KOMIN Natural Mineral Water has won the ‘Bronze Award in the Still Water Category’ in the International water-tasting competition held in Guangzhou, China. ‘Komin Natural Mineral Water’ was the only brand from India to win the award making KOMIN the torchbearer for the Indian High end water Industry.

This is a matter of pride for India as water from the natural aquifer of Komin located in the Sahayadri Range got International recognition. – The event saw a participation of 2,200 brands across various categories from countries like Russia, Germany, Bulgaria, New Zealand, Argentina, Korea, Italy, Hong Kong, Taiwan etc and the jury were renowned experts in this field.

The renowned Jury comprised Mr. Michael Mascha (Creator and Publisher of FineWaters (www.finewaters.com). Dr. Mascha is also the author of the acclaimed book ‘Fine Waters-A Connoisseur's Guide to the World's Most Distinctive Bottled Waters called “an encyclopedia of water, a bible of water” by the London Times.), Martin Riese (Water Tasting Educator, acclaimed author, Water Sommelier at Patina Restaurant Group in Los Angeles, and the world’s foremost water sommelier.), John Zhu (Co-Founder and CEO of Purelogica “The World’s Finest Luxury Water Collection.), Horacio Bustos (HONORARY MEMBER of the Circle of Water Tasters endorsed by European Tasters of Water) and Dr. Jae Youn, Ko(President, Korea International Sommelier Association.

About KOMIN Natural Mineral Water

KOMIN Natural Mineral Water is pure drinking water that promotes nutrition and wholesome living.KOMIN was born from the belief that the benefits of natural mineral water needed to be brought to the world. It is bottled at the source in the Sahyadri range and is a member of the renowned Fine Water Society. It is available on popular platforms like Amazon, Bigbasket, Flipkart as well as served as the water of choice by the top star hotels in India.

About International Water Tasting Competition

China (Guangzhou) International High-end Drinking Water Industry Expo (WaterExpo) aims to promote the healthy development of the High-end drinking water industry, to advocate the High-end drinking water culture and to cultivate the High-end drinking water brand in the exchanges and cooperation at home and abroad.

Hence, it’s safe to say that water doesn’t just facilitate life, water improves it.

But did you know that drinking the right kind of water can actually help build your immunity?

As important as it is to drink water and hydrate the body, it is equally important to drink the right kind of water.

That’s why Natural Mineral Water is so essential to the body. Natural Water is enriched with an array of potent minerals and electrolytes that don’t just refresh but also fortify and strengthen. These minerals and electrolytes have been absorbed straight from nature, making them absolutely perfect for the human body.

Natural Mineral Water improves the workings of the digestive system, bolsters brain function, carries nutrients to various parts of the body and also expunges the system of any harmful toxins.

But that’s not all, drinking this water regularly will help increase mineral retention in the body, enabling you to be energetic and active through the day. It also helps prevent common chronic illnesses like arthritis and insomnia.

At the end of the day, Water helps oxygenate the blood, which ensures that each cell performs at maximum capacity. Healthy cells mean that your muscles and organs are functioning at their best, and in turnkeep you feeling as healthy and happy as you can be.

There’s no question that water is nothing short of a miracle, but Natural Mineral Water takes that miracle one step further. An elixir that bolsters the body and fortifies your immunity, that’s what Komin Natural Mineral Water brings to the table.

Add Komin to your life, and see for yourself!

Here are 6 healthy ways you can avoid the lull in the middle of your workday by keeping your energy levels high and your body healthy!

1. Lunch Daily, Lunch Right

Lunch should be early, light and balanced. Junk food is a bad idea because it gets digested more quickly, causing a faster spike and consequent dip in energy. Smaller portions are easier to digest for your body, while overeating puts unnecessary pressure on the digestive system. Also, while it may be easy to forget about lunch on a busy day at work, it is essential for you to eat the right lunch at the right time, so that your health or your performance isn’t hampered.

