[pipio21]

Today with chemical laboratory analysis you can get the ingredients of anything. So what Coca Cola uses is not that secret. Your point one is not valid.

The secret is making this product economically in enormous quantities. It is about providers, contracts, supply warrantees, dealing with those that bottle your concentrates, water supplies to mix your concentrates, and so on.

There are people that study illnesses data at least in Europe and USA, and there is a clear relationship between sugary carbonated drinks in general and lots of illnesses.

There is a clear relationship with diabetes an sugary drinks in particular.

In the past Coca Cola used Coca, and hence cocaine, but it does not anymore.

[AndrewOMartin]

But it still contains an extract from the Coca leaf.

"Coke dropped cocaine from its recipe around 1900, but the secret formula still calls for a cocaine-free coca extract produced at a Stepan Co. factory in Maywood, N.J."

" Stepan buys about 100 metric tons of dried Peruvian coca leaves each year, said Marco Castillo, spokesman for Peru’s state-owned National Coca Co."

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/apr/19/20040419-09...

[DanBC]

Coke sell over 1.9 billion drinks per day, so that 100 metric tons is spread pretty thin.

https://www.coca-cola.co.uk/faq/how-many-cans-of-coca-cola-a...

[jacquesm]

The major ingredient in Coca Cola is branding.