Here are two interesting news items about the Secret recipe of Coca Cola .
Top secret Coca Cola recipe revealed! By Indo Asian News Service | IANS – Tue, Feb 15, 2011 1:43 PM IST London, Feb 15 (IANS) The top secret recipe of one of the world's most popular beverages, Coca Cola, which was kept locked in a steel vault in Atlanta city and guarded 24-hours a day, has now been leaked by a website. The drink was created by pharmacist John Pemberton in 1886. Its recipe reportedly contains the exact measures of all the different oils needed for Coca Cola's secret ingredient - Merchandise 7X. Despite making up only one percent of the drink's total formula, Merchandise 7X gives the popular soft drink its unique taste, the Daily Telegraph reported. However, thisamericanlife.org website claims to have discovered a list in a photograph in a newspaper article giving the ingredients and exact quantities to make the drink. The Feb 8, 1979, edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a photograph of someone holding open a book with a recipe claimed to be an exact replica of Pemberton's. The 'secret' recipe is al follows: Fluid extract of Coca 3 drams USP Citric acid 3 oz Caffeine 1 oz Sugar 30 (quantity unclear from the markings) Water 2.5 gal Lime juice 2 pints 1 qrt Vanilla 1 oz Caramel 1.5 oz or more to colour 7X flavour (use 2oz of flavour to 5 gals syrup) Alcohol 8 oz Orange oil 20 drops Lemon oil 30 drops Nutmeg oil 10 drops Coriander 5 drops Neroli 10 drops Cinnamon 10 drops Coca-Cola says secret of its recipe still intact By Martinne Geller | Reuters – Wed, Feb 16, 2011 1:52 AM IST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co said on Tuesday that its flagship cola recipe is still secret after nearly 125 years, denying a story by a public radio show that it has uncovered the formula. "This American Life," a weekly radio program, said it found the closely guarded formula in an article in Coke's hometown newspaper, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, from February 1979. A photo that appeared with the article shows pages from a notebook with a handwritten list of ingredients such as sugar, lime juice, vanilla and caramel. It also lists oils of cinnamon, neroli, coriander, nutmeg, lemon and orange. The show, produced by WBEZ Chicago and distributed by Public Radio International, claims the notebook originally belonged to a friend of John Pemberton, the pharmacist who created Coca-Cola in 1886. The book passed through various hands and eventually landed with Georgia pharmacist Everett Beal, who was an acquaintance of the newspaper writer, according to Beal's widow, who was interviewed by "This American Life" host Ira Glass. Coke, the world's largest soft drink maker, denied that the formula is the same as the one for its cola, which is kept in an Atlanta bank vault. "Many third parties, including 'This American Life,' have tried to crack our secret formula. Try as they might, they've been unsuccessful because there is only one 'Real Thing,'" said Coca-Cola spokeswoman Kerry Tressler. The show said the recipe matched another one once found in a notebook owned by Pemberton, which is in Coke's archives. Archive director Philip Mooney told the show that many similar, if not identical, recipes have surfaced in the past that claim to be the one for what has become one of the world's best-known brands. "Could it be a precursor? Yeah, absolutely," Mooney told the show. "Is this the one that went to market? I don't think so." (Reporting by Martinne Geller, editing by Gerald E. McCormick)