2. Lunch Workout

Take a little bit of time out of your lunch hour for physical activity or exercise of any kind. You could walk to lunch and back, or even take your lunch to a nearby park, for a quick ‘picnic’ around nature. Even if you don’t have time for a walk outside, you can walk around in the office, do some stretching or even desk exercises, to get your blood and oxygen circulation going.

3. How Do You Sleep?

Your lack of energy during the day could also reflect how well you sleep at night. To function at its full potential, the human body needs at least 8 hours of sleep every night. If you go to bed too late or don’t sleep very well, you can feel the afternoon slump even more, since your body isn’t well-rested and is also experiencing tiredness and fatigue.

4. Energy Boost

Coffee is the go-to fix for people when they’re feeling sleepy at work. It is however, necessary to be careful about the amount of coffee you drink and when you drink it. Experts suggest that if you must have a coffee after lunch, you shouldn’t wait too long. Caffeine from even a late-afternoon cup of coffee can disturb your sleep pattern. If possible, you should go for alternative post-lunch energizing beverages such as smoothies or traditional Indian drinks, made with natural mineral water.

5. Pick-me-up Playlist

Put together a list of your favourite upbeat songs in a post-lunch playlist. You can tune into this playlist on your lunch walk or even as you get back to work after lunch. Listening to music will not only keep you awake and attentive, it’s also been known to help increase productivity at work.

6. Hydration Fix

Dehydration can cause some of the most annoying symptoms that accompany the energy slump, such as headaches, fatigue and irritability. Hydration is the very basis of a healthy lifestyle. Start at the beginning of the day by drinking a glass of natural mineral water, which will not only help you stay hydrated but will also give you essential minerals, salts and electrolytes. Keep a water bottle at your desk and don’t forget to keep drinking from it, throughout the day.

Here are some ways to avoid the dreary afternoon energy slump. Try them out for two weeks and tell us how they worked out for you at hello@kominwater.com

We are also available on all major online stores.

This is great news for you if you wish to start your own food truck. Here are a few things you should really keep in mind before starting out.

1. A Solid Start

Your food truck business can only be as strong as your team is. People choose one food truck over another over the subtlest of differences in the taste profile. Loyal regulars even refuse to eat their favourite comfort foods unless made by their favourite cook at their favourite food truck! If you’re starting a food truck business, you need to build a strong team of people you trust. You should be able to completely rely on everyone onboard, to be able to create a signature taste for your food truck.

2. The Squeaky Clean Truck

To begin with, make sure your truck is in good shape, is insured, and that you have all the other necessary documents, including your license, in order. Also, keep your food truck completely neat and clean. Your customers will appreciate it if you do this and they will surely remember if you don’t! Make sure your food truck’s décor, both inside and out, is warm, inviting and gives the guest an idea of what your food truck is all about.

3. Budgets & Research

It’s easy to lose track of the workings and various unavoidable expenses in the food truck business. In fact, if you don’t keep this aspect completely under your control, there is a real possibility that things might spiral out of control. This is why you need to do extensive research and prepare plans, and most importantly, budgets, before going into business. You also have to ensure that these budgets are never overshot, unless there is a really good reason to do it!

4. Menu

Your menu is the penultimate interaction that guests will have with your food truck. Once they are at your food truck, they would look at your menu and decide what to eat, or even if to eat! Make sure your menu is short, easy-to-navigate and well-designed. Before you put anything on your menu, remember to try it out with a focus group of your trusted friends. And of course, always budget the recipes on your menu before pricing them, to find out if they are financially viable or not.

5. Ingredients

Ingredients are everything. Whether it’s the pao, the peas, or the pasta, make sure you use the freshest, locally sourced, and organic ingredients in your recipes. This not only keeps the quality of your food high, but also pays forward the benefits of your business’ success to the community around you. Over time, this builds you a robust and reliable vendor base, which will stand by you through thick and thin!

