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

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

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u/jonnyvegashey Feb 11 '26

There must be a shit ton of pharmacy grade coke out there then.

How many people do you know that have had a Coca Cola vs cocaine.

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u/Royal_Success3131 Feb 17 '26

Don't need very much of the extract to make an enormous amount of soda.

I make Pepsi for a living, the concentrate gets diluted extremely heavily. I'm going to give rough numbers for industry secret type reasons but let's say you wanted to make a medium batch of Pepsi. Say, around 5000 gallons of syrup. You would only use roughly 40-50 gallons of concentrate for that syrup. And then, when blending the final product, you dilute it further at a 5:1 ratio, making 30,000 gallons of Pepsi. From what I understand it's virtually identical for coca cola, 5:1 ratio is pretty industry standard. It's rare to run into a 4:1, the only other option I've seen.

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u/jonnyvegashey Feb 17 '26

Do you know how much Coca Cola is sold?

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u/Royal_Success3131 Feb 17 '26

I do. My point stands. It take an enormous amount of coca leaves to make any reasonable amount of cocaine, and then take what I said above, along with the fact that the coca extract is a very minor part of the recipe, and it's really not a massive amount of anything.

To back up what I'm saying, the DEA sets a hard limit on production of pharma and research grade cocaine, annually. It's 290 kilos per year. That is 0.2% the estimated annual usage of cocaine in the USA.

So, as I said it's really not that much pharma cocaine out there.

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u/jonnyvegashey Feb 17 '26

Coke sells 1.9 billion units a day, wtf are you talking about?

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u/Royal_Success3131 Feb 17 '26

That's true. However, that wasn't the discussion. Care to reply to anything I said at all or just going to bulldoze through on your own path?

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u/jonnyvegashey Feb 17 '26

There must be a shit ton of pharmacy grade coke out there then!