Abstract
For women students, the consciousness of the mineral water and other beverages were investigated by a questionnaire survey, and the discrimination of taste quality of mineral water was examined by the sensory evaluation. For the supply of water, the frequency of intake of the mineral water was lower than those of intake of tea and then was higher at after taking a bath and at doing exercises according to the questionnaire survey. From the results of questionnaire survey, the components of mineral water were not almost taken into consideration at drinking of mineral water. However, except for the difference of taste quality between a softened water and an alkali ionic water, panelist was significantly able to distinguish the differences of taste quality of water as the result of sensory evalution.
