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  • Admetus@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Coca cola to this day still uses ‘vegetable extract’. What is the secret ingredient?

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      9 months ago

      There is an exemption to drug laws for Coca Cola, carved out 100 years ago. You can import coca if you are going to reduce the cocaine from it. Maywood Chemical Works in new jersey decocainifies all of Coca Cola’s cocaine so they can include the flavoring in their syrup.

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        9 months ago

        It’s actually not quite an exception, because cocaine is a Schedule II drug (can be prescribed as a vasoconstrictor or topical anesthetic) and the Maywood plant is the only facility licensed to produce pharmaceutical grade cocaine in the US.

        So the coca leaf extract they sell to Coca-Cola is technically a byproduct.