DIY sparkling water…without cartridges
After three years of R&D, Paris-based start-up Bubble It has developed a means of creating sparkling water, without any plastic or CO2 cartridges.
How does it work? First, you fill up a bottle with tap water, pour in Bubble It’s two sachets, close the bottle, give it a shake, and voila! While the start-up didn’t reveal which ingredients are packaged in which sachet, together the two paper sachets contain potassium bicarbonate, malic acid, dietary fibres and natural flavours. When in contact with water, these ingredients produce effervescence.
“It’s the combination of the ingredients that creates CO2”,” explained Bubble It’s Jean-Michel Ginèbre. “You pour them in and close the lid very quickly, otherwise the CO2 escapes.”
The start-up has also started selling flavours to accompany its DIY sparkling water sachets. “Each bottle has enough flavouring for 25L of sparkling water,” Ginèbre elaborated.
Bubble It is already selling into supermarkets across France.
