A number of different Mentos flavors

Mentos is a popular brand of mints sold in many markets across the world by the Perfetti Van Melle Corporation. This article is about the Candy. See Mint (disambiguation for other meanings Perfetti Van Melle is a European global manufacturer of Confectionery and gum. Mentos was first produced in the Netherlands during the 1950s. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive The mints are small oblate spheroids, with a slightly hard exterior and a soft, chewy interior. An oblate Spheroid is a rotationally symmetric Ellipsoid having a polar axis shorter than the diameter of the equatorial circle whose plane They are sold in rolls which typically contain 14 candies, although the new "Sour Mix" flavor contains only 11. Certain flavors are sold in boxes in the United States and the United Kingdom, and the rolls in three and six-packs. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The slogan of Mentos is "the freshmaker". Most Mentos packages describe the candy as "chewy dragées". thumb|Another form of dragée „Liebesperlen“ sweets (love pearls A dragée (dræˈʒeɪ dra-ZHAY from Greek tragêmata "sweets treats" The typical Mentos roll is approximately 3/4-inch in diameter, 6/16-inches tall and 1. 3 ounces.

Flavors

Mentos is available in several flavors, the most common being mint and mixed fruit, and also an assortment of orange, strawberry, and lemon. This article is about the Candy. See Mint (disambiguation for other meanings An orange —specifically the sweet orange —is the Citrus fruit Citrus sinensis ( syn Garden strawberries are a common variety of strawberry cultivated worldwide The lemon ( Citrus × limon) is a hybrid in cultivated wild plants Mentos first appeared as a liquorice-flavored candy which can still be purchased in the Netherlands as "Drop Mentos". Liquorice (UK or licorice (US (see spelling differences;, or) is the root of Glycyrrhiza glabra, from which a sweet flavour can be extracted The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands New flavors were initially test-marketed in the Netherlands and throughout Europe, but more recently, most flavors are available worldwide.

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Other flavors include green apple, cinnamon, strawberry, mixed fruit (which contains a mix of cherry, strawberry, orange, and lemon flavors), grape, wintergreen, raisin, grapefruit, peach, spearmint, strawberry yogurt, lemon yogurt, pineapple (pine fresh), red apple, fresh cola, cassis (tart grape), red orange, currant and two versions of black licorice flavored Mentos. Granny Smith, or green apple, is a tip-bearing Apple Cultivar. Cinnamon ( Cinnamomum verum, synonym C zeylanicum) is a small Evergreen Tree 10–15 metres (32 Garden strawberries are a common variety of strawberry cultivated worldwide For the Tokyo University supercomputer see Gravity Pipe. GRAPE, or GRA phics P rogramming E nvironment is Wintergreen is a group of plants Wintergreen once commonly referred to Plants that continue Photosynthesis (remain Green) throughout the Winter Raisins are dried Grapes They are produced in many regions of the world such as the United States, Australia, Chile, The grapefruit is a subtropical Citrus Tree grown for its Fruit which was originally named the "forbidden fruit " of Barbados The peach ( Prunus persica) is a species of Prunus native to China that bears an edible juicy fruit also called a peach Yoghurt, yogurt, yoghourt, youghurt or yogourt (see spelling below is a Liquorice candy ( licorice in American English) is flavored with the Extract of the roots of the Liquorice plant and usually Anise Two varieties of the mint flavor, known as "Mentos Strong" and "Air action Mentos" are sold in the Netherlands. Mentha ( mint) is a Genus of about 25 Species (and many hundreds of varieties) of Flowering plants in the family Two varieties of the mint flavor are also sold in China, known as "Mint" and "Strong Mint". This article is about the Candy. See Mint (disambiguation for other meanings Chocolate Mentos were produced in 1989, but the flavor was discontinued. Chocolate ( pronounced or /-ˈələt/ comprises a number of raw and processed foods that are produced from the seed of the tropical Cacao tree Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) In 2006, the citrus mango flavor was introduced to the Japanese market. In the Philippines, a "Dalandan Fresh" variant is available. The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP A new product line, Mentos Sours, have recently become available in the United States, featuring Watermelon, Green Apple, and Lemon flavors. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

Mentos gum is also available in the Netherlands, Canada, Brazil, Turkey, and recently, the United States in blisters and bottles, both in three different flavors. Also available in the Netherlands are Mentos Gum Pocket Bottles in six different flavors, including Juice Blast Green Apple Raspberry, and gum in the shape of cubes (sold in four different flavors, one of which is dragon fruit).