6. To Wash it Down

When setting up a gourmet food truck, always round off your menu with a beverage or two. Something as simple as lemonade will do the trick! You also can’t afford to ignore the water. You should always have clean, drinking water available at your food truck. In fact, if you believe in healthy and holistic eating and want something special to go with your gourmet food truck menu, you can go for natural mineral water coming from a pristine source. We recommend Komin Natural Mineral Water, sourced from the ancient aquifers of the mystical Sahyadris.

Here are our favourite classic Indian summer drinks that will keep you hydrated, provide essential vitaminsand minerals, and replenish your electrolytes, all while being lip-smacking!

1. AamPannais made from mangoes, a summer favourite throughout the ages! There are many variations of it across North India, which use either raw or ripe mangoes.

Ingredients:

• 500 grams Green Mangoes
• ½ cup Brown Sugar
• 2 teaspoons Rock Salt
• 2 teaspoons Roasted Cumin
• Mint Leaves
• 2 cups Komin Natural Mineral Water
• Ice Cubes

Recipe:

• Boil the mangoes until they are thoroughly cooked and soft. Let them cool.
• Once cool, peel the mangoes and squeeze out the pulp.
• Blend the mango pulp with all the other ingredients, except the water.
• Top up with 2 cups of Komin Natural Mineral Water.
• Pour over ice and serve!

2. NannariSarbath has its roots in Ayurveda and is one of the most incredible natural coolant. No wonder it is a go-to in the scorching, South Indian summers!

Ingredients:

• 100 grams Nannari roots
• 1 cup Brown Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 2 litres of Komin Natural Mineral Water
• Lemon Juice
• Ice Cubes

Recipe:

• Remove the inner stalk from the Nannari root, using a hammer. Throw away the stalks.
• Wash the bark of the root thoroughly, to remove all the dirt.
• Grind the roots to make a paste.
• Cook the root with sugar, salt, and Komin Natural Mineral Water for 8 minutes, over a medium flame, in a pressure cooker.
• Once the pressure is released, strain the mixture into a saucepan and reduce it to a thick syrup.
• Once it cools, pour 3 tablespoons of the Nannari Syrup into a glass with ice cubes.
• Squeeze half a lemon on it and top it up with Komin Natural Mineral Water.
• Stir and enjoy!
• You can store the concentrated syrup in the fridge for up to a month!

3. Jal Jeerais not only a refreshing drink that keeps you hydrated in the hot summer days, it’s also a one of the most popular non-alcoholic digestifs from the Indian kitchen.

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons Cumin Seeds
• 1 cup Mint and Coriander Leaves
• 6 tablespoons Lemon Juice
• 3-inch piece of Ginger
• 4 tablespoons Brown Sugar
• Pinch of Asafoetida
• 2 tablespoon Tamarind Paste
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 2 litres of Komin Natural Mineral Water
• Ice Cubes

Recipe:

• Wash and finely chop the mint and coriander leaves.
• Blend together all the ingredients except water and ice.
• Add half the water to the paste and blend again.
• Strain the mixture into glasses with ice cubes.
• Top up with the remaining Komin Natural Mineral Water.
• Stir and serve!

4. Lassi, a North Indian summer staple, is a sweet, delightful yogurt drink, native to Punjab, and popular all over the world. It’s also super easy to whip up!

Ingredients:

• 1 teaspoon Cardamom Powder
• 2 cups of chilled Curd or Yogurt
• Powdered Sugar, as per taste
• 2 cups of Komin Natural Mineral Water

Recipe:

• Whisk or blend the curd until completely smooth in consistency.
• Add the sugar and Komin Natural Mineral Water to the curd, and blend.
• Once you start getting a layer of froth on top, add the cardamom powder.
• Blend again and serve!

