Real Foods and Drinks That Start with ‘Aq’

1. Why “aq” foods are rare (and interesting)

In English, very few common words begin with the letters aq. That makes “foods starting with aq” an unusually constrained search space.

Most of what does exist falls into a few buckets:

• Ingredients and spirits: aquafaba, aquavit.

• Packaged waters and sports drinks: Aquafina, Aquarius, AQUA, Aquabelle, Aquatone, Aqua Carpatica, and more.

• Fermented or cultured beverages: Aqua ViTea kombucha, Aqua Seltzer, GTS Aqua Kefir, Aqua Rapha yogurt.

• Cocktails and beers: Aquamarine cocktails, Aquanaut beers and hop water.

• A handful of items linked to botanical or Latin names: for example, Aquilaria in agarwood tea.

What follows is a consolidated, evidence-backed list of real foods and beverages that begin with aq or use the specific aq… words you provided as part of their name.

2. Core “aq” food and drink terms

2.1 Aquafaba – the key vegan “egg white” ingredient

Aquafaba is the viscous cooking liquid from chickpeas and other legumes. When whipped, it behaves similarly to egg whites because dissolved proteins, sugars, and saponins foam and stabilize air bubbles.

It is widely used as a plant-based egg replacer in recipes like:

• Aquafaba meringues

• Aquafaba marshmallows

• Aquafaba chocolate mousse

• Aquafaba mayonnaise

• Aquafaba buttercream or frosting

• Aquafaba pavlova, macarons, nougat, marshmallow fluff, brownies, cupcakes, and muffins

In many cookbooks, blogs, and product names, the dish name literally starts with “Aquafaba …” (for example, “Aquafaba Chocolate Mousse”), so these dishes qualify as “foods starting with aq.”

2.2 Aquavit / Akvavit – a Scandinavian spirit

Aquavit (also spelled akvavit) is a distilled spirit from Scandinavia, made from grain or potatoes and flavored primarily with caraway and/or dill.

Regulations in the European Union (European Union) specify that aquavit must be flavored predominantly with a caraway or dill distillate, and it is typically about 40 percent alcohol by volume (ABV, alcohol by volume).

Examples of food or drink names starting with “Aquavit …”:

• Aquavit Sour (sour-style cocktail).

• Aquavit Martini.

• Aquavit Bloody Mary.

Menus and product pages routinely list these as named drinks, so they are valid “aq” beverages.

3. Big commercial drinks beginning with “Aqua…” / “Aqu…”

3.1 Bottled waters and sports drinks

These come directly from brands where the official product name begins with Aqu… or Aqua….

1. Aquafina – bottled water

   • A purified bottled water brand owned by PepsiCo, originally launched in the United States in the 1990s and now distributed worldwide.

2. Aquarius – sports drink

   • A Japanese sports drink brand manufactured by The Coca-Cola Company, marketed as an electrolyte and mineral beverage and sold in ready-to-drink bottles and powdered form.

3. AQUA – Indonesian bottled water

   • A major bottled drinking water brand in Indonesia (Danone AQUA), founded in 1973 and now one of Danone’s largest water brands globally.

4. AQUA Carpatica – Romanian mineral water

   • Still and naturally sparkling mineral water sourced from springs in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, sold internationally under the AQUA Carpatica brand.

5. Aquabelle – bottled mineral water

   • “Eau Minérale – AQUABELLE – 1.5 litre” is a bottled natural mineral water product, categorized as spring or mineral water.

6. Aquatone – packaged drinking water

   • “Aquatone Packaged Drinking Water” in Hyderabad, India, is a branded mineral water supplier for events and functions, selling packaged drinking water products.

7. Aquatone – historical medicinal beverage

   • Historical accounts of Saratoga hot springs describe mineral water bottled and sold as a medicinal beverage under the brand name Aquatone.

8. Aqua Rapha Drinking Water

   • Aqua Rapha Investment Nigeria Limited produces Aqua Rapha Drinking Water in sachets and bottles (50 centilitre, 75 centilitre, 1.5 litre) as a branded packaged water.

These are all direct matches where the name of the consumable product begins with “Aqua…” or “Aqu…”.

3.2 Fermented, cultured, and flavored drinks starting with “Aqua…”

Several brands from your word list or related “Aqua…” terms show up as fermented or cultured beverages.

1. Aqua ViTea Kombucha

   • Aqua ViTea is a kombucha brand producing various fermented tea beverages.

2. Aqua Seltzer (by Aqua ViTea)

   • A line of probiotic seltzers combining kombucha cultures with sparkling water, sold as “Aqua Seltzer”.

3. GTS Aqua Kefir

   • A flavored water-kefir drink marketed as Aqua Kefir, produced by GTS, positioned as a probiotic, fruit-flavored fermented beverage.

4. Meiji Aqua Bulgaria yogurt drink

   • A Japanese lactic soft drink branded “Aqua Bulgaria,” with flavor and marketing based on Bulgarian yogurt.

5. Aqua Rapha Yogurt

   • Aqua Rapha also markets low-sugar yogurt and drinking yogurt products under the Aqua Rapha brand, described as made with “real food and ingredients, including fresh fruit.”

These again are products where “Aqua …” is part of the consumable item's name, with some of them having optional words that could be left out before the word that starts with 'Aq' (e.g. GTS Aqua Kefir → Aqua Kefir)

4. Cocktails and beers beginning with “Aqua…” or “Aqu…”

4.1 Aquamarine cocktails

Aquamarine is a cocktail name used in multiple bar and recipe sources. Example formulations include blue curaçao, gin, amaretto, pineapple juice, lime juice, and soda water, all served as a mixed drink.

