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Coca-Cola formula, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (in english).
Only a few people at The Coca-Cola Company know the current,
authentic Coca-Cola formula, but that hasn't dissuaded amateur
sleuths from trying to concoct or reverse-engineer its
production process and ingredients. The century-old mystery
surrounding this secret formula is the subject of books,
speculation and marketing lore.
Recipes for other soft drinks and products – Pepsi-Cola,
KFC chicken and the 'special sauce' in the McDonalds Big Mac,
for example – are also closely-guarded trade secrets,
but the Coke formula certainly attracts the most attention.
Alleged Coca-Cola syrup recipes vary greatly and The Coca-Cola
Company reluctantly admits the formula has changed over
the decades. Published accounts say it contains or once
contained sugar, caramel, caffeine, phosphoric acid, coca leaf
and cola nut extract, lime juice or oil, flavoring mixture,
vanilla and originally glycerin (but not any more).
Coke spokespersons consistently claim all published recipes
are incorrect.
The following are some of the alleged recipes for the syrup.
PURPORTED SECRET RECIPE ONE
This recipe is attributed to a sheet of paper found in an old
formulary book owned by Coca-Cola inventor, John S. Pemberton,
just before his death:
1 oz. Citrate Caffeine
3 oz. Citric Acid
1 oz. Extract Vanilla
1 Qt. Lime Juice
2 1/2 oz. Flavoring
30 lbs. Sugar
4 oz. fluid extract of Coca
(decocainized flavor essence
of the coca leaf)
2 1/2 gal. Water
Caramel sufficient
80 Oil Orange
40 Oil Cinnamon
120 Oil Lemon
20 Oil Coriander
40 Oil Nutmeg
40 Oil Neroli
1 Qt. Alcohol
"Mix Caffeine Acid and Lime Juice in 1 quart boiling water
add vanilla and flavoring when cool. Let stand for 24 hours.
Flavoring is likely a mixture orange oil, lemon, nutmeg oil,
cinnamon oil, coriander oil, neroli oil and 1 quart of alcohol."
This recipe does not specify when sugar, coca, caramel or
the rest of the water are added.
PURPORTED SECRET RECIPE TWO
ATTRIBUTED TO PHARMACIST JOHN REED
30 pounds of sugar
2 gallons of water
2 pints of lime juice
4 ounces of citrate of caffeine
2 ounces of citric acid
1 ounce of extract of vanilla
6 drams (3/4 ounce) of fluid extract of cola
6 drams of fluid extract of coca.
PURPORTED SECRET RECIPE THREE
From "Food Flavorings: Composition, Manufacture and Use" (Second Edition), 1968, by Joseph Merory (AVI Publishing Company, Inc., Westport, CT)
Makes one gallon of syrup.
"Mix 2,400 grams of sugar with
just enough water to dissolve (high-fructose corn syrup may
be substituted for half the sugar).
Add 37 grams of caramel,
3.1 grams of caffeine,
and 11 grams of phosphoric acid.
Extract the cocaine from 1.1 grams of coca leaf (Truxillo
growth of coca preferred) with toluol; discard the cocaine
extract. Soak the coca leaves and kola nuts (both finely
powdered; 0.37 gram of kola nuts) in 22 grams of 20 percent
alcohol.
California white wine fortified to 20 percent
strength was used as the soaking solution circa 1909, but
Coca-Cola may have switched to a simple water/alcohol
mixture.
After soaking, discard the coca and kola and add
the liquid to the syrup.
Add 30 grams of lime juice
(a former ingredient, evidently, that Coca-Cola now denies)
or a substitute such as a water solution of citric acid and
sodium citrate at lime-juice strength.
Mix together 0.88 gram
of lemon oil, 0.47 gram of orange oil, 0.20 gram of cassia
(Chinese cinnamon) oil. 0.07 gram of nutmeg oil, and,
if desired, traces of coriander, lavender, and neroli oils,
and add to 4.9 grams of 95 percent alcohol.
Shake.
Add 2.7 grams of water to the alcohol/oil mixture and let
stand for twenty-four hours at about 60 degrees Fahrenheit
[15.5 Celsius].
A cloudy layer will separate. Take off
the clear part of the liquid only and add the syrup. Add
19 grams of glycerine (from vegetable source, not hog fat,
so the drink can be sold to Orthodox Jews and Moslems)
and 1.5 grams of vanilla extract. Add water (treated with
chlorine) to make 1 gallon of syrup. Yield (used to flavor
carbonated water): 128 6.5-ounce bottles."
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