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America's Oldest Commercial Soft Drink Isn't Coca-Cola - Grunge
Long before Coca-Cola, America's oldest soft drink was invented by a British chemist in 1767 as a medicinal remedy.
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"Coca-Cola was first bottled in 1894, and cocaine was removed from the recipe by 1903. However, Coca-Cola still relies on coca leaves as part of its heavily-guarded secret recipe; Business Insider reported that the Coca-Cola Company has a special arrangement with the Drug Enforcement Administration that allows them to import coca leaves from Peru and Bolivia. The cocaine is removed from the leaves and used by another corporation to make cocaine hydrochloride, a legal topical anesthesia. Just like the Pemberton era, the (now cocaine-free) leaves are then added to the syrup that makes the world's most popular soft drink and keeps the Coca-Cola Company the most profitable beverage company in the world, per CaffeineInformer.com."
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