Diet Soda And Regular Soda Experiment

In the experiment a regular soda was first tested in high heat.

Diet soda and regular soda experiment. For example maybe that 150 calories and 40 grams of sugar from regular soda ends up being less than the extra calories that you d consume from binging on foods since your cravings are elevated. Boiling the beverage will take away the water from the regular version. Most regular sodas have between 39 and 43 grams of sugar. In fact they reported that regular soda led to an 18 increased risk of type 2 diabetes per serving while diet sodas had a higher 25 increased risk per serving.

To perform our little experiment you ll need a can of regular soda of any brand and an equivalent can of the diet version say coca cola and diet coke for example. When it comes to drinking soda moderation is the key. The diet coke will float at the top and the coca cola will sink to the bottom. After 20 minutes of stirring and letting the soda boil in the nonstick pan the sugar found in the product caramelized leaving a ton of sugar on the pan.

Students are able to tell me that the independent variable is the diet soda and regular soda. Brooke lytle september 2 2015 at 5 24 pm. I personally believe that regular sodas would be healthier than diet sodas. Notice how much sugar is in a regular soda look under carbohydrates.

Place both cans into a bucket of tap water. This added mass is why the cans of regular soda sink in. Regular soda the good. One scientist from illinois state university tested the amount of co2 that is released from soda using ultrasonic energy.

The idea behind this demonstration is that regular coca cola contains 39 g of sugar per 355 ml soda but because the sweetener in diet coke is so much sweeter than sugar there is much less of it in the diet coke than there is sugar in regular coke. Diet sodas usually contain aspartame an artificial sweetener while regular sodas use sugar. In the case of diabetes one systematic review of 17 related studies did preliminarily find an increased risk with diet soda. Now this is just one study but if you find drinking diet soda increases you hunger compared to regular soda maybe you should switch to regular soda.

Take a look at the nutritional information on the side of the cans. Artificial sweeteners are not natural have not been around long enough to be proven safe and can even encourage people to drink more soda because they think they are able to have more from the lack of calories. Scientific research suggests that diet soda or diet coke in particular produces more carbonation or fizz than its counterpart regular coke. Results showed that diet coke had more fizz.

Diet coke should therefore be less dense than regular coke.