Where does the Coca-Cola company import the coca leaves from?

Question

Colombia or Peru?

Indirectly via the only authorized company in the US to process the leaves into the syrup to prepare the most famous and addictive beverage worldwide.

Answer 1

There are no leaves.

Where did you hear that?

They did it pre 1909.

That was 100 years ago.

The FDA came into being and the coca came out of Coke.

What addicts people is the caffeine in Coke.

Your were on the right track

( but your 100 years late).

there was a rumor involving Monsanto.

They were said to have had bought tons of coca leaves and sold them to coke.

That was not true.( the country is question was Bolivia).

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.a...

I'm not against it either.

But there is no use for the leaf and there is no way Coke is going to get busted for such a foolish thing.

The ingredient no longer exists in their formula.

Also, did you read the snopes article?

the amout of cocaine was so minimal( toward the end of the era) that it wasn't even enough to get a "Fly buzzed".

Still, it's an interesting topic and still amazing how people still think that it contains coca.

Answer 2

In the United States, the Stepan Company of Maywood, New Jersey has the only license to legally import coca leaf. The company manufactures pure cocaine for medical use and also produces a cocaine-free extract of the coca leaf, which is used as a flavoring ingredient in Coca-Cola. According to the Bolivian Press, in 1996 the legal importation of coca leaf by Coca-Cola was 204 tons annually.

So I would say Bolivia

Answer 3

Here is a link, do your own research.

You Question does not sound like a question, it sounds more like a demand or a challenge for a debate.