Carbonated soft drinks, also known as pop, can be used for a variety of different things besides drinking. Clear pops such as 7-Up and Sprite can be used to make cut flowers last longer and Coca-Cola can add shine to hair and also clean just about any bathroom surface—just to name a few. These handy alternative uses to pop may encourage you to stockpile them in your pantry, but let's stop and think for a minute. If Coca-Cola can clean car battery terminals because of the high concentration of acid, what are these beverages doing to the inside of your body? Or your health in general?

These science experiment videos using the most popular brands of pop (Pepsi, Coke, Mt. Dew) may have you reaching for water next time you want a drink.

1. Bleach vs. Coke

In this video by the Crazy Russian Hacker, mixing 12 ounces of Coke with a few pours of all-purpose bleach (the video doesn't say, but I would guess the amount of bleach to be two ounces) turns the Coca-Cola almost completely clear. That's right—the once called pop now looks like dirty water. This goes to show just how much dye and processed colors go into making each soft drink.

2. Mountain Dew vs. Mouse

In this experiment done by The Explorer Multimedia Inc, a dead mouse is placed into a small container filled with the green-yellow soft drink everybody knows and loves. After 30 days of sitting in the container filled with Mountain Dew, the mouse completely dissolved into a mushy plasma like substance. All bones, muscles and organs were completely unrecognizable. Are you sure you still want to drink this stuff? Fun fact about Mountain Dew: It was originally created to be mixed with vodka, but consumers liked the taste alone.

3. Boiled Pepsi

In this experiment done by Rajnikant V/s CID Jokes, Pepsi is boiled down until all that if left is a black sludge-y goo that looks like it belongs in a B-rated horror movie. As you watch the video, the captions keep saying that the goo looks and smells like Coal Tar.

For those that don't know, coal tar is used to treat many skin conditions including psoriasis. The substance has such a high chemical composition that the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has sent a "safe" daily exposure limit to 0.1 mg/m³ of coal tar per 8-hour work day.

By the end of the video's experiment, the Pepsi has turned into a solid-as-a-rock black substance.

Pepsi or Coke? At this point, I hope you chose neither.

4. Coca-Cola vs. Milk

In this experiment done by Home Science, a 16-ounce bottle of Coca-Cola is filled up the rest of the way with milk. By the end of the experiment (one hour later), the liquid inside the pop bottle is separated into two very different substances. The top layer resembles cornstarch while the bottom layer honestly looks like diarrhea. It's a chunky, crumbly powder substance that does not resemble milk or coke. Neither of the new substances inside the bottle look like what they did in the beginning of the experiment. Let's say you have a glass of milk with breakfast and then some Coke for lunch. Imagine the chemical reaction going on inside your body. Yikes.