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Uncategorized Thursday, November 17th 2011 at 4:24 pm

Sour Candy Not Much Better For Your Teeth Than Battery Acid

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Acid isn’t very good for your teeth. Go figure. But you never cover your teeth in acid. Or do you? The Minnesota Dental Association has released a list of popular sour candies and their acidities, showing how many of them can damage teeth. Spoiler: All of them. But blah blah blah, dental health. Boring, right? Not if you throw in battery acid as a point of comparison. Those dentists know how to get some attention. Keep in mind, acidity is measured on the ph scale, which is logarithmic, meaning that a ph score of 2.0 is 10 times more acidic than something with a score of 3.0. It gets more acidic as you go down. Battery acid is a 1.0. Wonka Fun Dip power? 1.8.

Check out the full, terrifying list below.

(Northwest Dentistry via kottke)

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  • Jennifer Simmons

    Maybe that’s part of the reason I have such weak ass teeth. I used to eat sour candy like it was cool. 

  • http://smudgethefirst.tumblr.com Smudge

    The pH scale is logarithmic. Not that acidic food isn’t bad for your teeth… it’s just MUCH better for them than battery acid. Nearly 100x better by that scale, which ignores the fact that sulfuric acid is a strong mineral acid and citric acid is a weak organic acid. (pH is not the same as corrosivity, though they correlate).

  • http://hostpapacoupon.co/ Papa

    Wow, hard to believe but you have to wonder how acidic sour candies are.

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    But blah blah blah, dental health. Boring, right? Not if you throw in battery acid as a point of comparison.  

  • Anonymous

    Relative H+ concentration, if you use the real pH of battery acid, which is 0:

    Water 1
    Coffee 100
    Spree 10,000
    Battery Acid 10,000,000

  • Chees1234

    No one really cares about there teeth. If the food is good, who cares about the effect of it.

  • liam farley

    Is the acid what causes your teeth to feel sensitive, I’ve eaten like 4 packs of some sour gumballs in the past 3 days, and my front teeth are a lot more sensitive, is this permanent or just temporary like the weakness of teeth after eating limes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/allison.perkins.125 Allison Perkins

    some of you just cant except the truth or maybe yall cant handle it but yes sour candy is bad for you like battery acid but truth is why would candy companies even make these candies when the now the danger of these acids they make me think that their so worried about making as much money as possible that they dont even care that its hurting the lives of people