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FÓRMULA
DA COCA-COLA -1. PROVÁVEIS INGREDIENTES, SEGUNDO PESQUISAS E TESTES.
DETALHES DE CADA INGREDIENTE. Em inglês.
Only
a few people at The Coca-Cola Company know the current, authentic
Coca-Cola formula, but that hasn't dissuaded amateur sleuths from trying
to concoct or reverse-engineer its production process and ingredients.
The century-old mystery surrounding this secret formula is the subject
of books, speculation and marketing lore.
Recipes for other soft drinks and products – Pepsi-Cola, KFC chicken
and the 'special sauce' in the McDonalds Big Mac, for example – are
also closely-guarded trade secrets, but the Coke formula certainly
attacts the most attention. Alleged Coca-Cola syrup recipes vary greatly
and The Coca-Cola Company reluctantly admits the formula has changed
over the decades. Published accounts say it contains or once contained
sugar, caramel, caffeine, phosphoric acid, coca leaf and cola nut
extract, lime juice or oil, flavoring mixture, vanilla and originally
glycerin (but not any more).
Coke spokespersons consistently claim all published recipes are
incorrect.
The following are some of the alleged recipes for the syrup:
1 Alleged Syrup Recipes
1.1 Purported Secret Recipe One
1.2 Purported Secret Recipe Two
1.3 Purported Secret Recipe Three
2 New Coke 1985
3 Formula history and background
4 External links
ALLEGED SYRUP RECIPES
Purported Secret Recipe One
This recipe is attributed to a sheet of paper found in an old formulary
book owned by Coca-Cola inventor, John S. Pemberton, just before his
death:
1 oz. Citrate Caffeine
3 oz. Citric Acid
1 oz. Extract Vanilla
1 Qt. Lime Juice
2 1/2 oz. Flavoring
30 lbs. Sugar
4 oz. fluid extract of Coca (decocainized flavor essence
of the coca leaf)
2 1/2 gal. Water
Caramel sufficient
80 Oil Orange
40 Oil Cinnamon
120 Oil Lemon
20 Oil Coriander
40 Oil Nutmeg
40 Oil Neroli
1 Qt. Alcohol
"Mix Caffeine Acid and Lime Juice in 1 quart boiling water add
vanilla and flavoring when cool. Let stand for 24 hours. Flavoring is
likely a mixture orange oil, lemon, nutmeg oil, cinnamon oil, coriander
oil, neroli oil and 1 quart of alcohol."
This recipe does not specify when sugar, coca, caramel or the rest of
the water are added.
Purported Secret Recipe Two
This
recipe is attributed to pharmacist John Reed.
30 pounds of sugar
2 gallons of water
2 pints of lime juice
4 ounces of citrate of caffeine
2 ounces of citric acid
1 ounce of extract of vanilla
6 drams (3/4 ounce) of fluid extract of cola
6 drams of fluid extract of coca
Purported Secret Recipe Three
This recipe is from Food Flavorings: Composition, Manufacture and Use
(2nd Ed.) 1968 by Joseph Merory (AVI Publishing Company, Inc., Westport,
CT)
Makes one gallon of syrup. "Mix 2,400 grams of sugar with just
enough water to dissolve (high-fructose corn syrup may be substituted
for half the sugar). Add 37 grams of caramel, 3.1 grams of caffeine, and
11 grams of phosphoric acid. Extract the cocaine from 1.1 grams of coca
leaf (Truxillo growth of coca preferred) with toluol; discard the
cocaine extract. Soak the coca leaves and kola nuts (both finely
powdered; 0.37 gram of kola nuts) in 22 grams of 20 percent
alcohol.
California
white wine fortified to 20 percent strength was used as the soaking
solution circa 1909, but Coca-Cola may have switched to a simple
water/alcohol mixture. After soaking, discard the coca and kola and add
the liquid to the syrup. Add 30 grams of lime juice (a former
ingredient, evidently, that Coca-Cola now denies) or a substitute such
as a water solution of citric acid and sodium citrate at lime-juice
strength. Mix together 0.88 gram of lemon oil, 0.47 gram of orange oil,
0.20 gram of cassia (Chinese cinnamon) oil. 0.07 gram of nutmeg oil,
and, if desired, traces of coriander, lavender, and neroli oils, and add
to 4.9 grams of 95 percent alcohol.
