Pop Rocks Candy

Are you familiar enough with POP ROCKS CANDY?

Or have you ever try a very cool candy that will 'POP POP POP' when you put them in your mouth?

Can you imagine how interesting that a tiny EXPLOSION happen in your mouth? 

Firstly,let’s watch a short Pop Rock Candy’s commercial:

What are Pop Rocks actually?

Pop Rocks is a carbonated candy with ingredients including sugar, lactose (milk sugar), corn syrup, and flavouring. It is different from typical hard candy which it creates a fizzy reaction when it dissolves in the mouth.  It has been gasified with carbon dioxide by using a patented process.

The Pop Rocks Urban Legend

You are likely to have heard about the urban legend if you know Pop Rocks.                                           

There was a rumour: Drinking cola after eating Pop Rocks would cause a person’s stomach to explode.

This is caused by the false assumption that Pop Rocks contain an acid or base mixture (such as baking soda and vinegar) that will produces large volumes of gas when mixed through saliva and chewing process.

MIKEY

A child named Mikey from the Life cereal commercials involved in one of these myths. Mikey was rumoured to have died after eating a Pop Rocks with cola. This rumour is not true and the actor John Gilchrist, who played Mikey, is alive.

Well, Steve and Mark revealed the myth of eating Pop Rocks and drinking soda.                                    

Check it out through this video:

How are Pop Rocks candy made?

Ingredients needed: Sugar, lactose, corn syrup, water, artificial colours and flavours.

1. Heat the ingredients together and boil the mixture to drive off all of the water. 

2. Mix the sugar mixture with carbon dioxide gas at about 600 pounds per square inch (psi).

3. Shatter the candy which each containing bubbles of high pressurized gas into small pieces once it cools.

4. The carbon dioxide was now trapped in each shard. (examine the tiny bubbles that trapped with carbon dioxide using a magnifying glass)

When you place Pop Rocks candy in your mouth, coming into contact with saliva, the candy breaks and dissolves. This allows the pressurized carbon dioxide to escape.

Hence, resulting in a POPPING and SIZZLING sound and leaving a slight tingling sensation!!