An Egg in Coca Cola for One Year

[casper]

See what happens when an egg a year hold in Coca Cola
One young man decided on an unusual experiment to show people how Coka-cola affects our body, and the result will shock you.
link:
https://youtu.be/d5iESuGhL-A

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[lainey]

Re: See what happens when an egg a year hold in Coca Cola

See what happens when an egg a year hold in Coca Cola
One young man decided on an unusual experiment to show people how Coka-cola affects our body, and the result will shock you.
link:
https://youtu.be/d5iESuGhL-A

I had to laugh because he could have just used a smaller bowl. But sure coca cola is a disgusting thing to put in our bodies:

http://www.today.com/health/diet-soda-doing-these-7-awful-things-your-body-1C6558748

Pop quiz! What's the single biggest source of calories for Americans? White bread? Big Macs? Actually, try soda. The average American drinks about two cans of the stuff every day. "But I drink diet soda," you say. "With no calories or sugar, it's the perfect alternative for weight watchers...Right?"

Not so fast. Before you pop the top off the caramel-colored bubbly, know this: guzzling diet soda comes with its own set of side effects that may harm your health--from kickstarting kidney problems to adding inches to your waistline.

Unfortunately, diet soda is more in vogue than ever. Kids consume the stuff at more than double the rate of last decade, according to research in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Among adults, consumption has grown almost 25 percent.

But knowing these 7 side effects of drinking diet soda may help you kick the can for good.

Kidney Problems

Here's something you didn't know about your diet soda: It might be bad for your kidneys. In an 11-year-long Harvard Medical School study of more than 3,000 women, researchers found that diet cola is associated with a two-fold increased risk for kidney decline. Kidney function started declining when women drank more than two sodas a day. Even more interesting: Since kidney decline was not associated with sugar-sweetened sodas, researchers suspect that the diet sweeteners are responsible.

The Skinny on Artificial Sweeteners

Messed-Up Metabolism

According to a 2008 University of Minnesota study of almost 10,000 adults, even just one diet soda a day is linked to a 34% higher risk of metabolic syndrome, the group of symptoms including belly fat and high cholesterol that puts you at risk for heart disease. Whether that link is attributed to an ingredient in diet soda or the drinkers' eating habits is unclear. But is that one can really worth it?

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Obesity

You read that right: Diet soda doesn't help you lose weight after all. A University of Texas Health Science Center study found that the more diet sodas a person drank, the greater their risk of becoming overweight. Downing just two or more cans a day increased waistlines by 500%. Why? Artificial sweeteners can disrupt the body's natural ability to regulate calorie intake based on the sweetness of foods, suggested an animal study from Purdue University. That means people who consume diet foods might be more likely to overeat, because your body is being tricked into thinking it's eating sugar, and you crave more.

How to Beat Your Sugar Addiction

A Terrible Hangover

Your first bad decision was ordering that whiskey-and-diet-cola -- and you may make the next one sooner than you thought. Cocktails made with diet soda get you drunker, faster, according to a study out of the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia. That's because sugar-free mixers allow liquor to enter your bloodstream much quicker than those with sugar, leaving you with a bigger buzz.

Cell Damage

Diet sodas contain something many regular sodas don't: mold inhibitors. They go by the names sodium benzoate or potassium benzoate, and they're in nearly all diet sodas. But many regular sodas, such as Coke and Pepsi, don't contain this preservative.

That's bad news for diet drinkers. "These chemicals have the ability to cause severe damage to DNA in the mitochondria to the point that they totally inactivate it - they knock it out altogether," Peter Piper, a professor of molecular biology and biotechnology at the University of Sheffield in the U.K., told a British newspaper in 1999. The preservative has also been linked to hives, asthma, and other allergic conditions, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Since then, some companies have phased out sodium benzoate. Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi have replaced it with another preservative, potassium benzoate. Both sodium and potassium benzoate were classified by the Food Commission in the UK as mild irritants to the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes.

Rotting Teeth

With a pH of 3.2, diet soda is very acidic. (As a point of reference, the pH of battery acid is 1. Water is 7.) The acid is what readily dissolves enamel, and just because a soda is diet doesn't make it acid-light. Adults who drink three or more sodas a day have worse dental health, says a University of Michigan analysis of dental checkup data. Soda drinkers had far greater decay, more missing teeth, and more fillings.

Reproductive Issues

Sometimes, the vessel for your beverage is just as harmful. Diet or not, soft drink cans are coated with the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA), which has been linked to everything from heart disease to obesity to reproductive problems. That's a lot of risktaking for one can of pop.

 

[Miss.K]

Re: See what happens when an egg a year hold in Coca Cola

I'm not sure it proves what happens to the body, as laying in something for a year isn't the same as eating it, I think.

But not that I need any proof that cola is not fit for consumption
(well to be fair, I knew a dog once, who sometimes had stomach problems that the only thing the owner had found that helped was giving it ecological cola as medicine)

I once had to get into a place where the lock had rusted so I couldn't open it with the key, and I bought a coca cola and poured it over the lock and blim! the rust was instantly dissolved and I could open the door, so it's good for things like that :)

 

[Thor]

Re: See what happens when an egg a year hold in Coca Cola

While I'm very sure that Coca Cola does a lot of bad things to your body (particularly due to the high sugar content) I don't find the experiment that surprising.

I'm no expert on chemistry but as far as I recall egg shell is made up mostly of calcium. Coca Cola is very acidic with a pH value of around 2.5. This will erode the calcium the same way that vinegar will dissolve the calcium in your kettle.

The second part, that it turned so brown is also to be expected, I suppose. In many Indian dishes boiled eggs are marinated in different color full spices and the egg-white will take on that color. So the porous texture of the hardened egg white seems like to take on the color of whatever ingredient it's exposed to.

The last question is why the egg became hard, like a hard boiled egg. I assume that if you let any egg lie around for a year it will rot. Whether that makes it dry out I don't know but it's at least plausible. A hypothesis could be that it took a while for the Coca Cola to dissolve the egg shell and that the inside of the egg had hardened by then. The rest of the time, the color seeped deeper and deeper into the egg.

It's disgusting, but not that shocking :)