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[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

After 1904, instead of using fresh leaves, Coca-Cola started using "spent" leaves – the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with trace levels of cocaine.[77] Since then (by 1929[78]), Coca-Cola has used a cocaine-free coca leaf extract. Today, that extract is prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey, the only manufacturing plant authorized by the federal government to import and process coca leaves, which it obtains from Peru and Bolivia.[79] Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it then sells to Mallinckrodt, the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use.[80]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#Coca_leaf

So it still has coca extract, just not the cocaine part.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

C'mon Stepan Company, you could be a bro and "accidentally" let just a smidge through the final product.

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

It's like a non alcoholic beer

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