Shake.
Add 2.7 grams of water to the alcohol/oil mixture and let stand for
twenty-four hours at about 60 degrees Fahrenheit [15.5 Celsius]. A
cloudy layer will separate. Take off the clear part of the liquid only
and add the syrup. Add 19 grams of glycerine (from vegetable source, not
hog fat, so the drink can be sold to Orthodox Jews and Moslems) and 1.5
grams of vanilla extract. Add water (treated with chlorine) to make 1
gallon of syrup. Yield (used to flavor carbonated water): 128 6.5-ounce
bottles."
New Coke 1985
In what turned out to be a marketing blunder, Coca-Cola changed the
formula of their drink to try and attract sales away from competitors.
The drink was relaunched as New Coke on April 23, 1985, and met general
rejection from the public and derisory reactions from competitors like
Pepsi-Cola. Within a period of weeks, Coca-Cola Original was brought
back onto the market.
The New Coke formula was a variant of the sweeter Diet Coke formula
rather than of the original Coca-Cola formula itself. Thus New Coke
tasted much sweeter, perhaps more like Pepsi.
This Coca-Cola formula appears to be the original formula to Coca-Cola.
An author named Mark Pendergrast wrote a book about Coca-Cola entitled
For God, Country and Coca-Cola. In writing this book he was able to
interview just about anybody he wanted within Coca-Cola, and was also
granted access to the vast archives of Coca-Cola. In reviewing archive
material, he was presented with a book labeled:
Account and formula book
belonging to Dr. J.S. Pemberton
while a druggist in Columbus
Confirmation
of Coca-Cola Formula
The
secret's out! Try your own home made Coca-Cola. Still yet untested by us. Try this at your own risk.
Ingredients
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1
oz. Citrate Caffein
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3
oz. Citric Acid
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1
oz. Ext. Vanilla
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1
Qt. Lime Juice
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2
1/2 oz. Flavoring
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30
lbs. Sugar
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4
oz. F.E. Coco
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Caramel
sufficient
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2
1/2 gal. Water
Flavoring
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80
Oil Orange
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40
Oil Cinnamon
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120
Oil Lemon
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20
Oil Coriander
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40
Oil Nutmeg
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40
Oil Neroli
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1
Qt. Alcohol
Directions
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Mix
Caffeine Acid and Lime Juice
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1
Qt. Boiling water add vanilla and flavoring when cool.
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Let
stand for 24 hours.
Some
Notes on Preparing The Coca-Cola Formula
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It
takes 1 oz. of syrup mixed with carbonated water to make a 6.5 oz.
serving of Coca-Cola.
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"F.E.
Coco" means fluid extract of coca (the plant that produces
cocaine), however the recipe does not go into details as to how this
extract was prepared. Another ol Coca-Cola formula in the possession
of Frank Robinson's great-grandson1, indicates that 10 pounds of
coca leaf are required to flavor 36 gallons of syrup. It is also
believed that the coca plant with lower cocaine levels was used to
produce the extract. This is based on some of Pemberton's writings
that indicate some coca plants were too bitter (that was because of
cocaine).
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The
cola in Coca-Cola comes from the kola nut, yet kola nuts are not
mentioned in the above Coca-Cola formula. This was because the
reason for using kola nuts was for their caffeine content, and
Pemberton almost positively bought his "Citrate Caffein"
from a company that derived their caffeine from kola nuts.
(Pemberton had previously praised the German firm Merck of producing
a superior form of the stimulant from kola nuts)
This page is in NOT sponsored, endorsed, or anyway affiliated by
Coca-Cola, and all trademarks are the property of Coca-Cola.
LINKS:
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/formula.asp
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/newcoke.asp
Fonte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_formula#Alleged_Syrup_Recipes
Formula
history and background - William Poundstone in his 1983 book Big
Secrets
ISBN 0-688-04830-7 devotes chapter three (18 pages) to the Coca-Cola
formula.
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