In the Good Housekeeping Institute Kitchen Appliances and Innovation Lab, Eva Bleyer has tested everything from blenders to kitchen scales. If you've seen the Air Up water bottle on social media, you may already know that it's a water bottle that utilizes flavor pods to enhance the taste of your water without actually adding any flavoring to the water itself. We understand that finding a flavor you love is a personal preference, but we're always working on expanding our range to cater to different tastes.

Surely I’m not the only one that finds their flavours to be overwhelmingly full of unappealing chemical odor. In our Lab, we performed drop and leak tests on both a plastic and a stainless steel model, and we tested nine different flavor pods that we rated based on flavor, longevity and strength.

We were particularly impressed with the mango-passionfruit pod and its juicy "flavor," but we thought the orange-vanilla tasted artificial.

For example, some testers didn't see themselves reaching for the Air Up water bottle after testing, but others found it to be innovative. Leak testing: During our leak test, each water bottle was left on its side with the lid tightly secured and checked every 15 minutes.Please tick if you would like to receive news, offers and information from our trusted and carefully selected partners that we think you might like. After a lot of begging from her children, Netmums' Joanna Lovell gave in and bought an air up® bottle – but are they worth purchasing? The whole time I used the Air Up Pods, I thought 'Why am I not just putting cheaper, tastier and more sustainable fruit in my drink instead? To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Another tester noted, "The cherry scent was the worst to me — it reminded me so much of that artificial cherry flavor in some kids' medicines.

Upon receiving product and trying, I was immensely disappointed as I realized that I must've misread/misunderstood what the product was delivering.The unusual product has been praised by many parents who struggle to get their children to drink water regularly. Imagine you walking down the street and you get a vague smell of some kind of food, well this is the taste equivalent to that. We're constantly working on bringing new flavors to our range, so stay tuned for more exciting options! We're delighted that air up® has been a life changer for your teenager, helping them reduce their obsession with fizzy drinks.