When did the Coca-Cola company stop putting a cocaine derivative in the cola?

Question

Does the cola formula differ in the individual countries where Coke is made

Answer 1

No cocaine was ever added to Coca-cola. Coca Cola in Central and South American countries and in Asia still use cane sugar as a sweetener, whereas high fructose corn syrup is used in the US. Mexican Coke is closest to that that I remember as a kid (prior to new Coke, then the re-formulated Coke Classic).

Answer 2

Coca-Cola has not used Cocaine since the early 1900's. As far as any changes to the formula they now use High Fructose Corn Syrup instead of sugar. Some countries still have Coca-Cola with real sugar though.

Answer 3

"A spokesperson from Atlanta for Coca Cola denied that the company does not now use, and has never used, cocaine". Stephen Cherniske M.S. in Caffeine Blues says "In 1886, a pharmacist named John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola. The word cola was derived from kola nut, the name of the source plant for one of the flavors. The only problem is, we now know that caffeine is also an addictive drug" . They then also had to add enough sugar to disguise the bitter taste of the caffeine

Answer 4

The ingredients of the drink is a closely guarded secret.
Here is an excerpt from Wilkepedia;
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Coca-Cola was invented in Columbus, Georgia, by John S. Pemberton, originally as a cocawine called Pemberton's French Wine Coca. He was inspired by the formidable success of European Angelo Mariani's cocawine, Vin Mariani.

In 1885, after Coca-Cola moved, when Atlanta and Fulton County passed Prohibition legislation, Pemberton responded by developing Coca-Cola, essentially a carbonated, non-alcoholic version of French Wine Cola. The beverage was named Coca-Cola because originally, the stimulant mixed in the beverage was coca leaves from South America. In addition, the drink was flavored using kola (Cola) nuts, the beverage's source of caffeine. Pemberton called for 5 ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup, a significant dose, whereas in 1891 Candler claimed his formula (altered extensively from Pemberton's original) contained only a tenth of this amount. Favorable to popular belief, Coca-Cola did actually contain cocaine at one point per se, which is a highly refined extract of coca leaves and was always far too expensive to use in a mass-market beverage. [1] [2] However, as cocaine is one of numerous alkaloids present in the coca leaf, it was nevertheless present in the drink. Today, the flavoring is still done with kola nuts and the coca leaf; however, the coca leaves used today are "spent" leaves - the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process - however, one cannot extract cocaine out of the leaf at a molecular level; therefore, the drink still contains trace amounts of the stimulant. In the United States, there is only one plant in New Jersey authorized by the Federal Government to grow the coca plant for Coca-Cola syrup manufacture.
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Answer 5

They quit using it because it was addictive.
People figured out there was a narcotic in it & some abused it to the extreme.
I believe the current formula is used worldwide.

Answer 6

i remember my dad used to say the same thing, think it was like the late 70"s