So Mountain Dew is safer for your rat than your cat. Your liver uses glycine to convert benzoic acid into hippuric acid, which then passes into the urine.īenzoic acid is more toxic to cats ( LD50 = 450mg/kg) than in rodents ( LD50 = >1940mg/kg). This means that sodium benzoate prevents microbes from drinking all your Mountain Dew before you get a chance to. Benzoic acid, which is the result of dissolving sodium benzoate in acidic conditions, is an antimicrobial agent. Sodium Benzoate: There is a parenthetical on the can following this ingredient which explains that it "preserves freshness". 60 g/100 ml 20C (Anhydrous), its density is 1.542 and its pH is 2.2 (0.1 N sol). Yet more reasons to not drink large amounts of Mountain Dew, I guess.Ĭitric acid has the formula H 3C 6H 5O 7.H 2O and a molecular weight of 210.14. Also, (c)hronic or heavy acute ingestion may cause tooth enamel erosion. Calcium deficiency in blood may result in severe cases of ingestion. Extremely large oral dosages may produce gastrointestinal disturbances. Symptoms may include nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. The Materials Safety Data Sheet for citric acid provides this relevant warning:Ĭauses irritation to the gastrointestinal tract. I have no idea how concentrated the citric acid in Mountain Dew is, but it's probably safe to say that it's relatively dilute. It doesn't matter if they have been thereafter sythesized in a lab or extracted directly from foods.either way, they're " natural flavors".Ĭitric Acid: As with any acid, the concentration is important. "Natural flavors" are simply the flavor/ scent chemicals which chemists have been able to isolate from various real foods. But don't be thinking that means they squeezed a bunch of lemons or zested some limes. Other Natural Flavors can be bascially anything.
Probably more than the orange juice concentrate you can buy at your local grocery, though. This ingredient is followed by "and/or Sugar" by which I assume they are referring to sucrose.Ĭoncentrated Orange Juice and Other Natural Flavors: Concentrated orange juice is exactly what it sounds like, though I don't know exactly how "concentrated" it is. HFCS officially contains 82% "solids", 43% dextrose, 31% disaccharides, 14% fructose and 12% "other". HFCS is derived from hydrolized corn starch, and glucose in the resulting corn syrup is modified (using enzymes) into fructose. How sweet? 75% sweeter (on the "sweetness scale"?) than sucrose which, for you non-chemists out there, is table sugar. High Fructose Corn Syrup: A fancy, very sweet sugar. Gives you that nice bubbly/tickly feeling you want in a soda. Water with carbon dioxide dissolved in it. This, of course, includes only the ingredients that PepsiCo wishes to publicly reveal and does not delve into what, exactly might be in such things as " natural flavors".Ĭarbonated Water: Not much to explain. The following is a listing and short explanation of the ingredients listed on the side of a can of Mountain Dew. If you give him a chance he'll go right down your pantsįor a taste of that good ol' mountain dew. Had a year in prison, or two (TRY THREE!) (too be sung when there are no Scoutmasters around) If your likker's too red, it will swell up your headīetter stick to that good old mountain dew Here's the part that might offend you: Franklin Roosevelt, he told me how he felt We turned out some stuff, I'm tellin' you With a few old potaters and a few ripe tomaters, Then you stir it awhile with an old rusty file,Īnd they call it that good old mountain dew.ĭuring the last war, we couldn't get no more, You take a little trash and you mix it up with ash, If you hush up your mug, then they'll give you a jug Where you lay down a dollar or two (TRY THREE!) There's an old hollow tree, just a little way from me The preacher-he walked by, with a big tear in his eyeĪnd hadn't I ought just to give him a quart I know a guy named Pete, his hair ain't so neat,īut it stays right in place when he uses just a trace It was nothing but that good old mountain dew It had such a wonderful 'pew' (LIKE PEE!)īut to her surprise, when she had it analyzed, He measure 'bout four foot two, (TRY THREE!)īut he thinks he's a giant when you give him a pint My uncle Mort, he is sawed off and short, It just ran on that good old mountain dew. It didn't need no gas and it didn't need no oil, I'll hush up my mug if you'll fill up my jug
They call it that good old mountan dew, (dew dew)Īnd them that refuse it are few. Just from sniffing that good old mountain dew. Where he turns out a gallon or two (TRY THREE!)Īnd the buzzards in the sky get so drunk they can not fly Dew that we sing in Boy Scouts: (Mountain Dew was a slang term for the illegal hooch sold during prohibition)
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