Mentos Sugar Free

In August 2005, Mentos began running TV ads announcing a new sugar-free variety of the candy which comes in "mixed berries" and "cool mint" flavors sweetened with Splenda. PortalCurrent events News collections and sources WikipediaNews collections and sources. Sucralose is an artificial sweetener originally sold under the trade name Splenda, and now also supplied as SucraPlus. The Mentos brand has been very productive in sales and has made over one billion dollars. In the Netherlands the flavors mint, licorice and fruit are also available in the sugar-free variety.

Australian varieties of Mentos are Mint, Fruit, Strong Mint, Berry Mix, Spearmint, Grape and Sour Mix. Mentos Gum is also available in Peppermint, Spearmint and Orangemint.

"Mentos Teens" is available in Brazil and the rest of Latin-America. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld They come in a rectangular box. The candy is basically miniature Mentos roughly the size of Skittles, and they come in mixed flavors: white grape (green), lemon (yellow), strawberry (pink), orange (orange), raspberry (blue), and cherry (red). In the Netherlands Mini Mentos Fruitmix is sold, which contains the flavors orange, lemon, strawberry and apple.

During the World Cup, a Brazilian team Mentos was released in Brazil to support the national team. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld The candy was green and yellow.

In some countries, the Mentos Ice candy can be bought in flavors such as, cherry (red), green apple (green) and grape (purple). This article is about the Cherry berry also classified as fruit for the ornamental tree See Cherry Blossom. Granny Smith, or green apple, is a tip-bearing Apple Cultivar. For the Tokyo University supercomputer see Gravity Pipe. GRAPE, or GRA phics P rogramming E nvironment is

Commercials

Part of Mentos' popularity can be attributed to its campy commercials, which debuted in late 1991 on American television. A television advertisement or television commercial (often just commercial or advert (US or ad (UK is a span of television programming produced In the commercials, individuals facing various day-to-day dilemmas consume Mentos and are subsequently inspired to solve their problems at hand in a creative, often-humorous fashion.

Dilemmas presented included a woman who breaks her shoe-heel and a man who gets paint on his new business suit after sitting down on a freshly-painted bench. A heel is the projection at the back of a Shoe which rests below the heel bone. Paint is any Liquid, liquifiable or mastic composition which after application to a substrate in a thin layer is converted to an opaque Solid For metonymic and other uses see Bench (metonymy and Bench A bench is a piece of Furniture, which mostly offersseveral persons After consuming a Mentos, the female character proceeds to break off the heel to her other nondamaged shoe, and the man rolls around on the still-wet bench, creating a pinstripe pattern on his suit. Pin striping (pinstriping is the application of a very thin line of Paint or other material called a pin stripe, and is generally used for decoration These unusual behaviors are typically witnessed by nearby, sometimes antagonistic characters, and a roll of Mentos is boisterously displayed by the commercial's respective protagonist to the observer as an explanation for their actions.

Many North American viewers believed that the 1990s commercials, with their unfamiliar and rather naive style, had been imported—perhaps from Northern Europe, the candy's home.

Competing brands

• A similar candy in the U.S., called "Chewz", is manufactured by Lance, Inc. Candy, specifically sugar candy, is a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water to which a variety of flavorings and colorants is added The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Chewz are a Mentos -like Candy with a hard shell and a soft chewy interior that is made by Lance Inc Mentos fans have jokingly referred to this as the "anti-Mentos".
• Trebor Softmints and Softfruits, introduced in 1981 and sold in the UK and Ireland by Cadbury-Schweppes are also similar to Mentos, although with softer exterior coatings. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Cadbury plc () is a Confectionery and Beverage

Mentos and soft drink reaction

Main article: Diet Coke and Mentos eruption

A Diet Coke bottle shortly after Mentos was dropped into it

First popularized by Steve Spangler on 9News in 2005, which resulted in Internet coverage of the incident,^[1] a Mentos mint expedites a rapid release of carbon dioxide when dropped into a carbonated liquid, such as a soft drink, because of its high surface tension. Diet Coke and Mentos Eruption (also known as a Mentos eruption or a soda geyser) is a reaction of Diet Coke and mint Mentos candies Diet Coke (formally known as Diet Coca-Cola) is a Sugar -free Soft drink produced and distributed by The Coca-Cola Company. Steve Spangler is an author professional speaker Emmy Award winner listed in the Time 100, science teacher founder of two companies toy maker and a trained magician KUSA-TV, channel 9 is an NBC -affiliated Television station in Denver Colorado. Soft drink is a beverage that does not contain Alcohol. Carbonated soft drinks are commonly known as soda soda pop pop, or For the work of fiction see Surface Tension (short story. Surface tension is a property of the surface of a Liquid that causes it to Also, the small dents in the surface of the candy provide a great site for nucleation, which is how the carbon dioxide molecules can escape so rapidly. Nucleation is the onset of a Phase transition in a small region The escaping bubbles quickly turn into a raging foam, and the pressure can build dramatically in a restricted container such as a two-liter bottle.

