[lurn_mor]

Quite informative, and a laundry list of flavor names/chemicals that sound far more dangerous than they taste. Interesting find is vinegar, which might have offered a small germ-fighting benefit and given Coca Cola the 'medical' qualities it initially sold for...

[halapro]

The ingredients he uses are not necessarily what CC uses, but they're just a way to replicate the flavor profile. Notably he lacks the coca extract so he has to make up for it.

[foxyv]

I think that the cocaine was the origin of its medical debut.

[colechristensen]

It was a reformulation from a popular drink where wine was infused with coca leaves and kola nuts, popular with Pope Leo XIII who appeared on poster advertisements for it. (and many others)

Georgia passed prohibition and coca-cola was an invention to replace the now banned beverages.

[fiftyacorn]

Is that tonic wine? Like buckfast?

[colechristensen]

Same kind of thing as Buckfast, long out of production but somebody tried to revive it a decade ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Mariani

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mariani_pope.jpg

[riffraff]

Cola nut also contains caffeine, so quite an energy drink between the two.

[leetrout]

I was surprised to see nausea meds for kids that's phosphoric acid and sugar...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose/fructose/phosphoric_ac...

[tgv]

I thought it was well known that Coca Cola contained phosphoric acid. It's one of the reasons why it's so bad for your teeth.

[leetrout]

Indeed, I think it is and I was given coke for my tummy as a kid so I was making the connection between coke's medicinal properties to on-the-market nausea meds.

[zahlman]

It's explicitly listed as an ingredient, even.

[mrguyorama]

I mean, uh, we used to not have any laws about this stuff:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/pickyourpoison/exhibition...