Monday, November 7, 2011

Coke/Soda Kills Urban Legend

Resource: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcoke.htm

To start this blog. What do you think? Does a food industry want to poison all their customers to lose business? Yeah it wouldn't particularly make sense. Also, this won't kill us, but for sure it has no nutritional value. One of the things that will confuse a consumer to this little rumor is a certain chemical. This chemical is usually mixed up with Ethylene Glycol, which is toxic and is used as an anti-freeze. The real chemical used is propylene glycol which is used as an anti-freeze as well. The major difference is that propylene glycol is not toxic. Another rumor is the acidity in Coke. The estimate shown is ph 3.4, this is high enough to dissolve bones. The interesting thing is that we have a digestive system that helps the soda from actually touching most of our bones. Fruits will also have this kind of acidity as well. It's really not that big of a deal, and we really can't hold soda in our mouths for a whole week because then we would have some problems. Also, to an uninformed citizen, knowing that phosphoric acid in Coke would probably scare someone away. Well, be scared of most beverages because that chemical is present in many items we consume. It doesn't hurt us nor does it affect. I conclude that Coke will not kill anybody.

I believe this is a wonderful analysis of a viral email going around. This is very much helpful to anyone that was affected by this stupid trick. This can change what people think about Coke and conspiracy theorists can learn that there is nothing that major in Coca Cola.

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