I saw the experiment on youtube. Pretty amazing, and my chemistry teacher actually allowed us to do it as our experiment project.

Try this, eat your mentos and drink coke at the same time. I've done it before and my face when pale because of the sudden explosion inside my mouth. If you wanna do this, i urge you to be careful.

I so wanna swallow the mentos and drink coke at the same time, i wonder how it feels to have an explosion in my stomach

We did this project in Bio class, something about the bi-polar attraction of water molecules that hold the carbon in place until something in the mentos causes it to be released all at once. It works with any kind of carbonated drink. But of course the outdated (flat) ones don't work nearly as well.
gotta love first yea bio teachers who don't really want to be teaching bio

And Nero...
I am sure you would be left with some major belching and probably some serious crams and stomach pains.

This post has been edited by laforgej: Jan 7 2007, 07:35 AM

We've done this around 7 years ago when I was in high school. We used to this this as a prank. When someone drinks Coke and looks away from his bottle, we'd slip a half peice mentos into his bottle. The half-peice mentos would cause the bottle fo coke to bubble up and spill. An dif you shake the bottle, it would eventually explode. It's actually the inner part of mentos that makes it bubble, because if you put the whole mentos in, it would take sometime for the coke to bubble. It was fun seeing the shocked faces of my friends upon seeing their bottle of coke buuble up then spill.

Agree on that it was cool the first time I saw it but after that, it was even coo, except for those who tried some completely different. Although I did find it interesting as to why this combo works like it should.

I do think it's all about mint and carbonated water. We used to own a convenience store and, among others, we sell Coke, Sprite and Royal (it's an orange juice soda, by the same company). Among candies, we also sell Mentos (both mint and spearmint) and Polo (ze mint wiz ze hole).

Anyway, it didn't work as well for the spearmint flavored Mentos. The original mint flavored Mentos took quite some time. See, Mentos has this candy coating that, well, coats the mint inside. Polo, on the other hand, is pure mint candy. It all mint inside out so I do think I like its "potency" more than that of Mentos

I also like to use Coke (or Pepsi) more than any other soda 'coz it leaves stains more unsightly than the others.

I wonder...

I saw that a long time ago, and yes its impressive.
There is a guy called Renetto on Youtube that was making fake videos of himself exploding his stomach because of eating mentos and drinking coke at the same time, hahaha that was funny.

www.discovery.com/mythbusters

they did an entire episode about this once. They figured out exactly what ingrediants worked the best. And if you want to try at home, use DIET COKE, not the regular stuff. Astpertaime gives it an extra kick.

Anyone wants to experiment themselves by drinking 2 litres of Coke and immediately swallow one mentos. Don't chew, swallow. Who dare try? lol, I myself don't dare.

Well it wont be much effective if you dont chew the mentos, coz it's the candy inside that reacts to Coke. Maybe a small bottle of Coke and 2 pcs. of mentos will do. Heheh. But then again, this might be the same with swallowing a can of Soda and popping candy at the same time, like that one in the movie Urban Legends.