Gerolsteiner Brunnen GmbH & Co. KG (
Gerolsteiner) is a leading
German mineral water firm with its seat in
Gerolstein in the
Eifel mountains. It is well known for its Gerolsteiner Sprudel
brand, a
bottled, naturally
carbonated mineral water. This
water, in addition to
hydrogen and
oxygen (H
2O) and
carbon (in the
carbon dioxide (CO
2) carbonation), contains at least the following
chemical elements in amounts of 100 or more
micrograms per
liter:
bromine,
calcium,
chlorine,
fluorine,
lithium,
magnesium,
manganese,
nitrogen,
potassium,
silicon,
sodium,
strontium, and
sulfur. The strontium is naturally occurring, not the
radioactive strontium-90. Gerolsteiner was also the chief sponsor of a cycling team,
Team Gerolsteiner.