“After recently hearing a health professional refer to soda as ’the cigarettes of our generation,' I decided to do an experiment to show what’s in soft drinks after the water is boiled away—in other words, dehydrating the hydrator,” wrote Henry Hargreaves in an email. “Once boiled, I took each remaining substance and poured it into a lollipop mold. After all, I figure that’s what you’re essentially getting: candy in costume as a soft drink.”
Hargreaves documented the process in the video above, and the results are eye-opening.
This article was originally published on www.takepart.com, on Aug 19, 2015. Read the complete article here.
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