Because the drink is explicitly titled “Aquamarine,” this is a clear case of a drink name starting with “Aqua…”.

4.2 Aquanaut beers and hop water

"Aquanaut" and "Aquanauts" have appearances in food and beverage branding:

1. Aquanaut Brewing Company beers

   • Aquanaut Brewing Company (Chicago) is a craft brewery producing various beers; menus and beer directories list them under the Aquanaut name.

2. Aquanaut – non-alcoholic hop water

   • New Holland Brewing also produces “Aquanaut,” a non-alcoholic carbonated hop water sold as a beverage in cans and at their brewpub.

These products’ names start with “Aquanaut,” so they qualify as aq… beverages for your purposes.

5. Foods and drinks linked to Aquilaria (trees)

Aquilaria is a genus of trees that produce agarwood. This is used to create specific tea products.

• Agarwood tea (Aquilaria leaf tea)

  • Agarwood tea is an herbal infusion made from the leaves of Aquilaria species, especially Aquilaria crassna and Aquilaria sinensis.

  • Commercial descriptions often emphasize that the tea uses leaves of Aquilaria and market it as a herbal drink with digestive and calming properties.

The consumer-facing name here is usually “Agarwood tea,” but the packaging and scientific descriptions reference Aquilaria explicitly, so if you are matching on the word list, “Aquilaria → agarwood tea” is the main food connection.

6. Genuine foods or beverages starting with 'Aq'

6.1 Direct food or beverage brands

• aqua

  • Appears in many of the brand names above: AQUA (Indonesia), Aquafina, Aquarius, AQUA Carpatica, Aqua Rapha, Aqua ViTea, Aqua Seltzer, etc.

• aquabelle / aquabelles

  • Used in “Eau Minérale – AQUABELLE – 1.5 litre,” a bottled mineral water product.

• aquafaba

  • Legume cooking liquid used as an egg white substitute in foods like aquafaba meringue, mayonnaise, and chocolate mousse.

• aquamarine / aquamarines

  • Appears as the name of cocktails such as the Aquamarine mixed drink (blue curaçao, gin, etc.).

• aquanaut / aquanauts

  • Used in Aquanaut Brewing Company beers and in Aquanaut branded non-alcoholic hop water.

• aquavit / aquavits

  • Scandinavian spirit (akvavit) used straight and in cocktails such as Aquavit Sour or Aquavit Martini.

• Aquarius / Aquariuses

  • Sports drink brand by Coca-Cola, including ready-to-drink bottles and powder sachets.

• aquas (plural)

  • Not a brand itself, but in food contexts it usually refers to the various “Aqua …” water brands listed above.

• aquatone / aquatones

  • Appears as Aquatone Packaged Drinking Water, a mineral/packaged water supplier and product line; historically also as Aquatone bottled medicinal beverage from Saratoga hot springs.

• Aqua Rapha (not in your list but implied by “aqua…”)

  • Aqua Rapha Drinking Water and Aqua Rapha Yoghurt are branded consumables.

6.2 Words that connect to foods indirectly

These terms are not themselves consumer product names, but they are food-adjacent:

• aquaculture / aquacultural / aquacultures / aquaculturist(s)

  • Aquaculture is aquatic farming of fish and shellfish (for example, salmon, shrimp). It refers to the production system, not a specific food name.

• aquaponics

  • Coupled fish and plant culture systems; again, a method, not a food name, though it produces vegetables and fish.

• aquardiente / aquardientes

  • A spelling variant of aguardiente, a clear fruit- or sugarcane-based spirit consumed in places like Colombia, California historically, and elsewhere.

• Aquilaria

  • Botanical genus whose leaves are used to make agarwood tea, a herbal drink. Packaging and literature often refer explicitly to Aquilaria leaf tea.

These are useful if you are extending into food systems or botanical names, but they are not usually the first word of an everyday food name.

7. Summary: consolidated “aq” food and drink list

For quick reference, here is a compact checklist of the “aq…” foods and beverages:

• Ingredients / spirits

  • Aquafaba (plus any dish literally named “Aquafaba …”).

  • Aquavit (Akvavit) and Aquavit-named cocktails.

• Waters and sports drinks

  • Aquafina (bottled water).

  • Aquarius (sports drink, liquid and powder).

  • AQUA (Indonesia) bottled water.

  • AQUA Carpatica (mineral water).

  • Aquabelle (mineral water).

  • Aquatone (modern packaged drinking water; historical medicinal mineral beverage).

  • Aqua Rapha Drinking Water.

• Fermented / cultured drinks

  • Aqua ViTea kombucha.

  • Aqua Seltzer (kombucha-infused seltzer).

  • GTS Aqua Kefir.

  • Meiji Aqua Bulgaria yogurt drink.

  • Aqua Rapha Yogurt (drinking yogurts and related products).

• Cocktails and beers

  • Aquamarine cocktails.

  • Aquanaut Brewing Company beers.

  • Aquanaut non-alcoholic hop water.

• Botanical beverages

  • Agarwood tea (Aquilaria leaf tea).

• Related systems / terms (not product names but food-linked)

  • Aquaculture / aquaponics (food production systems).

  • Aquardiente / aguardiente (spirit; spelling variant begins with aqu in some sources).