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We are not claiming that we have found the recipe used today for
Coca-Cola. We believe we found a recipe that is either the original
recipe made by the inventor of Coke, John Pemberton, or a version of
Coca-Cola that he made either before or after the product hit the
market in 1886. We believe that because it was found in the notebook of
his friend, on a page entitled "Coco-Cola recipe improved," and because
it was found in Pemberton's own notebook, in Coca-Cola's archives. Much
of the press about our story takes at face value Coca-Cola's statements
that we have not found the recipe for Coke, present or past. But when
asked if the company has actually checked to see if this formula
matches the original formula - which archivist Phil Mooney assured me
they still have - company spokespeople always politely sidestep the
question. So it seems entirely possible that no one at Coke has
checked. If they'd checked to see if the formulas match, why not say
so? Phil Mooney even admitted something interesting about the recipe in
our interview: "Could it be a precursor? Yeah, absolutely." He then
went on to express, as his opinion, not as fact: "Is this the one that
went to market? I don't think so." Since the original formula is no
longer made by Coke, and since all the ingredients seem to be on the
public record, why not release the old formula? This year, Coke's 125th
anniversary, would be a great time for it! So we stand by our story. We
believe the recipe is either the version Pemberton brought to market in
1886, a precursor, or an improved version made after it was already on
the market. As for our bigger point, that the ingredients to Coke's
supposedly super-secret formula can be figured out without much trouble
by anyone who wants to, that seems incontrovertibly true. Versions of
the recipe have been published starting in the 1960's. Not to mention
that a device called a gas chromatograph can tell a trained scientist
the ingredients in coke or any other beverage, not with perfect
accuracy, but close enough that you're in the ballpark. Source:
Original
Recipe | This American Life