Sharon asks…
mentos and soda…..random?
ok i was wondering wat would happen if u ate mentos and then drandk some diet coke my friend did and all she did was puke, i was wondering if you drank a whole bunch of diet coke and ate a bunch of mentos would ur stomach explode or would u just puke ALOT!!
eric answers:
Please. That would have about the same effect as pop rocks and soda, nothing! Your friend puked because she consumed something way too sweet it would happen to anyone. Will it damage anything? No.
Robert asks…
Can this kill you??!??!?
Eating mentos then drinking soda….!?!?!? i heard it did and im so scared i might die accidentally someday!? ahhh
eric answers:
MEntos and diet coke. Most people will not swallow that many mentos and drink that much diet coke in one sitting though.
Helen asks…
does this sound like a good experiment? also have a question. 10 pts best answer opinions pleaseee?
i have to design a controlled experiment for gen. biology and i thought of this becaues it seemed interesting. well a little boyhat happ not too long ago died in brazil from eating mentos and drinking soda together. idk why it happens but if you take a 2liter of coke and drop mentos in it, it will erupt or burst and shoot out from the bottle reallly high & guess it causes a strong reaction and the same exact thing happens inside your stomach if you mix the two so i performed this experiement. now i have to gather my results and create some type of chart, any kind, but idk what kind of chart or what i would put on it with this kind of experiment. any suggestions?
eric answers:
First, the death of anyone due to a Mentos & soda event is a hoax, look it up at Snopes. And they have the wrong reason for the geyser (they quoted but did not listen to a science teacher). The geyser is formed because the outside of the candy is covered with microscopic pits and cracks, called nucleation sites. Has nothing to do with changing surface tension.
My suggestion below is more for Physics and Chemistry. The second answer (Former MN Teacher) is more appropriate because my response is not really a biology project. Except that there are lakes in Africa that periodically explode, suffocating nearby villages. Thought to be the same thing, excessive dissolved CO2 that is suddenly released. Called Limnic eruption. So maybe you can tie in mentos and limnic effects, and it becomes a biology experiement.
Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnic_eruption
Got one for you. Instead of Mentos, use dry sand. At small amounts it should be proportional to dose, and you can probably use regular 16 oz bottles (use cheap sodas, but fresh). Use multiple teaspoons or some other measure (weight?) as the concentration or dose on the x-axis, and the height of the geyser or the amount of liquid ejected (catch it in a pail) and measured in a cup as the y-axis. The temperature of the soda is also important – room temperature soda is much more explosive than cold because more gas is available (the gas is less soluble at warmer temperatures). That could be a variable – too. Could be as much as double.
Actually if you were making very fine measurements a stormy day (rather than a cloudless day having a high barometric pressure) would also result in more liquid ejected because atmospheric pressure is lower and more gas will be released – I don’t know if this difference will be measurable in this experiment (maybe 3% to 6%).
You could become the expert at your science fair.
At some point the ejection volume (nice term to use) will level out because the flow rate will be too high or limited Carbon Dioxide in the soda. Try it on one bottle before you buy a case.
I haven’t tried this but it should work and it is scientific if the dose is controlled and the ejection volume measured.
Good Luck.
Laura asks…
Why did my stomach hurt after I ate 2 mentos (NO coke!)?
I haven’t drank any soda in days, but after I had 2 mentos my stomach hurt (alot) After I “ejected” a lot of stuff… (via pooping 
) I felt better. For dinner that night I had meatloaf and mashed potatoes… So what the heck?? Thanks in advance! (PS) I had more mentos today as a test and I felt fine.
eric answers:
I dunno for shore. Maybee tummy virus. Keep handszees washed! Specially afto shoppphing. Good loch!
Donna asks…
Pigeon Mentos & Coke?
Is it possible for a pigeon to explode if it eats a Mentos®?™? (<- 
) and possibly drank Coke®™?? or an other soda to explode?
The Mentos®?™ can be filled with Soda.
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eric answers:
No it isn’t possible.
Donald asks…
This witchy, popular chick is so annoying! Should we feed her Diet Coke and Mentos? Would she puke? Die? Etc?
There is this popular chick I go to school with. She is really pretty but she is also really MEAN and nasty, stuck up and brags all the time. My friends and I really hate her and so do a lot of people. She looks like a Barbie doll and it she was cool that would be one thing BUT SHE’S NOT! She’s a real witch, trust me!
She’s always bragging how she stays skinny and eats candy and soda all day long. She drinks Coke every day and someone had a GREAT idea: Swap out her regular coke for diet, wait until she drinks it, then give her a Mentos candy! PERFECT!
For those who don’t know, when you mix diet Coke and Mentos it can make it FIZZ and it can shoot out of the bottle in a 6 foot stream. No joke!
I saw some videos on YouTube of people who ate them together and it basically caused projectile vomiting and maybe some pain. I was wondering if this is dangerous? Could it kill someone or rupture their stomach? Has anyone ever heard of anything super-horrible happening?
It would be HILARIOUS to get this girl where it hurts. She’d be MEGA embarrassed if she puked at lunch. I DON’T want to harm, injure or kill someone though! Is this safe? Has anyone tried this? Does anyone know of any other good pranks for settling a score?
Oh yeah…PLEASE don’t feel bad for this chick….TRUST ME when I say she is totally evil and deserves it!
eric answers:
We all grow up with these type kids and others. It only makes us improve on ourselves and become better people as we age. Revenge or payback is a childish and immature action. Get over it and get used to it. When you attend your twenty year reunion and she is 250 pounds and divorced three times that will be the payback.
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