The drink is a derivative of the botanical names of Erythroxylon coca and cola, a plant delle sterculiacee. Quindi si presume anche che gli estratti nella ricetta siano delle piante.
According to German newspaper Bild, the secret recipe of Coca-Cola has been solved. The beverage appears to consist of 99.5% of coke water, the secret itself containing in the remaining 0.5%. The Germans Udo Pollmer and Susanne Warmut have written a book on the subject, according to which the remaining 0.5% contains cola leaves, vanilla, coffee and cacao concentrate, lemon juice, tangerine peel liqueur, a drop of tropical oil, and a mimosa tree extract. The recipe of Coca-Cola has so far been regarded as the most carefully protected secret in the world. It is known to be kept in a safe in USA. An American, John Pemberton is said to have mixed the components absolutely by chance in the last century.
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Origins true:
late nineteenth century, the young Corsican chemist Angelo Mariani made a wine made with coca, which was immediately acclaimed opera singers and musicians as an excellent remedy for sore throat, as a stimulant and tonic so as to deserve its inventor medal Medical Academy of France.
Tsar and Tsarina, the reigning British, Swedish and Norwegian kings, King Norodom of Cambodia, the commander of French forces in Indochina, the commanding general of the British Army and even Pope Leo XIII were regular consumers of wine junkie, so that its creator was given a medal by the Successor of Peter "honorary".
Many intellectuals of the time made use of Vin Mariani, among them writers Dumas, Verne, Rostand, Zola, Ibsen, and France, the divine Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse, composers Massenet and Gounod, artists Rodin, Robida and Cheret. At this point, too
American entrepreneurs judged advantageous to invest in the market for products based on cocaine. It was so 'that JS Pemberton launched the French Wine Coca, referred to as just nervous stimulant and tonic.
Prohibition outlawed all preparazoini an alcohol and Pemberton was forced to retreat by inventing what was to become one of the most famous and imitated Drink of the story: Coca-Cola, made with non-alcoholic extract of coca leaves and cola nuts African dissolved in a sweet caramel syrup.
Soon the business boom headed for a rapid failure.
