Tech | February 14, 2011 | 33 comments

Coca Cola Recipe Discovered?

source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/8324778/Coca-Cola-recipe-discovered.html

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The ingredients of the drink, founded by John Pemberton, a medicinal pharmacist in 1886, have always been a mystery.
However, Thisamericanlife.org claims to have discovered a list in a photograph in a newspaper article giving the ingredients and exact quantities to make the drink.
The Feb 8 1979 edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a photo of someone holding open a book with a recipe claimed to be an exact replica of Pemberton's.
The recipe reportedly contains the exact measures of all the different oils needed for Coca Cola's secret ingredient, Merchandise 7X.
Despite making up only one per cent of the drink's total formula, Merchandise 7X is though to give the popular soft drink its unique taste.
The official recipe is said to be guarded 24-hours a day in a vault in Atlanta, Georgia.

The 'secret recipe':

Fluid extract of Coca 3 drams USP
Citric acid 3 oz
Caffeine 1oz
Sugar 30 (it is unclear from the markings what quantity is required)
Water 2.5 gal
Lime juice 2 pints 1 qrt
Vanilla 1oz
Caramel 1.5oz or more to colour
7X flavour (use 2oz of flavour to 5 gals syrup):
Alcohol 8oz
Orange oil 20 drops
Lemon oil 30 drops
Nutmeg oil 10 drops
Coriander 5 drops
Neroli 10 drops
Cinnamon 10 drops
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33 comments // Coca Cola Recipe Discovered?

  • arbil333
  • GISchmo
    • 0
      GISchmo  

    • Wow, very hard to believe that the recipe could get out so easily. Coca-cola is sooooooooo much better than other sodas, perhaps not for long :(

    • 1 year ago
  • Slfriend79
  • timetide
  • ecoalex
  • JanforGore
    • 0
      JanforGore  

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVifFHpJycc

      Coca Cola presents a "sweet" image, but evidence suggests somethiing more sinister. I have been boycotting them for years and will continue to do so. This is the beginning segment of The Coca Cola Case in nine parts. It's an eye opener for those who think Coca Cola is just a sweet little soda company with nice songs and drinks in classic bottles. They are a multi-national conglomerate owning juices, water, soda, and a huge enough marketshare of products globally that they are prepared to do anything to preserve it. Just like Monsanto, Chevron and so many other corporations that take business abroad thinking they can escape culpability for any crimes committed under their names.

    • 1 year ago
  • Warren_Merrill
  • EmperorThan
  • remanns
    • 0
      remanns  

    • note ; apparently the "diet" formula for the concoction is a fairly effective spermicide. So it has THAT going for it !

    • 1 year ago
  • remanns
  • remanns
  • remanns
  • UtopianSky
    • 0
      UtopianSky  

    • I seriously doubt those wonderful natural ingredients are the same ones they use now.

      I bet the modern recipe looks more like a molecular diagram.

      These ingredients might be a nice basis for a small "organic soda" company to create something though.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
    • +3
      JanforGore  

    • You forgot the millions of gallons of water they suck out of acquifers globally, and the pesticides that wind up in it particularly in India because there are no regulations to how they do business. Coca cola is a despicable company.

      http://killercoke.org/

      Excerpt:
      "India

      Of the 200 countries where Coca-Cola is sold, India reportedly has the fastest-growing market, but the adverse environmental impacts of its operations there have subjected The Coca-Cola Co. and its local bottlers to a firestorm of criticism and protest. There has been a growing outcry against Coca-Cola's production practices throughout India, which are draining out vast amounts of public groundwater and turning farming communities into virtual deserts. Suicide rates among Indian farmers whose livelihoods are being destroyed are growing at an alarming rate. Every day for years there has been some form of protest, from large demonstrations to small vigils, against Coca-Cola's abuses in India.

