I need to know if I freeze water in a bottle---can I drink it ?

Answer 1

I always do. I have a bunch of bottles of water in my freezer (1/2 full) so that when I'm ready to drink them I just fill the rest with fresh water.

Answer 2

No. You have to wait until the ice in the bottle melts to water. Then you can drink it. Just be sure you freeze the water in a plastic bottle, not a glass bottle.

Answer 3

Yep. But don't freeze glass bottles. As the water freezes, it expands, which could break the glass. Put it in plastic. That's how I keep my lunches cold. I put a couple of frozen plastic bottles in the cooler with my sandwich. By the time lunch time arrives, enough water has thawed so I have COLD water to drink with my sandwich.

Answer 4

Yes you can freeze water in a bottle. But you must break it over your head before the water can be used.

Answer 5

This is from a newsletter my family sent to me a while ago:

1--No plastic containers in micro.
2--No water bottles in freezer.
3--No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters This
information is being circulated at Walter Reed
Army Medical Center. Dioxin chemicals causes cancer,
especially breast cancer.
Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies.
Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this
releases dioxins from the plastic.

Answer 6

well assuming 1)the water was good when you put it in there and 2)you let it melt b4 trying to drink then yes you can drink frozen water

Answer 7

What I found on the web:

Freezing Plastic Water Bottles
An email has been going around about the danger of freezing plastic bottles of water. It goes something like this:

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in their newsletters...worth noting...
Dioxin Carcinogens cause cancer. Especially breast cancer. Don't freeze your plastic water bottles with water as this also releases dioxin in the plastic. Dr. Edward Fujimoto from Castle hospital was on a TV program explaining this health hazard. He is the manager of the Wellness Program at the hospital.

But Johns Hopkins never sent out a newsletter suggesting any such thing. And Dr. Rolf Halden, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has now gone on record to debunk this hoax, noting that if freezing the plastic bottle were to do anything, it would probably make the water inside safer to drink because "freezing actually works against the release of chemicals."

But heating plastic water bottles is another matter. "Halden does warn that another group of chemicals that are used to make plastic less brittle can be released if you place them in hot water or heat them in the microwave." But considering all the junk that we Americans willingly shove into our mouths, the "miniscule amounts of chemical contaminants present in your water supply" probably shouldn't be high on anyone's list of worries.

Urban Legends about Plastic Bottles

In August 2001 Perrier, the world's leading bottle water company, moved away from the iconic trademark glass bottle, which for almost 100 years has set the design standard in mineral water packaging. The company launched a ½ liter format in PET plastic.

PET stands for polyethylene terephthalate, a plastic resin and a form of polyester. PET is the type of plastic labeled with the code “1” on or near the bottom of bottles and containers and is commonly used to package soft drinks, water, juice, peanut butter, salad dressing, oil, cosmetics and household cleaners.

Manufacturers use PET plastic to package products because of its strength, thermo-stability and transparency. Customers choose PET because it is inexpensive, lightweight, reseal able, shatter-resistant and recyclable. Recycled polyethylene terephthalate (RPET) can be used to make many new products.

The only concern with the reuse of plastic bottles is that people can easily spread and ingest bacteria by re-using bottles without properly washing them or allowing them sufficient time to dry.

Urban legends about plastic bottles:

“Avoid freezing water in plastic bottles so as not to get exposed to carcinogenic dioxins”.

Scientists agree that there are no dioxins in plastics additionally freezing actually works against the release of chemicals as they do not diffuse as readily in cold temperatures.

“Reusing plastic water bottles (PET) can cause them to break down into carcinogenic compounds (diethyl hydroxylamine or DEHA).”

According to the IBWA the basis for this claim was a college student's master’s thesis that was not subject to peer review. DEHA, as mentioned in the paper is neither regulated nor classified as a human carcinogen. Further, DEHA is not inherent in PET plastic as raw material, byproduct or decomposition product. DEHA has been cleared by FDA for food contact applications and would not pose a health risk even if present.

Answer 8

frozen water can be eaten but not drank. If it is no longer frozen then the answer is yes as long as it was potable when you put it in the bottle.

Answer 9

yeah the plastic should not affect the water, as long as it was drinking water before hand. it wont make it pure or kill germs if it wasnt.

Answer 10

You must let the ice melt back to water first.