- Until 1905, the soft drink, marketed as a tonic, contained extracts of cocaine as well as the caffeine-rich kola nut.- On April 23, 1985, the trade secret "New Coke" formula was released.- Today, products of the Coca Cola Company are consumed at the rate of more than ...
Coca, the source of natural cocaine, is one of a handful of shrubs in the Erythroxylum family of plants. Erythroxylum includes over 100 different species of trees, shrubs and sub-shrubs native to South America and elsewhere. Two of the South American species,E. cocaandE. novogranatense, hav...
Coca-Cola, for example, was promoted as a remarkably beneficial stimulant, thanks to the cocaine it contained in its early years. Chero-Cola Emerges As a Threat to Coke The pharmacist who invented Chero-Cola was Claud A. Hatcher of Columbus, Georgia. In 1905, he developed his first ...
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Pemberton claimed his "health drink" could cure impotence, headaches, and morphine addiction. Coca-Cola is still made from coca leaves - but the cocaine has been chemically extracted. Freud falls for cocaine Sigmund Freud wasn't just the father of psychoanalysis. He was also one of cocaine's...
On the 31stof January 1893, the Coca Cola logo was trademarked. The word “Trademark” can be seen in the first C’s tail in the word Coca. 1890-1891: Coke adds More Swirls For just a year, the Coca-Cola logo has a striking, swirly transformation. ...
His prototype was a brown-colored liquid consisting of caffeine and cocaine. These chemicals was form two herbs grown in South America called Coca and Kola, so he named his drug Coca Kola by the first two letters from names of raw materials and soon changed Kola to Cola to make it more ...
The history of cocaine begins with the history of the coca plant. Even prior to the inca period the plant was used in South America; for centuries use of the plant remained restricted primarily to that continent. In 1859, an Austrian explorer brought home from Peru coca leaves that he sent...
See also:Did Coca-Cola Really Contain Cocaine When It Was First Invented? The ad said that Coke was “Delicious! Refreshing! Exhilarating! Invigorating!” And, after that, “Delicious and Refreshing” became the first official advertising slogan. Below is a list of some of the major advertising...
Most people are familiar with tales of cocaine being an early ingredient of "e;Coke"e; tonic; it's an era the company makes every effort to bury. Yet coca leaf, the source of cocaine which has been banned in the U.S. since 1914, has been part of Coca-Cola's secret formula...