{"id":14422,"date":"2012-01-05T21:51:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T02:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=14422"},"modified":"2012-01-05T21:51:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T02:51:41","slug":"mountain-dew-is-not-battery-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=14422","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Dew is not battery acid"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/bottomline.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/01\/05\/9980804-mountain-dew-offers-odd-defense-in-mouse-charge'>PepsiCo, the soft drink's<\/a> parent company, defended itself against a man who claimed he found a dead mouse in a can of the citrus soda. Experts called in by PepsiCo's lawyers offered a stomach-churning explanation for why it couldn't be true: the Mountain Dew would have dissolved the mouse, turning it into a \"jelly-like substance,\" had it been in the can of fluid from the time of its bottling until the day the plaintiff opened it, 15 months later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All across the interwebs, people are squealing about how this demostrates just how horrible and caustic Mountain Dew must be, and why nobody should ever ever drink such horrible stuff, etc.. And yes, the acid in Mountain Dew will dissolve stuff (though very slowly). It has a fairly low pH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.21stcenturydental.com\/smith\/pH_drinks.htm\">3.22<\/a>. But plenty of other common drinks are much more acidic. Cherry Coke is has a pH of 2.52 (and remember pH is a logarithmic scale: 1.0 lower = 10x as acidic), Pepsi is 2.49, cranberry juice is 2.3. All of those (and many more) will 'dissolve' a mouse, or your teeth, quicker than Mountain Dew. And don't even think about eating a lemon or lime (pH of 2.0)! Yipes! But stomach acid comes in at 2.0 and it's already inside you, <em>right now<\/em>! And, should you have a taste for it, battery acid has a pH of 1.0 (or less). Now <em>that's<\/em> acidic. Mountain Dew's 3.2? Bah. Brush your teeth once in a while. You'll be fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PepsiCo, the soft drink's parent company, defended itself against a man who claimed he found a dead mouse in a can of the citrus soda. Experts called in by PepsiCo's lawyers offered a stomach-churning explanation for why it couldn't be true: the Mountain Dew would have dissolved the mouse, turning it into a \"jelly-like substance,\" [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}