Coca-Cola is already a classic carbonated drink that millions enjoy-perhaps billions-around the world.

But most of them do not even know where its name came from, despite the fact that the brand has been more than 100 years. For many, it was a real discovery to find out that the name of a popular drink comes from a forbidden substance, writes OBOZ. UA. Coca-Cola was originally sold as a kind of wellness drink, and its name refers to two main extracts: coca leaves and stews leaves. Coca leaves are taken from the same plant that is used for the manufacture of cocaine, while nuts give it a characteristic taste and contain natural caffeine.

Although the exact Coca-Cola recipe used today is strictly classified, the drink still contains coca leaves extract.

In 1886, a pharmacist from Atlanta invented Coca-Cola as a tonic stimulating brain that combines cocaine and nut extract when producing caffeine.

Coca-Cola excluded cocaine from her recipe around 1900, but the secret formula still involves the use of coca extract without cocaine produced at the STEPAN CO factory. In Maywood, New Jersey.

Cocaine extract that does not contain cocaine is sold by Coca Cola for use in soft drinks, and cocaine is sold to a pharmaceutical company, in particular local painkillers.

In addition, Coca-Cola also has another legal exception-this is the only brand that is allowed to have two brands for one product.

Earlier OBOZ. UA talked about the fact that Coca-Cola is massively recalling products in Europe due to the fact that a dangerous substance was found in drinks.