If you have a sweet tooth, but you need to hold back on the sugar, artificial sweeteners sound like a great option. With diet sodas, sugar-free gum, and other artificially sweetened foods readily available, you’d think you’re doing your teeth a favor by opting for them over their suga...
Researchers first took the common low-calorie sweetener sucralose — you know it as Splenda — and placed roughly the amount of sucralose from four cans of diet soda on stem cells from human fat tissue. The cells were placed in a petri dish for 12 days, and the results weren't all that...
As to why diet sodas like Diet Coke produce such a bigger reaction, it’s because aspartame lowers the surface tension of the liquid much more than sugar or corn syrup will. You can also increase the effect by adding more surfactants to the soda before you add the Mentos, like adding a ...