Top secret Coca Cola recipe revealed!

-- Source of News : Yahoo India News :
Posted 15 Feb, 2011,

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

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