TRUE OR FALSE : Coca- Cola was once made from pure cocaine {which is how it got it's name}?

Question

The most addictive soft drink in the world was once addictive for other reasons as well.... was it really the REAL THING ???

Answer 1

It was never made with cocaine, but did contain coca leaves extracts from which cocaine is made.

Answer 2

Coca Cola used to be liquid cocaine.

Answer 3

It had some cocaine in it originally (but it wasn't made FROM it), obviously it doesn't have cocaine in it anymore. But the name comes from the coca flavor in it.

P.S. Some people say that if you turn the coca-cola cursive letters sideways (so it reads top to bottom) you can see a portrait of a guy smoking crack. lol it's sorta true, but i don't think it's intentional. ;-)

Answer 4

that was true

Answer 5

isnt coke made from a cola nut..and wasnt it dr. pepper that was made for medicinal purposes from the cocaine..that was perprtably taken at 10..2 ..and 4 o'clock

Answer 6

TRUE

Answer 7

False - It was never made from pure cocaine.

There was once a minute amount of cocaine in Coca-Cola.

Answer 8

Um No! Or else everyone would know...

Answer 9

True most beverages started out as health tonics. It contained coca leaves, which is different slightly than cocaine. It didn't contain all that much though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_cola#C...

Answer 10

it USED to have cocaine IN it.

Answer 11

TRUE, Coca-Cola was originally developed as a medical supplement. It contained low levels of cocaine due to the extract of Coca leaves and Kola nuts (Coca Kola)

Keep in mind that in the 19th century, Cocaine was an acceptable form of medication until physicians started seeing adverse side effects.

The makers of Coca Cola still needed to market their product since the name was crucial so they allowed for low levels of cocaine to be in the product until 1929 when it was completely removed.

I got the info from Snopes.com

Answer 12

When invented in Atlanta in 1888 yes it was made from cocaine or partially thereof

Answer 13

Coca-cola used to have an ingredient in it that is the main ingredient used in cocaine, but there was no cocaine in the coke.

Answer 14

Coke did contain cociane when it was first out, of course this was before they knew it was harmful at a later date the cocaine was taken out and the product was turned into what it is now

Answer 15

False.  It had a small amount, like 2% of cocaine in it, it was never "pure cocaine."  And This was only for a couple of years around 1885.

Answer 16

False. It is was made from extracts of the kola nut which is how it got its name and was first sold in a pharmacy as a tonic drink.

Answer 17

Your answer would be false because coke is made from a mixture of ingredients. To be made from pure, you can not mix it with any other ingredient.

It was the syrup used for making Coca-Cola that had cocaine in it.

Answer 18

Not pure cocaine.  It did have cocaine in it, but it wasn't 100% cocaine, it also had kola in it, which is now a controlled substance, too.

Answer 19

This Israel thing always insults Islam.

Have you ever seen the word coca cola inversely.It looks like the Arabic 'La Allah La Muhammad' which means no Allah no Muhammad.(astagfirullah).

From that point I believe there may have coccaine in it.Israel are impossible Kafirs.

Answer 20

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Answer 21

Absolutely false. The name came from the cola leaves that south American indians chewed to relieve pain.

The first Coca-Cola recipe was invented in Columbus, Georgia at a drugstore by John Stith Pemberton, originally as a cocawine called Pemberton's French Wine Coca in 1885. He may have been inspired by the formidable success of European Angelo Mariani's cocawine, Vin Mariani.

Use of stimulants in formula

When launched Coca Cola's two key ingredients were cocaine (benzoylmethyl ecgonine) and caffeine. The cocaine was derived from the coca leave and the caffeine from kola nuts - Coca-Cola (the 'K' in Kola was replaced with a C for marketing purposes).

Coca - Cocaine

Pemberton called for five ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup, a significant dose, whereas, in 1891, Candler claimed his formula (altered extensively from Pemberton's original) contained only a tenth of this amount. Coca Cola did once contain an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass, but in 1903 it was removed.Coca Cola still contains coca flavouring.

After 1904, Coca Cola started using, instead of fresh leaves, "spent" leaves - the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with cocaine trace levels left over at a molecular level. To this day, Coca Cola uses as an ingredient a cocaine free coca leaf extract prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey.

Answer 22

yes it used to have cocaine in it.

Pemberton called for five ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup, a significant dose, whereas, in 1891, Candler claimed his formula (altered extensively from Pemberton's original) contained only a tenth of this amount. Coca Cola did once contain an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass, but in 1903 it was removed.[17] Coca Cola still contains coca flavouring.

Answer 23

FALSE.about the name.

The name Koke- was from coking coal- commonly known as black at the time.

It was also sold as Yum-Yum.

The origin of Coke was cocawine-an alcoholic mix of cocaine and wine- subsequently outlawed by 1886 Georgia Prohibition Laws. Later the cocaine had to be removed as well.

As of 1887 it was a non-alchohlic carbonated version of French Cola Wine.

The original recipe contained 9 mg of Cocaine per glass, but was removed entirely in 1903.

As of 1892- the 3 sellers of Koke and Coca Cola had been amalgamated into the Coca Cola Company.

Answer 24

yes when it first was made but not any more

Answer 25

False it wasn't made from pure cocaine.   Coca Cola's two key ingredients were cocaine (benzoylmethyl ecgonine) and caffeine. The cocaine was derived from the coca leave and the caffeine from kola nuts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_cola