When the salt gets is added to the coke, it changes the balance of the its chemistry and forces the release of carbon dioxide bubbles. This occurs because the salt overpowers the carbon dioxide and replaces it in the soda. Depending on the bottle, the soda tends to shoot up and out like a fountain.

You can substitute another candy for the Mentos, such as M&Ms or Skittles, but ideally, you want candies that stack into a neat column with minimal space between them, have a chalky consistency, and barely fit through the mouth of a 2-liter bottle.

Diet Coke and Mentos eruption

• A Diet Coke and Mentos Eruption (also known as a soda geyser) is a reaction between the carbonated beverage Diet Coke and Mentos mints that causes the beverage to be expelled from its container.
• In the 1910s, Wint-O-Green Life Savers were used to create soda geysers.

When salt is poured into the soda bottle, the carbon dioxide gas bubbles cling onto the surface of the tiny salt crystals. As more carbon dioxide gas accumulates around the crystals, the gas becomes more buoyant. It then rushes out of the bottle forcing all the soda in its way to rise as well.

“Carbonation can help to reduce the total acidity of the stomach, which may help the nausea dissipate,” Dr. Szarka says. Because many people associate sweet flavors with contentment, a soda might further help bring that queasy feeling under control.

Fizzy drinks and sodas don’t have much success in relieving an upset stomach, but the air bubbles or real ginger can help the GI tract in its digestion a little bit.

When you added sugar or salt to soda, the CO2 in each cup latched onto the tiny bumps on the sugar or salt grains. Those tiny bumps, called nucleation sites, give the CO2 something to hold onto in the soda as it forms bubbles and escapes.

If they’re mixed in equal parts, the sweetness of the Pepsi overrides the more citrusy taste of the Coke, in my opinion. Nothing more than that. (They don’t cause an explosive reaction or anything like that, if you were wondering…)

Keeping it in your diet in moderation, meaning no more than 12 ounces daily in one week. You can build it in your diet. (However), cola is considered non-nutritious beverage.

Swapping one soda a day will help you have fewer cravings for junk food. Feeling better doesn’t stop at drinking less sugar. Since you’ll be consuming less caffeine, you will sleep better and will have a more balanced energy level throughout the day too.

11 Best Sugar-Free Sodas on Grocery Store Shelves

• Zevia Zero Calorie Soda, Cola.
• Virgil’s Zero Sugar Root Beer.
• Reed’s Zero Sugar Real Ginger Ale.
• Bubly Sparkling Water, Cherry.
• Spindrift Lemon Sparkling Water.
• Poland Spring Sparkling Water, Lemon Lime.
• LaCroix.
• Perrier.

A 20-ounce serving of Gatorade’s Thirst Quencher contains 36 grams of sugar. While that’s a bit less sugar per ounce than your average soda, it’s not exactly healthy. In fact, Berkeley researchers say the sugar in sports drinks may be contributing to the child obesity epidemic by increasing caloric intake.

Drinking more than 2 sodas per day can increase your risk of dying, study finds. (WTNH) — According to a new study, those who drink more than two glasses of soda or any soft drink per day have a high risk of dying.

Even that amount — even if it is a diet soda — can hurt your health. An American Diabetes Association study reported that consuming one or more sodas per day compared to none at all increased the risk of metabolic syndrome by 36% and type 2 diabetes by 67%.

Cola is the clear winner. The main difference is that Coke has caffeine. Caffeine, of course, has stimulant and diuretic properties; but your body will quickly adjust to negate these. Sprite may contain more sodium (according to one source).