{"id":15747,"date":"2021-07-26T11:02:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T15:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=15747"},"modified":"2021-07-26T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T18:16:48","slug":"first-of-all-let-me-just-say-i-love-the-wall-i-stumbled-onto-it-while-searching-a-completely-silly-question-how-many-licks-to-the-tootsie-roll-center-of-a-tootsie-pop-from-a-childhood-commercial-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/07\/26\/first-of-all-let-me-just-say-i-love-the-wall-i-stumbled-onto-it-while-searching-a-completely-silly-question-how-many-licks-to-the-tootsie-roll-center-of-a-tootsie-pop-from-a-childhood-commercial-i\/","title":{"rendered":"First of all let me just say I love the wall! I stumbled onto it while searching a completely silly question..how many licks to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from a childhood commercial.. I was gonna guess the answer to be 3..but in reading the outcome of so many tests.i have to ask\u2026 Did any of the licking machines have actual saliva in them? I believe our salive has a ph and bacteria that promote digestion and decomposition..seems like that’s a pretty good reason why the actual licks took less time ?? I would love to hear the answer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Much of the published literature is kinda lacking in discussion of details like that. But this 2013 study determined that ph was not as much of a factor as where on the pop the licking happens. https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-tp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from a childhood commercial.. I was gonna guess the answer to be 3..but in reading the outcome of so many tests.i have to ask\u2026 Did any of the licking machines have actual saliva in them? I believe our salive has a ph and bacteria that promote digestion and decomposition..seems like that’s a pretty good reason … <\/p>\n

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