Coca-Cola's top-secret formula uncovered?

15 Feb 2011

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The top secret formula for making `Coca-Cola', one of the most jealously guarded trade secrets in the world, is out, 125 years after it was originally invented by a medical chemist called John Pemberton, in 1886.

The web site, `Thisamericanlife.org', quoted from a 32-year-old article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution which shows a photograph of a recipe purported to be an exact replica of the Coca-Cola recipe of John Pemberton.

According to the web site, the list of ingredients of Coca-Cola was actually published in a 1979 local newspaper article in Atlanta, Georgia, although it did not attract popular attention at that time.

"Locked in a vault in Atlanta. Supposedly unreplicable. But we think we may have found the original recipe. And to see if the formula actually might be Coke, we made a batch. Or, anyway, we asked the folks at Jones Soda and Sovereign Flavors to whip up some, to see if it tastes like Coke," the web site wrote.

The recipe, according to the web site, is a concoction of the fluid extract of coca, citric acid, caffeine, citrate caffein, sugar, water, lime juice, vanilla, caramel, flavor, alcohol, orange oil, lemon oil, nutmeg oil, corriander oil, neroli oil and cinnamon oil.

The website said since all of these ingredients can be bought online, it would post the full instructions in a day or two.

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