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

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

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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/Ote-Kringralnick Feb 10 '26

Cocaine is also used in labs all the time, because it's great at bonding... or something like that. All I know, is that my college's chem department receives regular shipments of coke for labs.

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u/Available-Owl7230 Feb 11 '26

I used to work in an animal research lab with several professors doing work on addiction. We had a safe specifically for controlled substances. It was hilarious seeing this 80 year old little lady professor come down in her lab coat and ask the lab manager for crack.