Coke and Mentos Death Warning Email
The original site is no longer online; links go to the Internet Archive copy.
The claim
Email claims that children have died after consuming Diet Coke and Mentos together. The message includes photographs of the violent reaction that occurs when Diet Coke and Mentos are combined ( Full commentary below ).
Subject:Fw: Dangerous – Do not drink Coka-Cola and eat MENTOS together…!!!
Seeing is believing?don’t you think?!!!
Last week a little boy died in Brazil after eating MENTOS and drinking Coka-Cola together.
One year before the same accident happened with another boy in Brazil..
Please check the experiment that has been done by mixing Coka-Cola (or Coka-Cola light are the same) with MENTOS…….. So be careful!!
What the fact-checkers found
The reaction is real – Reports of resulting deaths are unsubstantiated and probably untrue.
Update:
During 2007, a new version of the warning message began circulating formatted as a PowerPoint slide show (details in commentary below).
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