Mentos And Soda Geyser

Chemistry Level 2

A mint-flavored mentos makes a geyser 5 meters high and a fruit-flavored mentos makes a geyser 2 meters high when the two candies are put into identical bottles of soda under identical experimental conditions. What is the most reasonable hypothesis to explain the difference?

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