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1. Buy the ingredients listed on the back 2. Look up basic proportions & recipes for canned sodas online, just to get an idea about how much to use 3. Start e

1. Buy the ingredients listed on the back 2. Look up basic proportions & recipes for canned sodas online, just to get an idea about how much to use 3. Start experimenting, varying the ratios of each ingredient in each batch

Scoundreller 2y ago
And look up the product labels in different countries because they may have to break down things in ways that other countries don’t. Hopefully the formulation is the same!
- dhosek 2y ago
  Often they aren’t. The obvious one is sugar vs HFCS in Mexican vs American Coke. Then, of course, there’s the big change from the original Coke recipe vs what we have today with cocaine being replaced by caffeine.¹ ⸻ 1. I’m pretty sure that in no country does Coke still use cocaine.
  - jkaplowitz 2y ago
    Regarding Coca-Cola and cocaine: you’re probably right about the psychoactive chemical cocaine, but Coca-Cola does actually still use a trace amount of coca leaf extract in Coca-Cola in (at least) the US. How does this work legally? There is a (single) company that is licensed by the DEA to import coca, and they sell the non-psychoactive part to Coca-Cola. I think the psychoactive part goes toward DEA-approved research purposes, but I’m less sure about that. Coca-Cola’s competitors do not receive or use coca through this process, only Coca-Cola.
    - Scoundreller 2y ago
      The psychoactive part still has (decreasing) medical uses and it goes to pharma: https://nationalpost.com/news/coca-colas-cocaine-connection-is-worth-over-billions https://nationalpost.com/news/coca-colas-cocaine-connection-... I suspect the flavouring component is so diluted nowadays that its kept because it's a valuable sideline having that import license, and adds to the mystique a bit.
      - jkaplowitz 2y ago
        Thanks for confirming those details and being more concise than me. I had originally written “research and/or pharmaceutical uses”, but I wasn’t sure enough to warrant the extra paragraph I was going to include to explain the pharmaceutical uses. :)
    - thorin 2y ago
      I heard about this years ago, but it seems very strange what you can get away with as a massive megacorp! When I was in Peru everyone chewed Coca leaves on the backpacker scene, and many of the locals, but no one ever offered me cocaine.
      - JohnFen 2y ago
        Being a huge, wealthy corporation certainly helps, but I think there's a touch of tradition there, too. That the soda was already a strong cultural presence before cocaine was made illegal probably helped them get "grandfathered" in.
cirrus3 2y ago
uh huh... 99% of the flavor is going to come from "Natural flavors" which is never defined.
cirrus3 2y ago
I'm fairly certain this is an AI-generated answer.
- hooverd 2y ago
  Sucks for people who naturally write with ChatGPTs weirdly chipper cadence.
GlickWick 2y ago
Until you realize "Natural Flavors" does all of the heavy lifting!

Scoundreller 2y ago

And look up the product labels in different countries because they may have to break down things in ways that other countries don’t. Hopefully the formulation is the same!

dhosek 2y ago
Often they aren’t. The obvious one is sugar vs HFCS in Mexican vs American Coke. Then, of course, there’s the big change from the original Coke recipe vs what we have today with cocaine being replaced by caffeine.¹ ⸻ 1. I’m pretty sure that in no country does Coke still use cocaine.
- jkaplowitz 2y ago
  Regarding Coca-Cola and cocaine: you’re probably right about the psychoactive chemical cocaine, but Coca-Cola does actually still use a trace amount of coca leaf extract in Coca-Cola in (at least) the US. How does this work legally? There is a (single) company that is licensed by the DEA to import coca, and they sell the non-psychoactive part to Coca-Cola. I think the psychoactive part goes toward DEA-approved research purposes, but I’m less sure about that. Coca-Cola’s competitors do not receive or use coca through this process, only Coca-Cola.
  - Scoundreller 2y ago
    The psychoactive part still has (decreasing) medical uses and it goes to pharma: https://nationalpost.com/news/coca-colas-cocaine-connection-is-worth-over-billions https://nationalpost.com/news/coca-colas-cocaine-connection-... I suspect the flavouring component is so diluted nowadays that its kept because it's a valuable sideline having that import license, and adds to the mystique a bit.
    - jkaplowitz 2y ago
      Thanks for confirming those details and being more concise than me. I had originally written “research and/or pharmaceutical uses”, but I wasn’t sure enough to warrant the extra paragraph I was going to include to explain the pharmaceutical uses. :)
  - thorin 2y ago
    I heard about this years ago, but it seems very strange what you can get away with as a massive megacorp! When I was in Peru everyone chewed Coca leaves on the backpacker scene, and many of the locals, but no one ever offered me cocaine.
    - JohnFen 2y ago
      Being a huge, wealthy corporation certainly helps, but I think there's a touch of tradition there, too. That the soda was already a strong cultural presence before cocaine was made illegal probably helped them get "grandfathered" in.

cirrus3 2y ago

uh huh... 99% of the flavor is going to come from "Natural flavors" which is never defined.

cirrus3 2y ago

I'm fairly certain this is an AI-generated answer.

hooverd 2y ago
Sucks for people who naturally write with ChatGPTs weirdly chipper cadence.

GlickWick 2y ago

Until you realize "Natural Flavors" does all of the heavy lifting!