For over a century, the Coca‑Cola Company’s secret formula was locked away in a vault, which gave birth to all manners of ...

(NEXSTAR) — Americans love cola-flavored beverages ... coca is extracted from these leaves to make cocaine). One such example can be seen below. Dr. John Stith Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist ...

Upon receipt, the company extracts the cocaine from the leaves whereupon they are shipped to Coca Cola. From there, the transformed coca leaves are incorporated into Coke’s semi-secret syrup recipe.

A third wrote: “Coca-Cola is Coca (the South American plant cocaine is derived from) and Kola (kola nut, a stimulant from West Africa). Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine but not anymore ...

For decades, Coca-Cola has worked to correct the misimpression that its signature beverage, Coke, used to contain cocaine. Coke did once contain trace amounts of the drug, but even those were ...