Ben van Kerkwyk
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They still use the coca leaf for flavor for Coca-Cola.
And they use it to produce medical grade cocaine.
The flavor is what's in Coke.
I guess it's the flavonoids.
That's what's in Coca-Cola.
And it used to be cocaine was in Coca-Cola.
I would like to go back and try some of that.
I like to go like, what was that like?
Like how much cocaine was in there?
What year did they, let's find out what year they took cocaine out of Coca-Cola.
Because I remember the whole story for – I don't remember exactly the details of like how cocaine was in Coca-Cola for the first place.
But cocaine used to be prescribed.
So in 1903, fresh coca leaves were removed from the formula.
After 1904, instead of using fresh coca leaves, Coca-Cola started using spent leaves, the leftovers of the cocaine extraction process with trace levels of cocaine.