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Coca-Cola used coca leaf extract in its products from 1885 until about 1903, when it began using decocainized leaf extract. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Extraction of cocaine from coca requires several solvents and a chemical process known as an acid–base extraction , which can fairly easily extract the alkaloids from the plant.
Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a cola soft drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company.In 2013, Coke products were sold in over 200 countries and territories worldwide, with consumers drinking more than 1.8 billion company beverage servings each day. [1]
Coca-Cola inventor John Pemberton is known to have shared his original formula with at least four people before his death in 1888. [1] In 1891, Asa Candler purchased the rights to the formula from Pemberton's estate, founded the Coca-Cola Company, and instituted the shroud of secrecy that has since enveloped the formula. He also made changes to ...
Coca-Cola Advertisement, 1886. In the 1880s, a pharmacist in Georgia, John Pemberton, took caffeine extracted from kola nuts and cocaine-containing extracts from coca leaves and mixed them with sugar, other flavorings, and carbonated water to invent Coca-Cola, the first widely popular cola soft drink. [1]
When you think Coca-Cola, you probably associate the name with its most popular, signature soda, that trusty recipe in the red can or glass bottle. ... Introduced in 1999, Dasani is a top-selling ...
Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi can trace their origins back to the 1890s, and the two sodas seemed to be able to peacefully co-exist until nearly a century later. But in the 1980s, the companies began...
That said, the Coca-Cola logo hasn’t always looked the same as it does today. A few years after its inception, the logo swapped the swirly font for a more gothic style. This only lasted a year.
Erythroxylum coca var. ipadu, also known as Amazonian coca, is closely related to Erythroxylum coca var. coca, from which it originated relatively recently. [3] E. coca var. ipadu does not escape cultivation or survive as a feral or wild plant like E. coca var. coca [4] It has been suggested that due to a lack of genetic isolation to differentiate it from E. coca var. coca, E. coca var. ipadu ...