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- Also known as "The Chewy Mint"
- Invented in 1950s
- Created in the Netherlands
- Made by Van Melle Corporation
- Slogan: "The Freshmaker"
- 45 rolls consumed every second
- Sold in more than 150 countries
- Mentos is Spanish for mint
- Available flavors: Orange, strawberry, lemon, cinnamon, among others
- Mentos gum has been recently introduced to the U.S.
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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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Mentos Questions
I wonder how many calories are in a full pack of flavoured mentos? 1 Answer1 piece = 10 cals read more
What makes ( creates ) the explosive affect possible when dropping mentos into a soda bottle ? 1 AnswerOne possibility is that the candy breaks the surface tension of the liquid which allows all the bubbles to be released at once (especially since the candy is he... read more
The history of the invention of Mentos 1 AnswerAccording to their official site, the history of the invention of the candy Mentos is as follows: - 1932: Pierre van Melle has the idea for a peppermint flavo... read more
Who wrote the old mentos jingle? 1 AnswerJohn Groves  Answer half way down the page. read more -



