Single source · Brazil
Minalba
Parque Água Santa spring, Campos do Jordão, Serra da Mantiqueira, São Paulo (1,700 m altitude)
Born at 1,700 metres in the Serra da Mantiqueira with a soft alkaline lift and no sodium worth reporting. It arrives clean and leaves little trace.
Mineral analysis
TDS110mg/L total dissolved solids
Still, light, calcium-crisp with a soft, round finish.
Cation
Ca / MgNa
Anion
HCO₃SO₄ · Cl
Magnesium11.1 mg/L
smooth & easy
Silicanot published
Sodium1.21 mg/L
low-sodium · under the 20 mg/L diet line
Verified · official analysis ↗
- cool elevated freshness
- light bicarbonate softness
- dry almost weightless finish
Minalba is a still water from Brazil with 110 mg/L total dissolved solids and carries 16.8 mg/L calcium, 11.1 mg/L magnesium and 1.21 mg/L sodium (published analysis).
Pristine, untouched source · closest in profile to Highland Spring.
Type · The Minimalist
Find it in: Low sodium · Baby safe · Light
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Common questions
- What does Minalba taste like?
- Minalba is a still water, light-bodied, clean and crisp, closing on a soft, round finish. It belongs to the Minimalist type in our sixteen-part typology, and the house tasting notes run cool elevated freshness, light bicarbonate softness and dry almost weightless finish. Its pH is just over neutral, which on the palate reads as a touch sweet.
- Is Minalba good for you?
- Minalba is a regulated bottled water and safe to drink. The published analysis shows a lightly mineral water at 110 mg/L dissolved solids. Sodium sits at 1.21 mg/L, under the 20 mg/L line, so it suits a low-sodium diet.
- What minerals are in Minalba?
- Minalba carries calcium 16.8, magnesium 11.1, sodium 1.21 and potassium 1.24 mg/L over bicarbonate 110.78, sulfate 0.13 and chloride 0.11 mg/L. Calcium leads the mineral profile with bicarbonate the main anion, at 110 mg/L total dissolved solids.
- How much sodium is in Minalba?
- Minalba carries 1.21 mg/L of sodium. That is under the 20 mg/L line, low enough to suit a low-sodium diet.
- Is Minalba hard or soft water?
- By its calcium and magnesium, Minalba works out to 86 mg/L as calcium carbonate, which counts as moderately hard water. That is the middle of the range, enough body to taste without heavy scale.
- Is Minalba alkaline or acidic?
- Minalba sits at pH 7.76, just over neutral, so faintly alkaline rather than a true high-pH water. On the palate that reads as a touch sweet.
- Can you use Minalba for baby formula?
- On its published numbers, Minalba clears the German infant-formula limits of sodium under 20, nitrate under 10 and sulfate under 240 mg/L, at sodium 1.21, nitrate 0.77 and sulfate 0.13 mg/L. Still boil and cool any water before mixing formula, and take feeding advice from your pediatrician rather than a water site.
- Is Minalba still or sparkling?
- Minalba is a still water, bottled without carbonation.
- Where does Minalba come from?
- Minalba comes from Parque Água Santa spring, Campos do Jordão, Serra da Mantiqueira, São Paulo (1,700 m altitude) in Brazil, a single source.