You ever mixed Coke and Milk together? I used 3 teaspoons and it chemically changes the Coke. I can't imagine what it's doing when the two are combined in a stomach.  Whether you are a Coke drinker or not, its facinating to see what happens. Would you drink the final product? Check it out:

 

Laverne and Shirley- Milk and Pepsi!

 

We tried it in 1976 when we were kids.  I'm still here to tell about it!

It's not a chemical change at all. It's a physical change. The acid and polarity in the pop causes the milk fats (which are suspended in a colloidal solution) to separate. These fats then attract all the food coloring as well. So you are left with clear coke mixed with whey and what is essentially brown cottage cheese at the bottom. Certainly gross, but still coke and milk.

Looks like a reason to go vegan ;)

 

Reminds me of Guinness & Bailey's.

Yeah, I don't get the point, unless it's fearmongering.  Only the proteins in the milk coagulating in the acid.  I loved the analogy of chasing down potato soup with a coke!  I guess it might be as intense, if the stomach was a closed system, but it is not.

 

In fact, the reaction would be worse in the stomach because the pH is much lower than a simple bottle of Coke.

 

How do you think the body extracts the proteins from the milk?  They break them down by the use of acids.

Is this any different than a root beer float?

Well, except that you're staring at it & not drinking it where it gets mixed into all sorts of other chemicals....

Right, you get that same curdling in a root beer or coke float. You can always see little scum on the edges.  Then you swallow it, and the stomach acid continues the process and it gets passed on.  It doesn't wait for the rest of the beverage and sit there with a lid on it! 

Well, I didn't learn anything I didn't know about milk and coke, but I did learn how smart some of our forum members are!

 

(I did the milk and pepsi think too)

The videos are short on facts.  Like his sugar in coke video.  Obviously too many cokes can provide too many calories. He doesn't give all the facts, or assumes that since the sugar has undergone a chemical reaction to ethanol, it is no longer there.   

 

Yes, technically there is no sugar in booze, but the calories are still there!  I challenge anyone to make moonshine without sugar!  The Cleveland Sugar wars didn't occur because they wanted it for their coffee!!

The Cleveland Sugar wars didn't occur because they wanted it for their coffee!!

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5AkLup1mI

The biggest thing is moderation. I don't drink Coke every day, but I enjoy it once in awhile, usually with Rum. Or Jack.

Is this any different than a root beer float?

 

Actually, yes.  Root beer is mostly carbonated water and sugar with some flavoring and has a pH of about 4. Coke adds phosphoric acid and gets the pH down to 2 -- 100 times greater acidity.

 

 

I remember kids in school chugging their milk as fast as possible so that they'd be allowed to buy pop.

Thanks for all the feedback.  I am not a science major, but found both this and the Coke/Sugar rather informative.  I wanted to visualize the sugar grams or the chemical change caused by milk so people understand what they are consuming. I could have produced a science show on both of these, but I am more interested in awareness than a chemical breakdown.  Hopefully I attained that goal.  I used to be hooked on this stuff till I took up riding. Other than a rum and coke, I will no longer touch it.

 

I had forgotten the Laverne and Shirley show till now - thanks for the memory.

 

I wonder if the same thing would happen with a Mountain Dew?  Any guesses?

 

I do these as fun projects as my real focus is on producing cycling videos - to document as many trails as I can before the cold weather sets in.               

The are very interesting, but are not very informative and cannot tell someone anything about what they are digesting.  As Johio said, most people would be disgusted as to what happens within the digestive system even with a regular diet.

 

Digesting a steak is not the same as putting it in a blender, and all of a sudden the benefits are available.  The meat still has to be processed by the body, through the use of acids, bases, and enzymes.  The process starts with saliva.  How else do you think that stuff comes out the other end?

 

 

This might be  cool experiment to try

 

Pouring hot liquids or metals, such as lead or gold, into the mouth of a victim was a practice used on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, by the Romans and the Spanish Inquisition among others.

Several sources mention the bursting of internal organs. The question remains whether this is actually the case and, also, what the cause of death would be. To investigate this, we obtained a bovine larynx from a local slaughter house...

 

http://m.jcp.bmj.com/content/56/2/157.full