Among the 7 indicators proposed by the national standard, 5100 has a total of lithium, strontium and metasilicic acid three higher than the standard, which is a very rare high-quality compound mineral water, which has won the 10th World Best Mineral Water Award, and is frequently used in international and national conferences and competitions.
 
The 5100 Tibetan Ice Spring comes from the original glacial self-gushing spring at an altitude of 5100 meters above sea level in the Nianqing Tanggula Mountains in Tibet, which belongs to the Gangdisi-Nianqing Tanggula tectonic magmatic rock belt, and the self-gushing spring is fed by atmospheric precipitation and alpine ice and snow meltwater, and is circulated and filtered by underground rock formations for many years, and the mineral content in the water is high, especially lithium.
 
Due to the difficulty of lithium enrichment in groundwater, lithium-type mineral water is the most scarce on the market. According to the test results of Consumer Reports, the lithium content of 5100 is 0.63mg/L, which is three times the 0.2mg/L stipulated by the Chinese national standard. However, the taste performance of 5100 mineral water is average, its total calcium and potassium content is not as high as magnesium content, and there are more sulfates, and the taste is astringent.
 
5100 mineral water has two classic blue bottles and diamond bottles, the bottles are made of imported PET plastic, the diamond bottle body has a diamond cut form, the aesthetics are slightly higher, but the price is twice as high as the classic blue bottle, the classic blue bottle 330ml and 500ml are sold for about 4.5 and 6.5 yuan respectively, referring to its mineral content, the cost performance is not low.
 
From the completion of the first production line in 2006 to July 2015, 5100 was active in front of passengers as a high-speed rail gift, but due to the damage to its reputation after the supply interruption of China Railway, a large amount of mineral water has also lost its market. It also likes to exaggerate in its marketing strategy, and the heavily advertised low-deuterium water, small molecule water and weakly alkaline water have all been proven to be pseudo-health concepts, and the State Food and Drug Administration has banned the labeling of "small molecule (group) water" as a product name.