluoride by using Reverse Osmosis systems installed in our bottlers." But it has Stevia, obviously. Opt for sodas with real sugar, or simply add sugar to sparkling water.
- CulturePop, a nice low-sugar sparkling drink. Not sure about the probiotic aspect of it, but tastes nice.
- Suja Organic - "We use local municipal water from Oceanside, California which is then filtered using a reverse osmosis purification system."
- Daytrip Beverages - "Our prebiotic sodas go through a deionization process. Our sparkling CBD waters, there is no fluoride added and goes through reverse osmosis and carbon filter prior to production." I think 'pre/pro-biotic' sodas are largely a meme, and that CBD is silly, but if you're into that then these are clear. Deionization is a rare and powerful filtration method to rid of fluoride.
- AuraBora - “We can assure you all our sparkling waters are fluoride-free because our reverse osmosis process filters out any Fluoride.”
- ROAR - "We use reverse osmosis water."
- GURU Energy - "Our water originates from Austrian springs, US and Canadian wells, or municipal sources. All sources undergo UV and/or reverse osmosis treatment to ensure the purity of taste."
- United Sodas - "We have extensive measures in place to ensure the utmost quality and safety of the water used in the sodas. Among several processes, it undergoes reverse osmosis filtration and gets treated with UV light."
- Raw Milk - This generally goes without saying, but I am adding it so people know.
- Most Fruit Juices - This also goes without saying, but most all 100% fruit juices are great ways to get fluoride-free hydration.
- Sport Drink - I can confirm because it's a product made by my friends and I. Sport Drink is an electrolyte drink powder with all natural ingredients. Perfect for mixing with fresh, fluoride-free water. Coming soon.
- Equator Coffees - "There is no fluoride in our coffee."
fluoridated products
- STOK Cold Brew - By far the gayest and worst response I’ve ever gotten from a company. In a wall of text they 1. Told me how they just use the tap water from wherever the factories are (with some carbon filtering) and 2. Lectured me on how fluoride is good for you, actually. Not just good, but they cite that it is one of the best health inventions of the 20th century. This is after I opened the article asking if their product had fluoride, because a family member of mine is diagnosed with a severe allergy to it. STOK is owned by Danone, so this is partially expected.
- Halfday Drinks - "Halfday prebiotic iced tea is brewed in a facility that uses municipal water. While we do not add any fluoride as part of our process, we have had the water tested in the past, and there is 0.8ppm of fluoride in the water. The WHO has a safe range of between 0.5 -0.1ppm and we fall well within that range." In case you need me to tell you, 0.8ppm is not a "safe" amount of fluoride and the WHO is dangerously stupid. Anything over 0.2 ppm will affect you.
- REBBL Drinks - They use California’s municipal tap run through carbon. Carbon filtering is said to only remove about 40 to 60 percent of fluoride. This one is up to you, not fully fluoride free, I’d say.
- Dr. Brown's Soda - "All Dr. Brown’s is bottled in NYC and we use the municipal water here to produce Dr. Brown’s – so, yes there is approximately ~ 0.7 ppm of fluoride in the finished product.” Anything higher than 0.2 or so is not worth drinking, if you ask me. Avoid this one.
- Boylan Sodas - "We do not know the exact amount of fluoride in our products, but we do use municipal water that does contain fluoride."
- Coca Cola Products - I wish it weren't so, because there's nothing like original Coca Cola drinks. I'm willing to put a bounty on this one, to find if there exists within the US a fluoride-free Coke or really any soda by them. Europe has non-fluoridated Cokes, but their import is uncommon. Bounty is out on this.
- Chameleon Coffee - "The water in our products comes from the local public utility where we produce our products. We also carbon filter the water prior to batching. Most food and beverage production and processing utilizes municipal water." This one goes here due to the uncertainties involved. We don't know what county's tap water they are using, and we know carbon filtering doesn't truly get fluoride out. I will check back in with them in the future.
- Kin Euphorics - "For water, we use carbon bed-filtered municipal water." As I said earlier, carbon filtering will only work if the tap water they're using is already very low in fluoride. So sadly, we've got to list this brand as fluoridated. There is no way to confirm what sources they are using as it varies too much.
- Starbucks - Starbucks is an interesting one because I've spoken to many people there who claim that they "triple distill" or use "triple reverse osmosis" in all their in-store drinks, though I've found this to be mostly untrue. I've also never seen this purification system in use at their stores and it looks as though they just use tap water. In addition to this, the sheer amount of Starbucks locations causes much uncertainty. Perhaps it's okay in places like Portland, Oregon or Mims, Florida, where fluoride was outright banned from the public water. As for their packaged products, we will have to investigate.