“The first commercially produced bottles of Coca-Cola contained cocaine.”

Before 1900 the beginning of the good will was more or less helped by the presence of cocaine, a drug that, like alcohol of caffein or opium, may be described as a deadly poison or as a valuable item of the pharmacopoeia according to the rhetorical purposes in view. … The amount seems to have been very small, but it may have been enough to begin a bad habit and after the Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906, c. 3915 (Comp. St. §§ 8717-8728), if not earlier, long before this suit was brought, it was eliminated from the plaintiff's compound.

The main point is this: before 1900, the beginning of the goodwill was more or less helped by the presence of cocaine, a drug that, like alcohol of caffein or opium, may be described as a deadly poison or as a valuable item of the pharmacopoeia, according to the rhetorical purposes in view.

But this strategy became less tenable in 1899, when the company expanded its sales of bottled coke to a national market. This meant that Coca-Cola was now available outside white soda fountains to anyone with a nickel to spare—including Black men. … In 1901, the Atlanta Constitution linked the dangers of Black cocaine use to soft drinks containing the drug, which it claimed could “unconsciously cultivate” a drug habit. That same year, Candler called for a change to the Coca-Cola formula, replacing cocaine with heavier doses of sugar and caffeine—and started denying that the soda had ever contained cocaine to begin with.

The claim: The first bottle of Coca-Cola contained 3.5 grams of cocaine … Coca-Cola did, in fact, once contain cocaine, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

For example, did you know that the original recipe for Coca-Cola contained cocaine? … Pemberton’s recipe contained cocaine in the form of an extract of the coca leaf, which inspired the “Coca” part of the beverage’s name.

When it was first sold, Coca-Cola was in syrup form and mixed on premise; the bottling came later. … It was under his leadership that the company began to bottle Coca-Cola, cocaine was removed as an ingredient, and Monsanto began to supply the caffeine that was used in Coca-Cola.

The short answer to questions about "cocaine in Coke" is that Coca-Cola did contain some cocaine (or more specifically, it contained ecgonine, a precursor to cocaine) in its original formulation, but in an amount that's difficult to estimate now given the secrecy that shrouded its formula and manufacturing processes back in the 19th century.

Many had expected its focus to be on the illegal drug cocaine, which in the 19th century had been a celebrated part of the company’s formula, highlighted in its famously pep-you-up advertising schemes. … But Coca-Cola, under legal and consumer pressure, had removed cocaine from the ingredients almost a decade earlier.

Then they took out the cocaine in 1903 (though the formula still contains decocainized coca leaf).

The recipe has been a secret since 1886, but in a 1979 newspaper article This American Life thinks it's found a list of the American drink's legitimate ingredients. … Fluid extract of coca

They began selling Coca-Cola in bottles and also selling syrup to independent bottling companies through licensing agreements. … Until 1905, it contained extracts of cocaine and the kola nut. Candler removed the cocaine and added citric acid and a variety of fruit flavors.

At trial in 1901, company presi dent Asa Candler admitted under oath to Coca-Cola having “a very small trace” of cocaine. … The company outsourced the preparation of “Merchandise No. 5” (containing coca leaf and kola nut extracts) to remove the cocaine completely.

Pendergrast was in company archives when he came across the formula in a packet of papers once belonging to John Pemberton, the Atlanta pharmacist who invented Coca-Cola in 1886. Among the documents was a page Pendergrast later determined to be the first recipe. It included fluid extract of coca, or cocaine. … Whether Coke ever contained cocaine remains in dispute and the company won't confirm or deny it. But Pendergrast said he found transcripts from a federal tax lawsuit in the early 1900s raising the issue of Coke's claim to have medicinal qualities in which then-Coke President Asa Candler testified to the drug's presence. … Pendergrast said cocaine was removed from the mixture in about 1903, when Coke bowed to social and legal pressure.

The original beverage contained cocaine, an alkaloid extracted from the coca leaf, until the formula was changed before the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act in 1906. … In an astounding deal negotiated in 1899, two lawyers in Chattanooga, Tennessee—Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Joseph Brown Whitehead—obtained the rights to bottle Coca-Cola throughout the United States except in Mississippi, where Joseph A. Biedenharn of Vicksburg had obtained rights in 1894.

Coca leaves were used in Coca-Cola's preparation; the small amount of cocaine they contained – along with caffeine originally sourced from kola nuts– provided the drink's "tonic" quality. In 1903, cocaine was removed, leaving caffeine as the sole stimulant ingredient, and all medicinal claims were dropped.

Coca leaves were used in Coca-Cola's preparation; the small amount of cocaine they contained – along with caffeine originally sourced from kola nuts– provided the drink's "tonic" quality. In 1903, cocaine was removed, leaving caffeine as the sole stimulant ingredient, and all medicinal claims were dropped.

In 1885 a reporter from the Atlanta Journal approached the creator of French Wine Coca and asked him for a detailed analysis of the new drink. Pemberton replied, “It is composed of an extract from the leaf of Peruvian Coca, the purest wine, and the Kola nut.

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The name refers to two of its original ingredients: coca leaves and kola nuts(a source of caffeine).

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

In 1894, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Joseph A. Biedenharn was so impressed by the growing demand for Coca‑Cola at his soda fountain that he installed bottling machinery in the rear of his store and began to sell cases of Coca‑Cola to farms and lumber camps up and down the Mississippi River. He was the first bottler of Coca‑Cola.

Though Coca-Cola had been invented in 1886 in Atlanta, Georgia by the pharmacist John S. Pemberton, it was not sold in bottles until Joseph Biedenharn developed the new procedure.

Dr. John Stith Pemberton, a local pharmacist, produced the syrup for Coca‑Cola, and carried a jug of the new product down the street to Jacobs' Pharmacy, where it was sampled, pronounced "excellent" and placed on sale for five cents a glass as a soda fountain drink.

In 1899, two Chattanooga lawyers, Joseph Whitehead and Benjamin Thomas, traveled to Atlanta to negotiate the rights to bottle Coca‑Cola. The product had been an increasingly popular soda fountain drink established a mere 13 years previously.

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