Coca Cola RecipePhoto:Shutterstock«I'm not kidding. One of the best-kept secrets on the planet is sitting right in front of me, and I'm going to read it to you,» he delighted his listeners on air. The host got his hands on photographs of the handwritten recipe for the famous soda, published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on February 8, 1979. The fact is that the Coca-Cola company was founded in the 1880s by John Pemberton, who was a pharmacist. Previously, it was sold in pharmacies as a medicine. In addition, the host compared the formula he found with the one published in his book by writer Mark Pendergrast, and they turned out to be the same. So, the long-awaited recipe: citric acid, caffeine, sugar, water, lime juice, vanilla, caramel, alcohol, orange oil, lemon oil, nutmeg oil, coriander, cinnamon and orange essence. However, do not rush to the store for ingredients. They tried to make a drink according to this recipe at the Jones Soda Co. plant in Seattle: you can drink it, but not Coca-Cola, something is missing. It turned out that the whole thing is in another ingredient that is difficult to get, namely, a liquid extract from the leaves of the coca bush, from which all the cocaine is squeezed. Only the Coca-Cola Company has permission to use the forbidden bushes. The spokeswoman for the concern hastened to upset everyone and said that the coca bush will not help either. "Many have tried to discover our secret recipe. Let them try, there is only one Coca-Cola left. And what they found, "is not that recipe," she assures. By the way, the consumer society recently came out in favor of banning Coca-Cola Light, which, among other things, contains an extremely harmful additive.
