Quite informative, and a laundry list of flavor names/chemicals that sound far more dangerous than they taste. Interesting find is vinegar, which might have offered a small germ-fighting benefit and given Coca Cola the 'medical' qualities it initially sold for...

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halapro 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The ingredients he uses are not necessarily what CC uses, but they're just a way to replicate the flavor profile. Notably he lacks the coca extract so he has to make up for it.

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leetrout 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was surprised to see nausea meds for kids that's phosphoric acid and sugar...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose/fructose/phosphoric_ac...

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foxyv 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I think that the cocaine was the origin of its medical debut.

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riffraff 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Cola nut also contains caffeine, so quite an energy drink between the two.

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colechristensen 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It was a reformulation from a popular drink where wine was infused with coca leaves and kola nuts, popular with Pope Leo XIII who appeared on poster advertisements for it. (and many others)

Georgia passed prohibition and coca-cola was an invention to replace the now banned beverages.

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fiftyacorn 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Is that tonic wine? Like buckfast?

	▲	colechristensen 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Same kind of thing as Buckfast, long out of production but somebody tried to revive it a decade ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Mariani https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mariani_pope.jpg