October 4th, 2005
Formula for Coca Cola Leaked Online?
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
We always worried that nuclear bomb-making would make its way to the ‘Net, but who knew that the biggest leak would be America’s most guarded secret: the formula for Coca Cola? Fake or inevitable? (See comments at the end.)
Account and formula book belonging to Dr. J.S. Pemberton while a druggist in Columbus
While reviewing the book Pendergrast came upon a recipe for “Celery Cola” and quickly realized that this was not an early formulary guide of Pemberton’s. This was in fact a formulary book produced shortly before Pemberton’s death, and there was a good chance that it contained the original Coca-Cola formula.
Pendergrast knew that “Celery Cola” was the recipe Pemberton was working on at the time of his death, and he was also aware of the story of Pemberton’s apprentice and an old formulary book. The story went that a young man named John P. Turner went to apprentice with the elderly John Pemberton, and not long after starting his apprenticeship Mr. Pemberton died. Young Mr. Turner went back to his home of Columbus, GA., and took one of Pemberton’s formulary books with him. In 1943, a son of Mr. Turner’s happened to show the formulary book, which did contain a recipe for Coca-Cola, to a member of Coca-Cola’s board. The board member managed to acquire the book from Turner’s son, and no one had seen the book since (or at least until Pendergrast found it in their archives).
As Pendergrast looked through the old pages of what remained of Pemberton’s formulary guide he came upon a page that was unlabeled except for an ‘X’ at the top of the page. Sure enough, he had found an original Coca-Cola formula. This is the formula that is shown above. Source: Sodamuseum
We Say: Why doesn’t someone whip up a batch and do a real taste test? And surely a chemist can get the facts right at a molecular level. Beats testing home-brewed nuclear bombs. So, do you buy this? We do and don’t.
Update: Here’s some interesting background on the whole Coca Cola formula thanks to Snopes.com:
From Have a Cloak and a Smile:
In a disingenuous way, even if the Pendergrast version were the original, Coca-Cola would still be right about the “not accurate” part. Changes were made to the recipe between the time Pemberton marketed it in 1886 and Woodruff in the 1920s made it company canon that the formula would hereafter not be tinkered with: glycerin was added as a preservative, cocaine was eliminated, caffeine was greatly reduced, and citric acid was replaced with phosphoric acid, to name the changes we know about. Therefore, even if the Pendergrast version were dead on, it still would not be the formulation currently in use, because important changes were later made to it. Source: Snopes.com
Thanks CharlieB3
Numbers Spector says:
The recipe looks ok until you realize that there is no phosphoric acid listed. Coca-Cola Classic has quite a bit of phosphoric acid.
October 4th, 2005 at 1:38 am
Alice says:
My guess was that it was the Real Thing until they changed the formal way back before “New Coke” - the one formula no one cares about.
October 4th, 2005 at 1:57 am
Tom says:
uh, don’t forget that the F.E. Coco isn’t chocolate!
Looks like a good recipe though…
Anyone brewing?
October 4th, 2005 at 4:35 am
AJ says:
1Qt of alcohol?
October 4th, 2005 at 7:25 am
Kevin says:
Yeah… I didn’t think 1Qt was nearly enuf, either!
October 4th, 2005 at 7:39 am
Vernon says:
30 lbs. of sugar ???
October 4th, 2005 at 4:52 pm
me says:
I brewed it, and it’s the real stuff!
October 5th, 2005 at 12:16 am
I says:
It’s waaaaaaaaay better than the current formula!
October 5th, 2005 at 12:17 am
nivoxz says:
uhm uhm i guess it’s not the original formula tough i think i’ll brew it… who knows =)
October 5th, 2005 at 12:59 pm
jeff says:
Coca-Cola still uses something called decocaineized coca leaves.
All the cocaine has been removed.
I believe it’s done bone a pharmaceutical company in Baltimore with a special license from the feds to do this. The cocaine is then used in certain prescription drugs.
October 5th, 2005 at 1:46 pm
John says:
Who care’s ? Pepsi Max is far better anyway !
October 6th, 2005 at 12:29 am
RDSTech says:
There is a major omission from the formula- extract of cola nut, from which part of the Coca-Cola name is derived. The company uses what they refer to as “merchandises” to formulate the syrup. Merchandise 1 is sugar (today basically from corn syrup). Merchandise 2 is caramel coloring. Merchandise 3 is anhydrous caffeine. Merchandise 4 is 75% strength food-grade phosphoric acid. Merchandise 5 is an alcohol-extracted mixture of vanilla beans, lime juice, extract of coca leaves (cocaine removed), and extract of cola nuts. The product name, Coca-Cola was derived from the last two ingredients mentioned. There is no merchandise 6. The final merchandise is 7X, which IS the secret ingredient, manufactured is a secure Coca_Cola facility only. one gallon is used for 5,000 gallons of syrup. Plus highly purified water.
October 6th, 2005 at 7:01 am
Lamar Cole says:
Love is two people sipping Coca Cola from the same straw on a warm sunny day.
October 12th, 2005 at 12:10 pm
Rodrigo Elias says:
Coca cola é uma droga! prefiro guaraná COROA ! ! !
October 20th, 2005 at 9:26 am
Maha says:
Q lixo, prefiro o Dolly!Dolly!Dolly!
Q ta processando a Coca-Cola….
October 20th, 2005 at 11:28 am
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The Coca Cola Recipe
November 4th, 2005 at 1:34 am
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Coca leaves and alcohol !!!!!!
no wonder we Crave it ….
What are we doing to ourselves ,our KIDS ?????
Thanks Coca-cola for your DECEIT
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Wolf says:
Coca leaves comes from Bolivia. Coca-cola Inc. is the only legal buyer of coca leaves. At least, that´s what the U. N says. Notice: Pepsi doesn´t appear as a legal buyer.
Anyway, I don´t believe they take the hole cocaine stuff out of the soda. That´s why it is so addictive. The may take it out of US Coke, but coca-cola tastes a lot different in Brazil.
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