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• Mentos is a candy mint with a hard outside and a chewy center that comes in various flavors.

• Fast Facts

  1. Also known as "The Chewy Mint"
  2. Invented in 1950s
  3. Created in the Netherlands
  4. Made by Van Melle Corporation
  5. Slogan: "The Freshmaker"
  6. 45 rolls consumed every second
  7. Sold in more than 150 countries
  8. Mentos is Spanish for mint
  9. Available flavors: Orange, strawberry, lemon, cinnamon, among others
  10. Mentos gum has been recently introduced to the U.S.

• Mentos and Diet Coke

  If you've ever been to YouTube, you are probably familiar with one of the dozens of videos of people creating geysers of soda by plopping a single Mentos candy into a two liter bottle of Diet Coke. The chemical reaction of the two products indeed creates an impressive blast of soda--but if you are going to recreate the experiment, take care to do it somewhere with easy clean up!

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