Acidic Soda

I will put a marshmellows in soda to see which is the most acidic
Teghbir Dhaliwal
Grade 6

Presentation

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Problem

I'm doing this experiment to see how acidic soda is to you because if I use marshmallows it will show if it dissolves quick it won’t take a lot of time to do the same to your stomach  

 

Method

Manipulated / Independent Variable

 

ONE thing that you will test/change: 

Which soda i put in the jar

Coca Cola

Crush

Mountain Dew

Responding /Dependent Variable

 

The thing I think will change or be affected:  The Marshmallow


 

How will you measure it? : 

How fast will it dissolve in soda

Controlled Variables

 

Things we have to be very careful to keep the same every time we test so that they do not affect the results/outcome of the experiment: 

Jars ,Stopwatch, tape, amount of soda, size of marshmallow

 

  • Coca cola
  • Crush
  • Mountain Dew
  • Jars
  • Marshmallow’
  • Tape 
  • Timer
  • Tape marshmallows to a jar
  • Fill jars with soda (1 cup) and start timer
  • Turn off timer when it dissolves 

Research

About crush. 

Crush is a soda brand that is owned and operated by Keurig Dr Pepper 

Did you know that crush was made by a chemist.

About Coke.

Coke is a soda brand owned and founded Dr.John S, Pemberton he is a pharmacist

Coke was made with the syrup and the recipe was kept for years until was replaced which got lots a lot of backlash so they brought the old recipe back and they had it sense 

About Mountain Dew

Mountain Dew was created,owned and founded by Barney and Ally Hartman as a mixer  

Marshmallow ingredients -sugar -corn syrup -modified corn syrup -gelatin -water -vanilla -blue 1 (artificial color) - dextrose -tetrasodium pyrophosphate extract 

  • may help in the future parts of this experiment

Mountain Dew ingredients -carbonated water -Sugers(sugar glucose-fructose) -Natural flavor -citric acid - sodium benzoate -caffeine -sodium citrate -gum arabic -erythorbic acid -calcium disodium EDTA - Tartrazine

Coca Cola ingredients -carbonated water -sugar/glucose-fructose -caramel color -phosphoric acid -natural flavor -caffeine  - secret recipe

Crush ingredients -carbonated water -sugar/glucose-fructose -citric acid -benzoate -Natural flavor -modified corn starch -Ester gum -sunset yellow  FCF -salt -allura red  

  • These also may help 
  • Title

    Author

    Information (web link, publisher, etc)

    Year

    About crush

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    Soda lovers wiki and bottle 

    https://soda-loverswiki.fandom.com/wiki/Crush

    2025

    About Coke

    The coca cola company

    The Coca Cola Company and bottle 

    https://www.coca-colacompany.com/about-us/history/the-history-of-the-coca-cola-contour-bottle

    2025

    About Mountain dew

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    Wikipedia and bottle 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew

    2025

           

 

 

Data

Coca cola 

Would not dissolve

Mountain dew

Would not dissolve

Crush

Would not dissolve

Observations/Notes: it grew a bit but

There is something in the marshmallows that keep it from dissolving i think in trial 2 I  will have to use a different variable to see if it will dissolve unlike the marshmallows.  

 

Conclusion

 

My theory is that the gelatin was the component that stopped it from dissolving because one time when i was at my friends house me and him were eating jello but he dropped some in soda while he was putting it away and then the next day (24 hours later) he called me and said bro i left jello in my soda


 

I did my research and the only thing i found was soda fluffs witch use marshmallow fluff so i had to use a mix of the soda with some  welch's fruit jelly snacks i had left over from halloween it sat there for days and i now know what happened.the gummies absorbed it and grew just like the marshmallows if you want more proof search up sprite gummy hack. So in conclusion the gelatin was the problem in the experiment 

My question was:how fast does a marshmallow dissolve in soda

The answer to my question is:  no it won’t even dissolve in soda because of the gelatin inside of the marshmallows  

 

My hypothesis was correct because:

 

OR

 

My hypothesis was incorrect because: of the gelatin inside because it won't dissolve in soda 

All in all it was a fail because of the gelatin because gelatin will not dissolve it absorbs the soda that was a key component I forgot while doing the experiment that could have helped before so i conclude that this was a big fail   

 

Citations

Title

Author

Information (web link, publisher, etc)

Year

About crush

Does not show

Soda lovers wiki and bottle 

https://soda-loverswiki.fandom.com/wiki/Crush

2025

About Coke

The coca cola company

The Coca Cola Company and bottle 

https://www.coca-colacompany.com/about-us/history/the-history-of-the-coca-cola-contour-bottle

2025

About Mountain dew

Does not show

Wikipedia and bottle 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew

2025

Acknowledgement

Thank you to the people who helped me Miss Nanji,Miss Olfert, Miss Duncan,Miss Kim,My sister Aneet