You can drink mints and cola, because when you put mints in your mouth, the surface of mints will be destroyed immediately by chewing and saliva, so carbonated drinks will not produce a lot of foam when they meet carbon dioxide. Therefore, mints and cola are unlikely to cause poisoning to the human body, but eating cola and mints together will cause gastrointestinal discomfort, so it is recommended that you do not eat mints and cola together at ordinary times to avoid unnecessary harm to the human body.
Why does coke explode when it meets mints?
The main reaction between mints and cola is a kind of mints called mentos. This mint is loose in appearance and easy to absorb water, and the additive contains hydrochloric acid. When it meets the carbon dioxide in all carbonated drinks such as Coca-Cola, it will soak and produce a lot of foam, which is the reason why Coke is ejected from the bottle, but it is not an explosion, just because of the gas pressure.
Expanding knowledge: the experiment of adding mints to cola
1, 600 ml of cola +2 tablets of mentos.
First, open a 600 ml bottle of Coca-Cola, and then quickly put in two "Mantos" sweets. After two or three seconds, bubbles quickly appeared in the coke bottle and spewed out, but the spewing intensity was not great. The height of "Coke Column" is only about 1 cm, which is not as violent as online information. After about two or three minutes, the reaction is over, and there are two-thirds of coke left in the bottle.
2, 600 ml of cola +2 mentos sugar, cover to increase pressure.
In order to make the online "coke column" spray to tens of centimeters high, Bian Xiao added a cover in the reaction process to allow the pressure to accumulate and then release it in a centralized way, which may be successful. This experiment is still a bottle of 600 ml coke and two glasses of mentos. The experiment found that after mentos sugar was put into coke, it was too late to screw on the lid, and coke had been sprayed everywhere.
3, 2 liters of large bottles of coke +2 mentos sugar.
Is it because there is not enough coke and the reaction is not intense? Bian Xiao bought 2 liters of cola for the experiment. In order to make it fully react, she crushed 2 mentos and put them in the cola. The result was unexpected and the response was very weak. Coke foam overflows rather than spouts, and there is almost no "coke column", so there is little loss of coke in the bottle.
4. 1.25 liter medium bottle of coke+14 mantos.
After consulting the information on the internet, Bian Xiao thinks that the reason why there is no high "coke column" may be that mentos sugar is added too little. So according to the standard practice provided on the Internet, the whole package of *** 14 mentos candy was quickly added to the 1.25 liter medium bottle of coke, and a paper cup was immediately covered. Coke reacted quickly, but it didn't push the paper cup up like the internet said, but it overflowed from under the paper cup. Seeing this scene, Bian Xiao quickly took off the paper cup and found that the reaction was more intense than the previous experiment, but only a "coke column" about 1 cm high was formed, but more bubbles were ejected and the speed was faster. After the reaction, half of the coke is left.
5. Baking soda+Coke/Wang Zi steamed bread+Coke
Bian Xiao learned from the Internet that it is not the patent of Mentos Sugar that can make cola "boiling". In order to verify the reaction between other substitutes and cola, Bian Xiao experimented with two kinds-baking soda and Wang Zi steamed bread. Firstly, a spoonful of baking soda powder was added to a bottle of 600 ml Coca-Cola, and it was found that the reaction happened quickly and fiercely. The bottle of Coca-Cola spouts a "Coke Column" with a height of about 89 cm, which is much better than using mentos sugar.
Then Bian Xiao added more than a dozen Wang Zi steamed buns to another bottle of 600 ml coke, and found that Wang Zi steamed buns could also make coke foam, and the duration was slightly longer than that of Mentos candy. It is only accurate to say that the coke bubbles are not ejected but dripped out, and no "coke column" is formed.
6, the mouth contains cola+mentos sugar
Can the above reaction of mentos sugar and cola also happen in human body? Bian Xiao experienced it first hand. First put three mantos in your mouth, then take a sip of the newly opened coke, and sip it in your mouth but don't swallow it. After a few seconds, I found that there were more and more bubbles in my mouth, and the oral wall felt obvious pressure, but it was not enough. There is no feeling of taking a sip of coke without mentos in your mouth.
Experimental conclusion:
Bian Xiao and another volunteer drank a mouthful of 14 mentos candy and the liquid left after the reaction with cola, which tasted the same as the stale cola. But after a few minutes, both of them obviously felt abdominal distension, and after about half an hour, the feeling of abdominal distension disappeared.
After the experiment, Bian Xiao came to the conclusion that "Mentos" mints did react with cola, producing a lot of bubbles and gases, but the experimental effect made by Bian Xiao was not as dramatic as the online report.
Bian Xiao found that "Mentos" mints can not only trigger the spitting reaction of cola, but also trigger the spitting reaction of other carbonated drinks and beer.
Matters needing attention in drinking carbonated drinks such as cola.
Although the phenomenon of bubbles overflowing after cola, beer and other drinks are eaten together with weakly alkaline foods such as Mentos is not as amazing as the legend, weakly alkaline drinks containing alkaline or weakly alkaline drugs such as sodium bicarbonate and aerated snacks such as pop rocks are best not to be mixed with carbonated drinks. In particular, it should be noted that after high-protein foods such as meat, eggs, dairy products and bean products are "matched" with carbonated drinks, not only the nutrition is reduced, but also it is not conducive to gastrointestinal absorption. If people with stomach problems eat two kinds of food together, a lot of gas will make their stomach uncomfortable and affect their health.