Old Coca Coke
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011did coca cola used coke as an ingredient to make costumers addicted to it, back in the old days?
just curious!!!!!!!
The original coca-cola did contain a significant amount of cocaine.
The liquid was originally meant to be a Patent Medicine.
From Wikipedia, the Article on Coca Cola:
When launched Coca-Cola's two key ingredients were cocaine (benzoylmethyl ecgonine) and caffeine. The cocaine was derived from the coca leaf and the caffeine from kola nut, leading to the name Coca-Cola (the "K" in Kola was replaced with a "C" for marketing purposes).
Substances used: Coca — Cocaine
...five ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup, a significant dose....
Coca-Cola did once contain an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass, but in 1903 it was removed. Coca-Cola still contains coca flavoring.
After 1904, instead of using fresh leaves, Coca-Cola started using "spent" leaves—the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with cocaine trace levels left over at a molecular level. To this day, Coca-Cola uses as an ingredient a cocaine-free coca leaf extract.
So, yes.
p.b.