5. Kokum Sharbatis made from a sweet and sour fruit which grow only along the Konkan Coast. This popular summer drink is a great appetizer!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Kokum
• 2 cups Brown Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Cardamom Powder
• 1 teaspoon Roasted Cumin Powder
• A pinch of Rock Salt
• 2 cups of Komin Natural Mineral Water

Recipe:

• Wash and deseed the Kokum fruits.
• Grind the Kokum with a little water to make a paste.
• Strain the Kokum paste and set aside.
• Boil the sugar and Komin Natural Mineral Water, until you have a syrup of medium consistency.
• Let the syrup cool and add the strained Kokum paste.
• Add the cumin and cardamom powders to the concentrate and mix well.
• Put two tablespoons of the Kokum concentrate in a glass.
• Top up with Komin Natural Mineral Water.
• Stir well and serve.

Here are some of our favourite traditional Indian summer drinks you can try making with Komin Natural Mineral Water. Tell us how they turned out at hello@kominwater.com

We are also available on all major online stores.

1. First Impressions

The décor of your restaurant is the first interaction that your guest has with your brand. It’s a big part of the guests’ dining experience. When they take the first glance at your décor, it should give them a sense of what it will be like to dine at your restaurant.

2. Smells Fishy?

The smell is a big part of experiencing food. If you get it right, your restaurant will be associated in the guests’ mind with the smells it houses. Unfortunately, the same is the case if you get it wrong. A foul, musty or ripe smell can be a big turn off for guests! Make sure your restaurant has a crisp, dry and inviting smell that washes over your guests as they come in.

3. Table for Two?

Your service staff, right from the host, to the servers, the bartender, and the busboys, all make an impression on your guest. Make sure you have well-trained, experienced and helpful staff. The human aspect of dining out can bring back your customers again and again, if it hits the right note with them.

4. Comfort is Key

The dining tables and chairs should be stable, sturdy and spacious enough for the guest to enjoy the food in peace and comfort. The table should also be at the right height and setting for the kind of menu you have. Having to constantly mind their elbows can become an annoying interference in their meal.

5. Squeaky Clean

Cleanliness is priority number one! In the food business, a lapse in cleanliness can be not just bad for business, but also bad for the health of your guests. We can’t say this enough! Everything in your restaurant, from the kitchen to the waiting area, should be daily cleaned and sanitised.

6. A King’s Spread

The crockery, cutlery and glassware in your restaurant can make or break the experience of your food. First off, they should be cleaned and sanitised after each use. Moreover, if the dishes and drinks are presented in a way that compliments the menu and most importantly, easy to eat and drink, people can fully concentrate on the food and appreciate it better. The cutlery fitting each item served should be laid out before the food is brought to the table.

Golden Rule: NEVER use plates, bowls or glasses with cracks or chinks!

7. Nature’s Call

The bathroom is a place where the guest will spend the least amount of time and if it’s clean and functional, they would probably not even think about it for a second! If your bathroom is filthy, foul-smelling, or out of order, however, it can hijack the entire experience. Make sure the washrooms in your restaurant are clean, accessible, and don’t have unnecessarily complex signage that has to be decoded!

8. Water, Water, Everywhere

When dining out, guests like to have choices in everything. And it’s only fair they get this choice in the water they’d drink for the evening. Having just one bottled water option in your menu is simply not enough anymore. In fact, leading restaurants of the world have now started having dedicated fine water menus with up to 20 different kinds of water, complete with pairing suggestions featuring items on the food menu. For the forward-thinking restaurateur, it’s important to get on board and expand their horizons on fine waters, before they miss the bus!

Here are four refreshing and delicious recipes for infused water this season.

1. The Tropical Twist

What you need:

• Komin Natural Mineral Water
• 1 orange
• ¼ pineapple
• mint leaves

What to do:

• Cut the fruits and the mint leaves and put them in your favourite pitcher.
• Top up with Komin Natural Mineral Water.
• Kick back your shoes and enjoy!

2. The Currant Splash

What you need:

• Komin Natural Mineral Water
• 2 cups of mixed berries
• mint leaves

What to do:

• Chop up the berries and the mint leaves and fill them in your infuser bottle.
• Top up with Komin Natural Mineral Water.
• Stay hydrated at work all day!

