To start, it should be noted that it’s not just Diet Coke and Mentos that “react”; other carbonated beverages will also readily respond to the addition of Mentos. What’s going on here is that Mentos has thousands of small pores on its surface disrupting the polar attractions between th...
Well, not quite. While Caffeine Free-Diet Coke worked just as well as the more common, caffeinated version, regular Coke didn’t do as well. And Mentos, it turns out, are the near-perfect mint option. Why? Two reasons. First, the surface tension of the liquid matters — the lower the...
Root beer continued to be marketed as a “health beverage” with the slogan, “Join Health and Cheer, Drink Hires Root Beer!” Funny enough, in 1960 the United States Food and Drug Administration banned the main ingredient—oil from the sassafras root—because of research proving it was a c...
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