For real? Pepsi is made of people?
Well, part of it.
Pepsi, coca... You still end up pouring acid on your teeth basically, to begin with, while drinking those
For real, shit's abrasive as fuck
https://www.healthline.com/health/dental-oral-health/what-does-soda-do-to-your-teeth
If you’re like up to halfTrusted Source of the American population, you may have had a sugary drink today — and there’s a good chance it was soda. Drinking high-sugar soft drinks is most commonly associated with obesity, type 2 diabetes, and weight gain.
But sodas can also have ill effects on your smile, potentially leading to cavitiesTrusted Source and even visible tooth decay.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Trusted Source, men are more likely to drink soda and sugary drinks. Teenage boys drink the most and get about 273 calories from them per day. That number falls only slightly to 252 calories in their 20s and 30s.
When you drink soda, the sugars it contains interact with bacteria in your mouth to form acid. This acid attacks your teeth. Both regular and sugar-free sodas also contain their own acids, and these attack the teeth too. With each swig of soda, you’re starting a damaging reaction that lasts for about 20 minutes. If you sip all day, your teeth are under constant attack.
Erosion begins when the acids in soft drinks encounter the tooth enamel, which is the outermost protective layer on your teeth. Their effect is to reduce the surface hardness of the enamel.
While sports drinks and fruit juices can also damage enamel, they stop there.
Cavities
Soft drinks, on the other hand, can also affect the next layer, dentin, and even composite fillings. This damage to your tooth enamel can invite cavities. Cavities, or caries, develop over time in people who drink soft drinks regularly. Add in poor oral hygiene, and a lot of damage can occur to the teeth.
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"and even composite fillings"
Imagine that
https://wallstreetinsanity.com/drinking-soda-is-like-pouring-acid-on-your-teeth/
When it comes to liquids, the lower the pH, the higher the acidity. Plain ol’ natural water is the best for your teeth with a completely neutral pH level of 7. But everything else — even milk — has acid to some level. Milk’s pH is just slightly lower than water at 6.5, and black coffee slightly lower than that at 6.3. Acid begins to dissolve tooth enamel at a pH of 5.5. And the safest of the major soda brands — Dr. Pepper — comes in at a pH of just 3.4.
Soda acidity just continues to get higher, with Sprite at 3.3 and Mountain Dew at 3.2. Coke and Pepsi disturbingly have the same pH at vinegar, a highly acidic 2.5.
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https://visaya.solutions/en/article/ph-of-coca-cola/ What is Coca-Cola’s pH?
Lemon has a pH of around 2.5, but the pH of Coca-Cola hits 2.3 because of all the phosphoric acid coke contains. And this is only one of the reasons why the world needs accurate pH measurement.
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"phosphoric acid"
On your teeth, literally
Just rinse with water afterward and the damage to the teeth is greatly minimized, though people drinking coke probably aren't thinking about their health or they wouldn't be drinking it in the first place. Teeth are important to the body's health, but with soft drinks I'd wager the majority of the damage is done after it passes the teeth.
Yeah the story doesn't stop at the teeth, then you have the stomac of course, and the livers... "phosphoric acid".
Shit's more acid than vinegar lol
You forgot the dead baby additives.
Yeah now that you mention it, there was a story like that floating around a decade ago...
>Pepsi's Bizarro World: Boycotted Over Embryonic Cells Linked to Lo-Cal Soda
A bizarre controversy is unfolding over an impending low-calorie soda from Pepsi (PEP), which the company is creating with the help of the biotech company Senomyx (SNMX). Numerous anti-abortion groups have started a boycott of Pepsi products because they say Senomyx, which develops new ingredients intended to enhance sweetness and other flavors, has done so using embryonic kidney cells that were originally taken from an aborted baby.
This accusation presents a two-fold problem for Pepsi. The first, most obvious one is that the beverage giant has now ardent anti-abortionists breathing down its neck. The second, and possibly more troubling, issue is that some of Pepsi's attempts to create groundbreaking and healthier products are now associated with fetal kidney cells.
What Senomyx is up to Is this claim true? Neither Pepsi nor Senomyx returned calls, so we don't know the companies' side of the story. But a perusal of Senomyx's patents suggests that it may well be. All but 7 of the company's 77 patents refer to the use of HEK 293 (human embryonic kidney) cells, which researchers have used for decades as biological workhorses. (For the bio-geeks among you, these cells offer a reliable way to produce new proteins via genetic engineering.)
The company appears to be engineering HEK cells to function like the taste-receptor cells we have in our mouth. This way, Senomyx can test millions of substances to see if they work as different types of taste enhancers without subjecting human volunteers to endless taste tests.
To non-scientists this may sound a bit strange, but the reality is that HEK 293 cells are widely used in pharmaceutical research, helping scientists create vaccines as well as drugs like those for rheumatoid arthritis. The difference here is that Senomyx's work for Pepsi is one of the first times the cells have (potentially) been used to create a food or beverage. (And it's important to note that no part of a human kidney cell are ever a part of Senomyx's taste enhancers or any finished food products.)
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