The Diet Coke and Mentos Challenge

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So what is the Diet Coke and Mentos Challenge?

The Diet Coke and Mentos Challenge are only for the daring. The objective of this challenge is to drink a standard 1.25L bottle of diet coke non-stop while having a minimum of 4 mentos in your mouth while try to spit out the least amount of liquid as you can.

Is it that simple?

If you are unaware on the properties of these products then you might not understand the difficulty of this challenge. The mentos activates a physical reaction with the carbon dioxide within the bottle (makes the fizziness), come out as if it were a geyser. This makes it extremely difficult as the person undertaking the challenge has to continue to drink as fast as they can (without trying to choke themselves of course) while also trying to not swallow the mentos within their mouths.

Risks of the challenge

Choking and chest-pains are quite common with is challenge if you are not prepared or have practiced on smaller amounts first.

Personal Experience

I personally have never done this challenge for myself because though the combination of mentos in a coke bottle looked fun as an experiment back in science class, its a whole other story when all that pressure is going into the back of your throat.