Apparently its still a closely guarded secret, I mean in today's day and age, how hard could it be to find out by lab tests?
Its probably not love.
2006-07-05 18:59:08 · 16 answers · asked by Sunny D 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
I'm sure competitors or the curious have run the lab tests, but bootlegging the stuff would have severe legal repercussions. I've heard a few bizarre rumors about the ingredients, some of which sound unlikely, and others that sound like they could get the legal department of Coca Cola corporation on your case in a New York minute! Nice recipe, but they're not giving it out. If you ask me, I'd say it's a tasty and innocuous mixture of lemon or lime juice, sugar or sweetener, and various spices, because I worked on it one day and tried various combinations, and that one tasted kind of like a batch of flat, off-brand cola. I had the definite feeling that, if I had a few weeks to work on it, and could afford to buy and waste a bunch of carbonated water, I could independently invent a pretty good store-brand cola drink, but Dollar General already has some in stock. The inventor of Coca Cola did it while working at the soda counter of a drug store, according to one story I read. The only ones that know how to make it are certain people at Coca Cola. I'm too ethical to suggest that you make friends with them, spike their Cokes with vodka, and pry the information out of them, but, if you do, I'll pay you ten dollars for the recipe. Well, perhaps, as with sex, the partaker's abiding curiosity enhances the enjoyment,
2006-07-05 19:27:35 · answer #1 · answered by John (Thurb) McVey 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Somebody just went to jail for stealing the formula. Using lab tests, though inconclusive, revealed that the secret ingredient is probably ginger. Other than that all colas have approximately the same stuff in them.
2006-07-05 19:05:54 · answer #2 · answered by gwydiontinker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ingredients:
1 oz caffeine citrate
3 oz citric acid
1 fl oz extract vanilla
1 qt lime juice
2½ oz flavoring
30 lb (14 kg) sugar
4 fl oz fluid extract of coca (decocainized flavor essence of the coca leaf)
2½ gal water
Caramel sufficient
Flavoring:
80 Oil orange
40 Oil cinnamon
120 Oil lemon
20 Oil coriander
40 Oil nutmeg
40 Oil neroli
1 qt alcohol
2006-07-05 19:09:51 · answer #3 · answered by Joey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Coca Cola first got started, they would actually put cocain in their beverage!!! After it became so addictive, a bill was passed saying that companies could not have addictive drugs in their products.. I think it was callled the food safety bill.. Think that's weird enough??? The color of the intoxicating drink used to be green!!!!!
2006-07-05 19:06:22 · answer #4 · answered by Abner G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
since there was just a news story about the theft of coca cola secret recipe, you must be a cop looking for suspects.
anybody who answers correctly will get a visit from the gestapo, right?
2006-07-05 20:01:18 · answer #5 · answered by virtualscientist01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Really, Coca Cola is a "brain and nerve tonic"... or so Guinness says.
2006-07-05 19:08:54 · answer #6 · answered by decblackpsalm 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aishwarya
2006-07-05 19:06:46 · answer #7 · answered by Rohit C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is one part coca and one part cola. Mix carefully, shaking may cause it to fizz.
2006-07-05 19:02:33 · answer #8 · answered by Raynanne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sshhhhhshshshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...its a secret...
2006-07-05 19:03:37 · answer #9 · answered by Deep 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
used to be cocaine , but when half or more of america ect was addicted they had to change thier formula exscluding cocaine what it is now i do not know.
maybe you could go to www.historyofcocacola.com.
i hope this helps!
2006-07-05 19:06:57 · answer #10 · answered by k walker 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