3. The Tangy Fresh

What you need:

• Komin Natural Mineral Water
• 1 orange
• 1 lemon
• mint leaves

What to do:

• Slice the lemon and orange.
• Put the fruits and the mint leaves in your workout water bottle.
• Top up with Komin Natural Mineral Water.
• Stay hydrated while you sweat it out!

4. The Berry Boost

What you need:

• Komin Natural Mineral Water
• 6 cups sliced strawberries
• 4 limes

What to do:

• Slice the lime and put it in a punch bowl.
• Add the strawberries.
• Top up with Komin Natural Mineral Water.
• Keep your Sunday brunch well hydrated!

These are some of our favourite infused water recipes with Komin Natural Mineral Water. Try them out and tell us what you think at hello@kominwater.com

We are also available on all major online stores.

Here are these 7 basics which guests look for in every hotel room.

1. A Smell that Welcomes You In

The moment we enter a room, any room, we are introduced to the smell of the room. This smell gives us the first impression of the room and prepares us for what lies ahead. If the air is heavy, musty, mouldy and reeking of obscene amounts of ‘freshener’ spray, our nose crinkles up in a cringe. If it is the fresh, crisp and mellow smell of light air, we automatically develop a subconscious affinity to the place we’re in.

2. Clean Bed Linens and Furniture

After completing their journey and arriving in their hotel room, people plonk down on their bed or the couch. If the bed linens, sofas or couches are not clean, sanitary, and fresh smelling, it can be immediately off-putting to people and is considered a cardinal sin that is never forgiven or forgotten.

3. No-Compromise Showers

A spic and span bathroom which is regularly cleaned and sanitised is a must. There is no bigger turn off than a foul-smelling bathroom! The showering area should be spacious, with squeaky clean shower curtains that stay out of the way without sticking to the guest’s elbows every time they move around! Mould on the shower curtains can also be not just revolting, but even dangerous!

4. Clean, Fluffy, White Towels

Another non-negotiable factor is clean, large, white towels. A good towel can affect the guest’s stay at a hotel much more that anyone could guess. A clean white towel lets the guest know that the hotel is not trying to ‘hide away’ any stains from them, in coloured or printed towels. After a full day of sight-seeing or business meetings, guests are yearning for a hot shower and a dirty, stale or stained towel can completely ruin the experience. A guest would never revisit a hotel that failed to provide them with clean towels!

5. A Room That’s Just Right!

A room that is too warm or too cold is yet another issue that can become a nagging problem for guests, throughout their stay. Different people have different preferences when it comes to the temperature of their space and the guest should have complete temperature control in their hotel room. Guests find it unacceptable to be stuck in a room that doesn’t have a fully functioning and easy-to-use thermostat system.

6. A Silent and Sturdy Bed

Beds that are either hard like stone or so soft that they are unstable are a pet peeve for many. Some beds are so fluffy that the guest is jolted awake every time they shift a leg in their sleep! Whereas others are so hard that guests need to bring along their own sleeping bags to line them. Again, there are different preferences when it comes to the structural integrity of their bed. Ideally, a hotel should have two kinds of mattresses, one which is soft yet sturdy and another which is a harder orthopaedic mattress.

7. No Scavenger Hunts for Drinking Water

Drinking water is another undeniable basic that every guest seeks from their hotel room. Apart from two complimentary water bottles, per guest, per room, a reliable brand of bottled water should also be available to order through room service, at all hours. While any reputed brand will do the job, guests will appreciate it even more if the water available is not only premium, but also naturally enriched with essential salts and electrolytes, such as Komin Natural Mineral Water.

An aquifer is defined as an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials such as gravel, sand, or silt, or in the case of Komin, pristine volcanic rock. This means that it is a pocket of water, hidden beneath the surface of the Earth, following years of organic filtration and enrichment through layers of natural substances.

