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[–] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago

It turns out, that for the values we are talking about here, it actually more or less does! A lemon has a pH of around 2.5, while "Flow" has an advertised pH of 8.1. This means roughly that to neutralize 1L of this water you need approximately 0.4mL of lemon juice or about 8 drops/half a gram. It's hard to tell how much a "spritz" is intended to be, but a single lemon contains about 60mL of juice, so this represents about 0.67% of the total juice inside.

It's a surprising consequence of using a logarithmic scale for pH.