Quooker - how important/effective is a Scale Control Filter?

EnPointe

silvercar said:

As an alternative, we fitted a water softener and then didn’t see the need for a filter on the quooker.

except the output  Salt based softeners is not necessarily  potable water  and the harder the water the more likely it is to have excessive sodium levels  

silvercar

EnPointe said:

silvercar said:

As an alternative, we fitted a water softener and then didn’t see the need for a filter on the quooker.

except the output  Salt based softeners is not necessarily  potable water  and the harder the water the more likely it is to have excessive sodium levels  

General advice, including from the NHS, is that softened water is safe to drink for most people.  The sodium gained from one glass of softened water is around 1% of the recommended daily limit. There are also views that drinking softened then reverse osmosis filtered water removes some essential minerals as well as the sodium. So the choice is between keeping your drinking water separate and having a quooker filter if necessary or putting up with the small sodium intake in softened water or the lack of minerals in RO filtered water.