As explained on an episode of MythBusters (Episode 57, Season 4; "Mentos and Soda," aired on August 9, 2006), diet sodas (particularly colas due to their visible brown color) are most commonly used for the experiment. MythBusters is a Popular science Television program produced by Australian firm Beyond Television Productions originally for the MythBusters also found out that wax coated Mentos don't cause that reaction, which is not entirely true. Though their reactions are not on the same scale, they are still reactions. People are often under the illusion that aspartame causes the reaction—this is only partly true; the MythBusters have shown aspartame to be one of many reactive components and/or catalysts in both the soda and the Mentos. Catalysis is the process in which the rate of a Chemical reaction is increased by means of a Chemical substance known as a catalyst Diet colas are also preferred because they do not contain large amounts of sugar like regular colas. Sugar molecules help keep the carbon dioxide in solution, slowing the reaction. Artificial sweeteners in diet colas are much sweeter per molecule, and so make up a smaller proportion of the solution and allow a faster reaction; they also enhance the reaction.

The resulting geyser (popularly known as a Diet Coke and Mentos eruption) can shoot as high as 6 meters (20 feet). Diet Coke and Mentos Eruption (also known as a Mentos eruption or a soda geyser) is a reaction of Diet Coke and mint Mentos candies The record, reached in MythBusters, was over 29 feet with the use of a nozzle.

On July 10th, 2007, a record number Mentos-and-Diet Coke geysers, 791, were set off in Flower Mound, Texas by employees of Books Are Fun and the company's independent representatives. Flower Mound is a town in Dallas, Denton, and Tarrant counties in the U Guinness World Records had a representative in attendance, who confirmed the feat. Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records (and in previous U

On July 15th, 2007, a new world record was set in van Melle's hometown of Breda, The Netherlands in which 850 people set off Mentos-and-Diet Coke geysers at the same time. Breda ( is a Municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Everyone put five pieces of Mentos in the Coke at the same time producing geysers of four to five meters high. The record will be included in the Guinness World Records. Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records (and in previous U

Besides making geysers with cola and Mentos, the bottles can also be fired as rockets by unscrewing the lid until a thin stream shoots and slamming horizontally into the ground, creating enough pressure on impact to blast the lid off and launch the bottle in the opposite direction. These work best when the bottle is shaken for about 20 seconds vigorously after quickly putting in the Mentos. It takes a few practices to work out how much to twist the lid off (usually approximately one full turn) but can travel large distances when this technique has been perfected (often up to 20ft high and between 40–70ft horizontally).

In November, 2006, the Urban Legends Reference Pages examined the rumors of people dying from eating Mentos and drinking cola. Snopes (ˈsnoʊps also known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a Web site that is the most widely-known resource for validating or debunking Urban legends Their research found that while eating Mentos and drinking cola can result in people regurgitating the foamy result (as evidenced by numerous online videos), no actual news accounts exist of anyone dying from it. ^[2]

On the 23rd of April, 2008, students in the Belgian city of Leuven set a new world record, simultaneously launching 1,360 Mentos geysers^[3]. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those Leuven ( French: Louvain, often used in English German: Löwen) is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the

The Foo Fighters

The popular rock band the Foo Fighters used mentos as a theme and inspiration in their 1995 video, "Big Me". Foo Fighters is an American Alternative rock and Post-grunge band formed by singer/guitarist Dave Grohl in 1995 Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 " Big Me " is the fifth single released in 1996 by the Foo Fighters from their self-titled debut album Foo Fighters. As a consequence, fans of the band began pelting them with mentos at concerts whenever the song "Big Me" was played. Dave Grohl said "Those things hit pretty hard". The Foo Fighters thus have ceased to perform this song live, until their recent Echoes tour.

References

External links

• Official Mentos website
• Mentos Helpline, a new campaign in India
• Nonofficial Mentos FAQ
• Mentos commercial filmography