As per hydrogeology (the study of water flow in aquifers and the characterisation of aquifers), there are numerous different kinds of aquifers, such as saturated aquifers and unsaturated aquifers. The Earth’s surface has varying amounts of water, underground, at almost every location on the earth’s surface. Therefore, the Earth’s crust can be divided into two sections, the first being unsaturated zones, where there are pockets of both, air and water fill most of the spaces left empty by rocks and other natural materials. The second section is called saturated zones where naturally purified water occupies all the empty space available. It is saturated zones, that are mostly bored to extract water for human consumption.

The aquifers that are home to Komin Natural Mineral Water are volcanic-rock saturated aquifer. Volcanic rocks are rocks that are united in origin but can have a wide variety of chemical, structural, mineralogical and hydraulic properties. This is due to the variations in the type of rock, and the pattern in which the lava was ejected and deposited at the time when the volcano erupted! Some volcanic rock, for example, is highly permeable and allows rain water to pass through, unfettered, some can only let it pass through fractures or cracks in it, while some are absolutely impenetrable by water.

The aquifers that Komin is sourced from are a section of the Earth’s crust that is mostly made up of volcanic Basalt rock. Basalt is unique in its structure and composition, since it forms in linear columns, when magnesium rich and iron rich lava erupts out of volcanoes. It is a fine-grained rock and its name comes from the Latin translation of ‘very hard rock’.

Basalt is considered to be the best volcanic rock for natural mineral water aquifers because it allows water to flow vertically through itself, deeper and deeper into the ground. This is because Basalt tends to have ‘pore spaces’ and is conducive to the creation of a saturated aquifer, due to basaltic lava’s highly fluid nature and its fine line of flow during the process of rock formation. It is also layered quite finely and intricately because while forming, these lava flows frequently overlap. Often, the empty spaces created by this overlapping rock structure are filled by soil, making the water filtration process even more rigorous.

And this is how this unique elixir of life is nurtured by these mighty rocks, infused with essential minerals and salts, and prepared for your consumption over centuries and centuries of nature’s careful nurturing. All we at Komin do is, bring this natural mineral water right from these incredible ancient aquifers of the mystical Sahyadris right to your favourite supermarket or e-store!

Let’s begin with stating a fact: all water isn’t the same. Water isn’t even just water. Depending on where your water comes from, it has differing amounts of minerals and salts dissolved in it, it has differing pH values, differing nature, differing levels of purity and of course, differing taste profiles!

Water sommeliers are water experts who taste and profile water, based on its region and depth of origin or its ‘terroir’, the composition and amount of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and as a result the taste it has. TDS levels can be as low as 40 (Norway) to 7400 (Slovenia)! The taste of water has quite an impact on everything we eat or drink. It affects the taste of the food that is cooked in it, the cocktails that are made with it, and even affects the results of wine and beer production! Wine sommeliers study all this and more.

A fairly new and upcoming field of study and practice, water tasting is fast gaining traction all over the world. Martin Riese, Jessica Altieri and John Zhu are some of the world’s leading water sommeliers. A few years ago, Riese painstakingly developed a 44-page water menu, listing 20 different kinds of water, along with food and cocktail pairings!

Today, there are opportunities out there to learn more about water for all those interested. Organisations such as Fine Water Academy, Doemens Academy and Purelogica Academy offer both online and physical certification courses where you can discover the multitude of nuances that every glass of water holds. The already established water sommeliers of the world also have their own workshops where they help you explore and understand the wide variety of water.

Now, scepticism is not only expected, but it’s also healthy. In fact, Riese, the first water sommelier in the world, says that people who attend his water tasting workshops are often sceptical to start off as well. As the workshops progress, however, and as his evaluation is supported by each sample of water they taste, they are more open to the wonders of the water world.

So, try and taste as many different waters as you can, and pick your favourite! In case you’re a stickler for doing things the proper way, enrol in an online water sommelier course today!