The Verdict Overall, vitamin water is not a healthy beverage to consume regularly. Natural water is the best beverage to drink because it is 100% beneficial to the body and causes no side effects or adverse health effects.

Vitamin Waters used to be made by Glaceau, until they made a famous deal with Coca Cola that bought them up. Now that all Vitamin Water products are made by Coca Cola, they can be found in many places they haven't before. The product line changed in flavors and packaging from what you remember too.

50 Cent was given a minority stake in Vitamin Water and was used in a string of promotional campaigns for the company. 50 Cent pushed the brand heavily in commercials, songs, and more. Vitaminwater sales grew from $100 million in 2004 to $700 million in 2007. In May 2007, Coca-Cola acquired Glaceau for $4.1 billion.

Some vitamin waters are light and refreshing. Others are strange, bitter or wickedly sweet, usually due to cloying, artificial sweeteners, which are so out of place in a drink marketed as a healthy choice.