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Someone just used gas chromatography to develop a seemingly passable knock off of the unpatented Coca Cola formula and posted it online. https://youtu.be/TDkH3
by wpm 9mo ago
Someone just used gas chromatography to develop a seemingly passable knock off of the unpatented Coca Cola formula and posted it online.
https://youtu.be/TDkH3EbWTYc https://youtu.be/TDkH3EbWTYc
- amarcheschi 9mo agoI firmly believe that such thing is already know by companies... In the niche perfumes hobby, you have small brands doing that or people paying for gcms analysis on perfumes, i guess that companies have already done that on coke for decades
- hyperman1 9mo agoI always assumed this to be marketing, as reversing the formula has been easy since the '90s. I know someone with acces to a university lab, and he reverses and recreates popular tastes as a hobby. Also, in double blind taste tests, pepsi tends to win from Coca. Their real genius was always marketing, associating sugar water with freedom, free time, summer AND christmas, ... Not to look down on them, good marketing is both very hard and very powerfull.