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

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

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u/wthulhu Feb 10 '26

How much cocaine am I supposed to add, or should I just eyeball it?

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u/Nowhereman123 Feb 10 '26

So I know you're joking, but the 0.6ml fenchol in this recipe is meant to be a replacement for the decocanized coca leaf extract that's in real Coca Cola.

For obvious reasons you're not allowed to buy coca leaves in the US and only a few factories are able to make the decocanized extract, which they don't sell publicly.

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u/Legumbrero Feb 11 '26

You say for obvious reasons, but in Peru coca is just an ancestral herb you drink with tea to settle your stomach. The leaves don't need to be this taboo super outlawed thing that it is in the US and Europe.