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John Stith Pemperson invented this brown lemonade in 1886. The pharmacy wholesaler Asa Griggs Candler acquired the rights to Coca-Cola for 2,300 dollars shortly before the death of the inventor. He founded the "Coca-Cola Company" in 1892. In 1893 Candler had Coca-Cola protected as a trademark and marketed it in the USA. From 1896 he marketed it in neighboring countries. The drink was sold in Germany for the first time in 1929.
Today, every German is supposed to drink over 40 litres of cola a year. The drink Coca-Cola, also called Coke, is the absolute market leader in Germany. We know that the brown lemonade is not exactly beneficial to health. Because one litre of Coca-Cola contains almost 40 pieces of sugar cubes. The secrecy surrounding the recipe for the brown lemonade is fuelling the rumour mill even more.
Cola eats through teeth
Wrong! The phosphoric acid contained in cola damages the tooth enamel. This is the breeding ground for caries. Condition: drink at least one litre of the brown lemonade per day. Anyone who consumes other phosphorus-containing drinks will experience the same effect.
Cola dissolves the stomach and decomposes meat
Wrong! The rumor is said to have been started by the National Socialists to damage the reputation of Coca-Cola. The stomach acid is much more concentrated than the acid in cola. The stomach walls are protected by a protective layer. I myself have heard that an employee fell into a large container of Coca-Cola concentrate at the beverage manufacturer and the meat would have been immediately detached from the skeleton. Surely a fictional story.
Cola is an ingenious rust remover
Right! Put rusty nails into the cola for 15 to 20 hours and the rust will say goodbye. Wrap a pair of rusty pliers in a linen cloth soaked in cola and seal them airtight in a plastic bag. Leave it for several hours and the rust will say goodbye.
Cola dissolves urine stone in the toilet bowl
Right! Pour one or two bottles of cola into the basin and leave them overnight. If there are any leftovers, repeat the process.
Coca-Cola contains small amounts of cocaine
Wrong! The drink got its name because it is said to have originally contained extracts from the leaves of the coca plant. Supposedly, one liter in the early years contained over 40 mg of cocaine. The company says that the drink never contained cocaine at any time.
Cola-Light and Mentos is a highly explosive mixture
Wrong! Moravia says that a person who drinks a glass of cola and then swallows a Mentos dies from it. Here the conspirators refer to a little boy from Brazil who died of it. A professor is also cited who has confirmed all this. Unfortunately, the professor is as fictional as the Brazilian boy.
Light Coke does indeed react with Mentos. There are some video clips on the Internet about this. But, this "sweet explosive charge" can not harm the stomach and does not look deadly.
The recipe of Coca-Cola is so secret that only two people in the world know it
Wrong! At the Suntrust Bank in Atlanta, the prescription's supposed to be in a vault. Only two people have a key to this safe. So far, no one has been able to decipher the secret formula. Coke is not only bottled in Atlanta, but in other places as well. The ingredients come from the USA, where they have already been mixed. So other locations that bottle the drink only know part of the recipe. Every now and then there is a report in the big media that Mister X has deciphered the recipe, which turns out to be duck. This attracts a lot of attention to the company. Critics consider this a successful marketing coup directed against Pepsi.
Cola attacks the bones
NO! The phosphoric acid contained in the drink prevents the bones from absorbing calcium. American studies say: has only been observed in teenagers, especially girls.
Cola-Light is even more unhealthy than normal cola
Wrong! Opponents of cola are of the opinion that aspartame (sweetener) is much more unhealthy than sugar. The limit in the EU is 40mg per kilogram of body weight. So a person who weighs 65 kilograms would have to drink 24.7 litres of it per day. In 2011, the European Food Safety Authority classified aspartame as safe.
Cola promotes diabetes
NO! Diabetes is promoted by unbalanced nutrition, overweight and too little physical activity. People who consume excessive amounts of cola daily will put on weight and increase the risk of diabetes for themselves.
Cola is a good contraceptive
Wrong! In the 1980s, an American medical doctor examined whether cola killed sperm cells. She mixed several kinds of the drink together and added fresh sperm. Her assumption was confirmed. After a few years, researchers from Taiwan re-enacted the experiment and came up with different results. Neither Coke nor Pepsi was able to kill the sperm. So the brown drink is neither a vaginal washer or a drink, not a safe contraceptive.
Cola makes you jumpy and nervous
NO! Cola contains far less caffeine than good coffee. There are people who get nervous and nervous when they have a low caffeine intake. These are so-called "vegetative types". It doesn't matter if coffee or coke is the cause and trigger.
Cola is harmful to the bones
Right! Black soda contains many phosphate compounds that prevent the absorption of calcium into the bones. This reduces bone density and the risk of fractures is very high. But this only applies to regular cola consumption.
