Coca leaf was, and still is, an ingredient in coca-cola.
So both cocaine and coca-cola are made with coca leaf, but coca-cola is not and never has been made with cocaine.
The FDA considers caffeine an ingredient in things like soda and energy drinks because it's dosed and added to the beverage. But the FDA doesn't consider the naturally occurring caffeine in coffee beans as an ingredient in something like coffee beans or a canned cold brew. A manufacturer might list caffeine content to help consumers but they aren't required to do so.
Is gluten an ingredient in flour? Not to the FDA but it's still in there. Is sugar an ingredient in fresh squeezed orange juice? No but it's still in there.
https://www.justthinktwice.gov/article/did-coca-cola-ever-co...
Before the criminalization of cocaine, however, the extract was not decocainized
So they are right that cocaine was not intentionally added.
But actually cocaine was intentionally added, as a byproduct of adding Coca.
More complete excerpt:
> Before the criminalization of cocaine, however, the extract was not decocainized, and hence Coca-Cola's original formula did indeed include cocaine.
You can still get a buzz off chewing raw coca leaf, but it's not in the same ballpark as doing a line in NYC, SV, or Miami. I recall from Drugs Inc, it's more like a caffeine effect when consumed this way.
The funny thing is that the slideshow at the bottom of the page gives anyone with even a limited knowledge of alkali extraction (like DMT acid-base) everything they need to know about extracting cocaine.
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/business/how-coca-cola-ob...
yeah the same way thc is not an ingredient in your roommate's special brownies
No one claims cocaine contains coca-cola.
Coca-Cola contained coca leaf contains cocaine (in small amounts?)
Cocaine is made from coca leaf (which does not contain Coca-Cola)
From Wikipedia
"Sugar Free" is based entirely on the amount of sugar per serving size of finished product. It does not care where the sugar came from. Any product that contains less than 0.5 grams of sugar per serving can be labeled "Sugar Free".
This has the fun outcome that tiny candies made entirely of sugar can be sold as "Sugar Free"
Indeed, that was the point of the meraphor. By the same token it is wrong to say origi nal coca-cola was cocaine free.