You know the worst food for your teeth is not sugar.

Now it is true that sugar does increase bacteria that make more

acids that can erode your teeth, but there's a much worse type of acid that will severely erode your teeth and it doesn't have anything to do with sugar.

Of course, if we talk about fruit juice, like apple juice or orange juice is five times worse than soda for your teeth.

Yeah, interesting. And I'm going to explain why that is in just a minute. Diet soda compared to regular soda. Can you take a guess

what's worse for your teeth? Believe it or not, Diet soda might be worse and I'm going

to explain why that is as well. Number two, candy, the stuff that you

suck on like a lollipop for example, you're constantly exposing your teeth to a lot of

sugar and that could definitely create microbes that make more acid.

Number three, powdered starches. Starches can act just like a sugar and feed these microbes

and create the acids.

And that would be like modified foodstarch or modified cornstarch or multodextrin,

which is in pretty much most junk foods.

And then we just get liquid sugar, as in high fruitous corn syrup drinks, right?

And I'm talking about the ones that you have added sugar.

In this case, you're not chewing, you're just bathing the teeth in just pure sugar. And just if we differentiate

between natural sugars like if you eat fruit versus drink the juice from

fruit, especially if it's pasteurized, there's a big difference.

And then number five, we get into actual sodas with phosphoric acid.

And believe it or not, phosphoric acid is not the worst acid for your teeth. There's another one that's

actually way more dangerous, but phosphoric acid is not good. It's going to leach the

calcium out of your teeth. So here you have a soda with not just liquid candy

...