The Food Kid Investigates-Why We Shouldn't Drink Coca Cola

Hello Readers!
It's a new year so its time for a new start and therefore its time for a new section-The Food Kid investigates.

For my 1st investigation I decided to keep it simple-boiling 500ml of full fat cocoa cola.
To be honest I wish I never had as the results are shocking.

I can honestly say that I have only ever drunk cocoa cola once in my life and hated the taste so will never do it again. Nobody in my family likes cocoa cola so my mum buys one bottle a year at Christmas for when my family come around and that's it. So, now the Christmas season has ended I decided to use some of the leftover coke for my investigation.

I boiled 500ml of full fat cocoa cola and saw (to my horror) that when all of the water is evaporated from the drink the carbon dioxide (the bubbles) began to evaporate as well. This stinks everything out in your whole house, don't do it.

Then it gets worse as the coke starts to become like syrup, the coke has now become a sticky, black, revolting mess that I wouldn't feed to a rat-yes it was that bad.

As the experiment continues it gets even worse as the syrup becomes a sort of mutant fizzing caramel that had begun to look like some kind of deadly poison so I finally decided to remove the pan from the heat. The sugar set and became rock solid and stuck to the pan-just like a caramel would.

My message to you is when you see the amount of caramelly substance (molten sugar) there was left in that pan you'd realise just how bad for you cocoa cola is for you and hopefully think twice before drinking any more.

If you don't believe anything that I say see for yourself below.

Just a quick reminder that the Confectionary and Baking with The Food Kid booklet is available by emailing thefoodkid@chef.net any time.

Thanks for reading!