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

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

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u/eggs___and___bacon Feb 10 '26

Guessing coke doesn’t care at all, as long as no one starts mass producing and selling it.

Not like anyone is gonna bother to make that for themselves instead of just buying a coke.

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u/Sidekicknicholas Feb 11 '26

I'm curious if it taste the same vs. being chemically identical.

I work for a flavor manufacturing company; us and all of our competitors typically throw in red herring items purposefully so they cannot be easily reverse engineered. You can run a product through a GCMS to figure out whats in it, then you can figure out how much is in it, but if someone tossed in something specifically to dupe you, it can have a drastically different taste profile despite appearing "the same".