      One target of protest has been the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Plachimada, Kerala, which has remained shut down since March 2004 as a result of the community-led campaign in Plachimada challenging Coca-Cola's abuse of water resources.
      The International Environmental Law Research Centre issued a report in 2007 that stated, in part, "The deterioration of groundwater in quality and quantity and the consequential public health problems and the destruction of the agricultural economy are the main problems identified in Plachimada. The activity of The Coca Cola Company has caused or contributed a great deal to these problems...The availability of good quality water for drinking purposes and agriculture has been affected dangerously due to the activity of the Company. Apart from that, the Company had also polluted the agricultural lands by depositing the hazardous wastes. All these points to the gross violation of the basic human rights, that is, the right to life, right to livelihood and the violation of the pollution control laws."

      In 2009, the government of Kerala set up the High Power Committee to Assess the Extent of Damages Caused by the Coca-Cola Plant at Plachimada, India, which "recommended that Coca-Cola be held liable for Indian Rupees 216 crore (US$ 48 million) for damages caused as a result of the company's bottling operations in Plachimada."

      Read more about Coca-Cola's crimes in India.

    • 1 year ago
  • WisconsinNorm
    • 0
      WisconsinNorm  
    • JanforGore:

      When you stand in front of Niagara Falls, the water falling over it between 3 and 4 seconds is the present historical volume of Coca-Cola bottled-it may be between 4-5 seconds now, for I heard this about two years ago. Now I was a little confused about that statistic. Does that mean only the water placed into bottles and distributed by the corporation or the amount of water also utilized when diluting/mixing their syrups...Probably the "syrup water" is not included. So I guess the real issue is water. Should Coca-Cola pipeline water out of Lake Michigan to Atlanta prior to it going over Niagara Falls and leave the underground aquifers alone? Vexing issue.

    • 1 year ago
  • noxidereus
  • royulery
    • +1
      royulery  

    • my dad used to deliver original coke from the red light town near san louis obispo to hearst castle. that isn't the formula. the real formula is listed in
      'big secrets", the 2 ingredients not listed are the cola nut and cocaine leaf. the cola nut is long gone and the modern replacement is the combination of; vanilla, orange and cinnamon (artificial of course).

      my dad said that you couldn't feel the small amount of cocaine for the heavy caffeine of the cola nut, it made you talk faster.

    • 1 year ago
  • btodder
    • 0
      btodder  

    • Coca, coca, coca cola
      yayo bought me everythang
      Yulla, yulla, baking soda "cocaine is my girlfriend" boila, boila, boilin water
      damn I gotta forced game" snorta, snorta make an offer
      no prob I could cook it for ya...

      -the immortal words of Gucci Mane

    • 1 year ago
  • SpencerTreeGarden
  • Seauvan
    • +3
      Seauvan  

    • You'll know this recipe is authentic if Coca-Cola declares JIHAD (and I do mean JIHAD in all capital letters!) on the people responsible for putting this out on the Internet.

    • 1 year ago
  • reactionforce
  • remanns
  • randallr01
  • TheAmericanPatriot
  • arbil333
  • Mr_Brainwash
  • coolplanet
    • 0
      coolplanet  

    • Lavender essential oil has long been suspected to be the secret ingredient.
      And who can forget the cocaine from whence Coca Cola's name was derived?
      Hey, conduct an experiment by placing a copper penny in a cup of Coke overnight. It's fully disolved in the morning.
      I've never liked soda pop, particularly Coca Cola.

    • 1 year ago
  • alexandrek
  • coolplanet
  • alexandrek
  • coolplanet
    • 0
      coolplanet  
    • alexandrek:

      I proudly smoke American Spirit Perique Cajun blend, aged in old oak whiskey barrels.
      Tried amanita muscaria mushrooms a few times in my youth. Had flashbacks of past lives but it was probably just a near death experience.
      I never liked tuna. Wild salmon and rainbow trout are the only fish i occasionally enjoy.

    • 1 year ago
  • floydyboy
  • remanns
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