Head to head
Evian vs Fiji
Published analyses side by side, then an honest verdict.
| Evian | Fiji | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Still | Still |
| TDS (mg/L) | 357 | 230 |
| Calcium | 80 | 19 |
| Magnesium | 26 | 14 |
| Sodium | 6.5 | 18 |
| Bicarbonate | 360 | 160 |
| Sulfate | 14 | 1 |
| Chloride | 10 | 10 |
| Silica | 15 | 96 |
| Nitrate | 3.8 | 1.1 |
The two premium still waters everyone can name, built on opposite ideas. Evian is the alpine benchmark. TDS 357, calcium-bicarbonate (80 mg/L calcium, 360 bicarbonate), balanced and faintly chalky, water with structure you can feel. Fiji is soft artesian water from a Viti Levu aquifer, lighter at TDS 230 but carrying the highest silica we track (96 mg/L), which drinks smooth and almost sweet, with far less calcium (19 mg/L) and little of Evian’s chalk.
Pick Evian when water should taste like a place, round, mineral, a little chalky, the reference glass. Pick Fiji for silky softness and the silica story, premium as texture rather than backbone.
Full profiles: Evian · Fiji. All values mg/L from the analyses cited on each water’s page.