The original recipe/formula for Coca-Cola is - apparently - "
one of the most jealously guarded trade secrets in the world. Locked in a vault in Atlanta. Supposedly unreplicable". US Public Radio program
This American Life has revealed what it believes is the original recipe for Coca-Cola. I was at the CC museum in downtown Atlanta at the end of January...just missed this news! Anyway, the
press release last week describes how the show "
found what appeared to be a copy of the famously guarded trade secret in a newspaper column published in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution on February 18, 1979." The TAL link above reveals part of the story and more more photos; click on image for PDF of the two part recipe - the syrup and the 'secret' 7X flavouring formula - and how to mix it. Apart from the syrup, the 7X flavour itself contains 7 ingredients: alcohol and six essential oils, of the total EO 60% is lemon and orange oils; 100% concentration food grade essential oils are needed; I have dozens of EO at work although not the fluid extract of coca - decocainized or not.
Unlike Paul (link to hat-tip), I love Coke (
my fridge, today)...and as well as coin cleaning etc I remember well enough a primary school experiment forty years past seeing Coke dissolve teeth to nothing in a week. Hmmmm...
Hat-tip:
One Page In A Library of Millions .
Photo: Detail of February 18, 1979 edition of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution
4 comments:
I hope you get a royalty payment given the publicity of your fridge!
Thanks again for the link.
No worries...speaking of royalty, my wedding invite hasn't arrived yet.
Sounds yummy. Where can one purchase a drop of FE Coca?
Yehay...Charlie....good to "see you" again. Well I will be in Colombia next month...so...
:-)
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