What is the exact formula for Coca Cola?

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 29 Oct 2006 20:56 PST

Since the exact formula is still a trade secret, would this
information be sufficient?

"Notes On Making Cola: 2. A Few Cola Syrup Recipes"
C@TAS
http://www.catas1.org/eng/misc/cola/cola2.htm

If so, I'd be happy to post it -- along with a link for the
Pendergrast book cited in it -- as an answer.

If I knew, the last thing I would be doing is writing these very
words. The exact formula is known by no more than a handful of people,
most of them dead. Only two or three living people know the formula
and if they divulged it, they would be sued so fast and for so much,
that their Great*100 Grandchildren would feel it.

Heh. The *exact* formula for Coke is probably one of the most heavily
guarded trade secrets in the world and is unlikely to be locatable by
any means the typical Google Answers researcher has available.

That said, there was a book a few years back called FOR GOD, FOR
COUNTRY, AND FOR COCA-COLA. It was a history of the Coca-cola company
and if I recall correctly the author included what he purported was a
formula for Coke he found while researching their archives. (My copy
of the book has gone missing, so I can't check for you...)

That claim might not be accurate, and the formula may have changed
anyway, but tracking down that book at your local bookstore or library
might be the best (and perhaps only) answer you can easily get for
this question...

Well my father worked for the company that bottled Pepsi in the UK,
now they have a tie in with Coca Cola.

He said that there was no great secret.

I don't know about Coke, but when making Pepsi you pour in dilute
Phosphoric acid - and it really hurts if you get a back splash in your
eye - it happened to me.

If you really want to know ask Cotts, they are a Canadian company that
specialize in Own Brand soft drinks.

Jeraboo --

It's a secret that just got two Atlanta people jail time when they
tried to sell it:
Newsweek
"Coca-Cola's Holy Grail"
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15463869/site/newsweek/

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Coca Cola uses the coca leaf in whatever its secret formula is-- the
leaf which cocaine is also made from.  They used to keep the cocaine,
but now they remove it.  They're one of the few legal purveyors of
cocaine in America.  They're licensed by the government to do this and
carefully monitored, of course. They take the cocaine that is removed
from the coca leaves and sell it to hospitals for use as a topical
anesthetic-- they are actually one of the country's largest sellers of
cocaine! Bet you didn't know that, huh?  This used to be done in a
specific factory in New Jersey, but now it's unknown where it occurs. 
And of course, they keep this a little-known fact.  (I first read it
in a textbook in college.)

"Original Coca-Cola used the coca leaves as they were, cocaine and
all. As public suspicion of the new "wonder drug" grew early this
century, the Coca-Cola company voluntarily began to extract the
cocaine through a chemical process. Back then, that refining was done
in a plant in the town of Maywood, New Jersey. .. This history is
recounted in detail in the book "For God, Country and Coca-Cola."

Not that the company will publicly acknowledge any of this. Call up
the Coca-Cola public relations number, and ask them. The only thing
they'll tell you is "Cocaine has never been an added ingredient in
Coca-Cola." Does that mean that it wasn't added because cocaine occurs
naturally in the coca leaf and they didn't remove it? "Cocaine has
never been an added ingredient in Coca-Cola." Does today's Coca-Cola
use the de-cocainized coca leaf as one of its ingredients? "Cocaine
has never been an added ingredient in Coca-Cola." Okay, you have a
nice day too."
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/154/editorial.shtml

jeraboo...

Quantum mechanics/physics prevents ANYTHING from being exactly duplicated.

Therefore...

There is NO exact formula.

There can be an exact formula, just not a perfect execution of the formula.

This wont help but apparently coke used to be green.

Re cheryl1979's comment:

It appears that Coke was never green.

"How Green Was My Ballyhoo"
Snopes.com
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/green.asp

Jeraboo -- touche.

But since it has NEVER been executed...why bother!