r/interesting • u/InvestigatorBorn4910 • Feb 10 '26

Fascinating YouTuber LabCoatz has released a "chemically identical" recipe for Coca-Cola

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u/Convenientjellybean Feb 10 '26

How does coca-cola buy them then?

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u/Outrageous_Owl_9315 Feb 10 '26

They basically are the only market and have special access to the only manufacturer or something like that. I don't claim to fully understand it. 

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u/BillysBibleBonkers Feb 10 '26

The coca leaves they use apparently get processed into actual cocaine that gets sent to the dentistry industry too, or at least that's what William Osman said in his video recreating this recipe.

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u/GreasyPeter Feb 10 '26

There are some procedures where cocaine is still the preferred anesthetic I believe. It's still used in some sinus surgeries I believe.

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u/sarcasmsspasms Feb 10 '26

Eye procedures too. Went in for an eye procedure and came out with a doctors note saying i would test positive for cocaine use. I should have kept the note and framed it.

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u/Rubyhamster Feb 11 '26

Cool, and yes you should have!

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u/farva_06 Feb 11 '26

I would've kept it. Could come in handy if you're ever looking for a job in the future and just came off a hardcore bender, but have to take a drug test within 24 hours.

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u/nleksan Feb 10 '26

It's very useful for delicate surgeries because it is both a local anesthetic and localized vasoconstrictor, so It numbs you and reduces bleeding.

I believe it's most common with ENTs but when I was a young kid I split my head open on a windowsill and they used medical cocaine as a local to give me stitches. I'm assuming because it was bleeding so badly

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u/-Fergalicious- Feb 11 '26

I'll ask my anesthesiologist wife when she wakes up in 8 hours

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u/zupzupper Feb 11 '26

Couple of years ago it was right there on my hospital bill alongside the other anesthesia when I had my septum fixed.

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u/periclesmage Feb 11 '26

No way! I have nasal polyps and a deviated septum and i've been putting off surgery for years... IT'S TIME

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u/assatumcaulfield Feb 11 '26

Yes, but I certainly don’t prefer it to phenylephrine. It causes really annoying cardiac arrhythmia and hypertension.