A Coca-Cola bottle opens with a phsst sound in the summer. When you pour the drink into the glass, bubbles appear on top. As you take a sip, the popping bubbles make you feel cool and calm.
I can’t even begin to understand how popular this soft drink is. On its website, Coca-Cola says that every day, people in more than 200 countries and regions drink 2.2 billion cans of the drink. It’s sold all over the world, but the recipe for it is said to be a trade secret.
Many people have tried for years to replicate its method, but no one has succeeded. However, the founder of the LabCoatz YouTube channel recently said that he had finally figured it out. LabCoatz is a YouTube site about Science and engineering that posts movies of projects and materials related to Science.
The YouTuber said that after a year of studying, trying different ingredients, and many rounds of beta testing, he had finally made a drink that tasted almost exactly like Coca-Cola.
The Protected History of Coca-Cola’s Recipe
On the back of a bottle or can of Coca-Cola, you can read that it contains sugar, caffeine, salt, and natural flavours. Which natural tastes are those? That’s the closely kept secret.
There are more important things in the world than this 140-year-old recipe. In what way? Because the company doesn’t have to share a recipe that very few people know, Coca-Cola’s secret recipe isn’t copyrighted.
The idea for Coca-Cola came from Dr John S. Pemberton in 1886. It was a secret he told only a few people over the phone. Asa Candler bought the business’s rights in 1892 and is now the company’s sole owner.
Asa Candler and his family sold the business to Earnest Woodruff and a group of partners in 1919. They also asked Candler’s son to write down the drink’s recipe and place it in a box at the New York Guarantee Bank until the loan was repaid in 1925.
In addition to claiming the recipe, Woodruff took it to Atlanta and kept it safe in the Trust Company Bank, which is now called SunTrust. It stayed safe there for 86 years before being moved to the World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Somebody on YouTube says they have figured out how to make Coca-Cola.
Four days ago, the YouTuber posted a video titled “Stealing The Coca-Cola Secret Formula (With Science).” It has already been seen 3.3 million times.
“Coca-Cola is large… He started the 25-minute movie by saying, “Only a few people know what it’s made of.” He laughed at the steps taken to protect the formula and even made fun of the latest AI advert that went viral around Christmas 2025.
“Company half-heartedly promotes with horrible out-of-touch AI commercial,” said the man. He started by saying that he knew the Coca-Cola mix couldn’t be copied, but he wanted to get as close as possible to the real taste.
One litre of Coca-Cola has 110 grammes of sugar, 96 milligrams of caffeine, 0.64 grammes of phosphoric acid, and some colour that gives it its distinctive brown colour, according to the YouTuber. He was obsessed with finding out the natural tastes, which are never made public.
He tried out different kinds of essential oils, such as pepper, orange, clove, cinnamon, and more. Even recipes from the internet, like Dr John Stith Pemberton’s original Coca-Cola recipe, which calls for sugar, water, lime juice, and a secret flavour called “Merchandise 7X” and a fluid extract of cocaine, were tried to be made the same.
Lastly, he said that tannins, which are found in tea and wine, helped him get closer to how Coca-Cola really tasted. He explained, “It has a dry and astringent taste, which helps to mask the sweet flavours, and since they are non-volatile, they don’t show up on gas-based mass spectrum.”
He got his friends and other people to try Lab-Cola after he made it. He told us, “The general consensus is Lab-Cola could be mistaken for the real Coca-Cola.”
The YouTuber seems to have found the secret. It would be interesting to hear from people who make the Coca-Cola name about how similar Lab-Cola tastes to the world’s most famed soft drink.
