Soda

The Soda Tax Appears to Work

A real-world experiment in Berkeley, California might help settle the debate over whether taxing sugary soft drinks can make people healthier. A new study found that the drinking habits of Berkeley residents got better and stayed better over the three years after a 2014 soda tax was passed. Residents not only drank less soda, but…

Diet Soda Might Still Contribute to Diabetes, Rat Study Suggests

For as long as artificial sweeteners have existed, people have been warned about their supposed health risks such as cancer and multiple sclerosis. But while these claims are routinely debunked as nothing more than junk science, some research—including a new study presented this week at the annual Experimental Biology conference—is beginning to indicate that sweeteners…

Something Wonderful Happens When You Mix Microwaves, Soda, and Wood

The next time you accidentally spill soda, or water, plus a little baking soda on one of your cutting boards, don’t complain about having to clean it up. Instead, tear the safety cover off your microwave and use it as a high-voltage power source to etch a cool lightning pattern into the mess. The patterns…

Clever Teen Turns His Locker Into a Soda Machine

Most high school students struggle to write a passable essay on Catcher in the Rye, but Blake Hawkins has more than earned his high school diploma—and some spending money on the side—by turning an unused locker into a fully-functional soda can vending machine. Powered by an Arduino hidden away inside a battery-powered control panel, Hawkins’…

What Actually Happens When You Drink Too Much Soda?

Most reasonable people can generally agree on two things: the Earth is round and soda is bad for you. And though we know the first to be absolutely true, what’s so bad about soda? Asap Science explains as only they can in the hand drawn animation below. Basically, it erodes enamel on our teeth, pumps…

This Chaotic Rube Goldberg Machine Is the Most Complicated Way to Get a Soda

There are 175 steps in this Rube Goldberg Machine made by berlagawesome and they’re all layered right after each other and on top of each other and basically all over each other that it’s so chaotic that you don’t always know what’s going on and where to follow. But then somehow, the ball manages to…

What Happens When You Mix Coca Cola with Bleach?

Coke is delicious. Bleach is strong as hell. What happens when you mix the two? Crazy Russian Hacker did the work in finding out and it’s a fun little experiment because you get to see the color of Coca Cola disappear right in front of your eyes. Bleach is so powerful that it strips darkness…

A Shop With 700 Flavors of Soda Is My Perfect Grocery Store

Galco’s Soda Pop Stop is a store in Highland Park, LA, with shelves full of an incomprehensible array of soda (and beer!). But it’s not just a novelty: it’s a trip back to a time when soda pop was a craft industry like modern microbreweries, and the entire nation wasn’t hooked on corn syrup. Tom…

I Want to Buy Keurig’s New Soda-Dispensing Machine (Unfortunately)

Keurig, the company that stole all your money with its annoyingly convenient coffee machines, has just announced a machine that might do the same thing for soda. The $370 Keurig Kold is exactly like Keurig’s coffee machines, except for carbonated drinks: fill it with room-temperature water, pop in a capsule, and it spits out a…

What happens when you drop a can of Coke into liquid nitrogen

It’s going to freeze obviously. But there’s this awesome possibility that the soda can will split in half and start spewing an explosion of almost frozen Coca Cola into the surrounding liquid nitrogen. Once it does that, the exploded coke looks like it has been stopped in time, the soda has frozen into art mid-explosion.…

Pouring Coca Cola into molten lead creates wild alien art

Coca Cola is delicious. It’s a causer of diabetes and a bringer of obesity but it is delicious. Turns out it’s also probably used by aliens to make art of their home planets. Check out what happens when you melt lead and then add that dark sugar water into the mix, it smokes and pops…

How To Kick A Bad Habit

After our call to stop drinking bottled water, we asked for reader advice for how to kick a bad habit. You responded with with hard-earned wisdom and tips for how to cut back or cut out everything from sugar to smoking. Here’s how to break free. From a professional: BrianF wrote: I am a Behavior…

Soda actually makes for an excellent cleaning agent

Need to scrape gum off a sidewalk or get bird crap off your car or even clean your toilet? Just pour soda on it or around it or in it and let the delicious bubbly sugar liquid diabetes do its thing. Soda can be a magic cleaning material. Which is awesome to know in a…

Sugary drinks are now the number one source of junk-food calories for kids, says a new report from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity on the amount and kinds of sugary drinks being knocked back today. While soda consumption has fallen a bit, energy drinks just keep on picking up.

Sodavalves Let You Seal Off Your Soda Like a Submarine Hatch

It’s a dilemma faced by sugar-water drinkers the world over. If you screw a lid back onto a soda bottle too tight it can be almost impossible to open. Too loose, and you risk losing all the carbonation. But these clever Sodavalves solve both scenariosby providing extra leverage for opening and sealing a plastic bottle.…

Some Naked™ juice contains more sugar than Pepsi

Have you ever looked at the nutrition facts on a bottle of Naked™ juice? If you haven’t, you might be surprised to learn just how much sugar is inside. For instance, a small 10 ounce bottle of Naked’s Green Machine has a whopping 35 grams of sugar. Compare that with 10 ounces of Pepsi, which…

Boiling Coca-Cola turns the soda into this gross black goopy tar

The delicious diabetes drink commonly known as soda is a true scientific wonder. We know it’s crap but we love it anyway. CrazyRussianHacker wanted to show just how much crap (and sugar) is in one bottle of Coke so he boiled out all the water in the soda to see what was leftover. The refreshing…

Energy Drink Sales Are Insane, But They Won’t Crush Coffee. Here’s Why.

Here’s some news to file under “dystopian future”: Energy drink sales are skyrocketing so quickly that analysts are predicting it could replace coffee as America’s preferred caffeine-delivery system. But there may yet be some light at the end of the caffeine-tunnel. Roberto Ferdman over at Quartz put together this pair of fear-inducing graphs using data…

California might start putting warning labels on soda

Should your soda come with a warning label? In California, it could soon — just like on the back of a pack of cigarettes. The bill was proposed by state senator Bill Monning, and would add the tag “STATE OF CALIFORNIA SAFETY WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay”…

The Forgotten History of One of Coca-Cola’s Biggest Failures

The Breakmate was supposed to revolutionize how we consumed soda, on par with the advent of the soda fountain and soda bottles, and bring delicious sugary soft drinks to millions of disenfranchised American office workers. So why did Coca-Cola’s foray into small-scale commercial vending during the 1980s flop so miserably? It’s not particularly hard to…