Ingredients For Diet Coke And Mentos

Preservatives prevent spoilage due to yeasts bacteria fungi and molds.

Ingredients for diet coke and mentos. Bottles of diet coke. Assorted candies including m ms fruit mentos pixy sticks generic mints and other hard candies. 1 cold bottle of 12 oz diet coke.

They also prevent flavor and color changes and maintain the beverage s freshness. What happens when you add other ingredients to the soda. 1 12oz bottle of regular coke.

It just won t be nearly as awesome a tube the width of the mentos. Slowly and carefully open a new bottle of diet coke. Materials per group plus one 2 litter bottle of diet coke for demonstration.

Place it on a flat area outside where it is ok to get wet with soda. Dropping mentos into a bottle of diet soda causes a physical reaction. It needs to be wide enough to use as loader for the mentos.

The citric acid phosphoric acid and potassium benzoate in diet coke serve as preservatives. As they fall through the soda the mentos candies break the bonds between the carbon dioxide and water the combination that makes soda fizzy releasing the carbon dioxide gas up and out of the bottle. Compare the results of fruit flavored and mint flavored mentos.

Put the open end of your tube of mentos on the card and place it directly over the opening of the soda bottle. A two liter bottle of diet soda diet soda makes for a much better reaction but you can use regular soda if you like. Half sleeve of mentos.