Turning plastic gloves into grape soda

Summary by Krater

The creator extracts phthalate ester from vinyl gloves through a multi-step chemical process to synthesize methyl anthranilate, a common grape flavoring, and uses it to make homemade grape soda.

From the video

Answers: How do you make grape soda from vinyl gloves?

• phthalate ester extraction
• chemical transformation of vinyl gloves
• synthesis of methyl anthranilate
• grape flavor chemistry
• homemade grape soda formulation

Ingredients

• 90 vinyl gloves
• 99% isopropyl alcohol
• 25 g sodium hydroxide drain cleaner
• 300 ml water
• 50 ml concentrated hydrochloric acid
• 12 g urea
• 235 ml bleach
• 3% hydrogen peroxide
• saturated sodium carbonate
• dichloromethane
• saturated sodium chloride solution
• anhydrous sodium sulfate
• 75 ml methanol
• concentrated sulfuric acid
• 55 g sugar
• 1.1 g citric acid
• 0.1 g ascorbic acid
• red food dye
• blue food dye

What it concludes

• Phthalate esters extracted from vinyl gloves can be chemically transformed into methyl anthranilate to create grape flavoring.
• The synthesized methyl anthranilate successfully produced a beverage that tastes and smells like grape soda, albeit with an off-putting musty note due to impurities and lack of blending with other flavor compounds.