Top Secret Recipe
For decades Coca-Cola has been known for fiercely guarding its secret formula. Apparently, the recipe is hidden in a corporate vault that only top executives can access. NPR’s This American Life announced in 2011 that they came across the secret recipe through an Atlanta historian named Charles Salter’s documents. He claimed to have seen it in a pile of papers belonging to John Pemberton.
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Aside from coca fluid extract, the drink supposedly contains lemon oil, nutmeg oil, cinnamon oil. And caramel. In response to the media frenzy, Coke revealed that he might have found an early version of the concoction. However, they never admitted to checking NPR’s ingredients against their own. Maybe it’s not such a big secret after all.