On day one following the treatment, one group “A” fish (no soda) was captured via angling. All fish released recovered from sedation except one treatment “B” fish (soda), which deceased. Interestingly enough, although sedated, every fish had a muscular reaction to the soda application. Some lacerations did take two pouring attempts to completely stop bleeding. This was achieved using low volumes of soda for the 10 treatment fish, a total of 30 ounces of soda was used. Once recaptured, each fish was removed from the study and images were taken of the gill filament.įollowing laceration of the gill of treatment group “B” fish, soda was an effective method to stop bleeding. At 24 hours post-treatment, angling began in small 15 to 30-minute attempts to measure fish recovery based on successful recapture. I used angling success to determine recovery. The pond has been stocked with forage fish but no other predatory fish. Group “A” and “B” were marked using a unique fin clip to denote their treatment type and then all 30 fish were released into a.
Group “C” was the control group which were sedated but had their gills untreated. For group “B” I used the same procedure to create a laceration then applied soda to the gill until the bleeding appeared to stop.
All 30 fish were sedated and randomly assigned a treatment group.įor group “A” I used a hook to create a laceration in the area where the gill arch meets filaments and applied no soda. All 30 fish were captured using electrofishing and measured between 12 to 14 inches. (As a side note, "Diet" labels won't shield your teeth from the damage: In the study, Diet Mountain Dew eroded more than 8 percent of the tooth enamel in the course of two weeks.I designed the experiment using three 10-fish treatment groups. Meanwhile, molars soaked in Coca Cola for two weeks lost slightly more than 1 percent of their enamel volume. When Fraunhofer's team soaked human molars in Mountain Dew for two weeks (a period of time comparable to approximately 13 years of normal beverage exposure, the researchers calculated) the molars' enamel lost more than 6 percent of its volume. Anthony von Fraunhofer found that citrus sodas like Mountain Dew and Sprite erode tooth enamel around six times faster than colas. Coca Cola, with its dark coloring and non-fruity flavor, may be the soft drink most often compared to battery acid, but in 2004, a well-known study led by dentist J. Consequently, these drinks have a low pH value around 3 (very acidic). Most citrus sodas mix in the stuff to give drinks their tangy bite, while most colas, such as Coca Cola and Pepsi, incorporate phosphoric acid for the same effect. It will be like rubber."Īccording to Ren, Mountain Dew contains citric acid, a substance naturally found in citrus fruits that exists as a powder in its purified, industrialized form. "But dissolving does not mean it will disappear, because you'll still have the collagen and the soft tissue part. "I think it is plausible that it could dissolve a mouse in a few months," said Yan-Fang Ren of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, who has studied the effects of citric acid on bones and teeth. While published studies have not been conducted on how rapidly Mountain Dew would dissolve a mouse, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the neon green soda can eat away teeth and bones in a matter of months, and would likely do quite a number on a rodent. Key to Pepsi's legal argument is that there's no chance a mouse's corpse could survive, intact, for 15 months swimming in Mountain Dew.
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