you did it backwards the guy in the clip ate the mentos first and then the diet coke it will make a big difference

I agree

Doesn't matter. The pouring of the coke destroys most of the 'pop' effect (all those nucleation sites on the way down the gullet).

He'd have foamed up probably as much just trying to guzzle a 2 liter of diet coke like he did.

Remember Jaime put mentos in his mouth and drank diet cola and while he got a reaction, it didn't blow his mouth apart.

Same result for a stomach. The gas would find the easiest way out, probably UP through his throat and mouth, like the video.... with that kind of 'hole' in the stomach, the pressure couldn't have built up to a level where his stomach would have ruptured.

that depends on how fast the pressure built if it built to fast it wouldn't have time to escape without ruptering it's escape route

I will have to agree with the first two guys here on this one because if the mentos went in first they would have the posibility of floating on the byle like substance that they poured in the stomach making contact with the diet coke would be instantanious.

qscfthn171 has a point there...

i agree the mentos should have been put in first. roughly a 2 liter bottle of soda, has too liters of carbonaztion & 2 liters of soda. so the expansion would be the same. however, the mentos causes the seperation of the gas and soda too fast. now it would depend if the stomach could ajust fast enough.

im new on this and i dont know how to comment on the boliten so if some1 reads this tell me please

they neeeeed to revisit this one i cant believe they didn't even try it.Because that was how he did it

I know

yes they should

Since the stomach was suspended without boundary conditions of muscles, fat, other organs, skin, etc., it is not constrained the same way as it would be in an animal. I don't think this or the Pop Rocks test are remotely valid. Whatever valve is between the esophagus to the stomach (if there is one) would surely open and make the mixture of candies and cola come right back out where it came in.

So, this is a crazy myth that I came across before I ever saw the Mythbuster's episode. I teach middle school, and I have actually had many students try this mento and soda "myth" in fact I had a student try to get me to enjoy a few mentos as I was drinking my own diet soda during lunch one day. Lovely kid . Most of the kids just got sick and "gassy feeling" stomach aches. I guess the old do not do this at home thing should apply to do not do this at school either. Although, I can't promise they had multiple mentos and liters of soda, but they do like to push the limits.

well the mentos would of been dissolved most likley but they need to retest it anyway

you can retest all you want, but you won't get an explosion because the act of swallowing the soda and it traveling down the esouphagus releases all the Co2 so there is no boom

I also would have to agree that the stomach wasn't in an open air cavity. I also wonder if having digested food in the stomach would make a difference? What kind of space is available in a stomach after say a good meal? The stomach was surrounded by organs, fluids and enclosed in a body. I also think the cola temp is a factor.

The guy in the video clip busted this myth himself!!!

Here are the links to TWO videos of the SAME GUY doing the SAME THING, wearing 2 different shirts, 2 different backgrounds... If his stomach really exploded - HOW COULD HE HAVE DONE IT AGAIN?????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFf-kW1E0Tc&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgQ9kvLGXS8&NR=1

The soda seems to need air to release the carbonation; what if you could manage to drink a quantity fast enough that there was still plenty of co2 left to discharge by the time it got to your stomach? A slow, steady pour does not necessarily release all of that gas, particularly at colder temps.

i think that if the mentos go in first and then sit on the byle or even food then drank the diet coke normally than you could have maybe a ruptured stomach or ruptured esouphagus

Imagine your stomach as a balloon...

Now try to blow up the balloon without pinching off the 'mouth' of the balloon.

Can't do it can you?

Same thing with the stomach.