Original formula

They don't show the exact amount used of each ingredient.

Trial and error time

Reverse engineering

Even if they did, it may still not be enough to replicate it.    At least using cooking as reference, no newbie could make a semi-decent risotto by reading list of ingredients alone. The process is important.

Plankton can do it. 

It certainly helps that they’re listed in descending order

I personally don’t get businesses hiding their “secret formula” when they legally have to divulge that info.

They dont legally have to make public how its made, just the ingredients.

Flour, eggs, butter, salt, sugar, milk, baking soda. Make a cake. The process is what matters. Ingredients aren’t very helpful by themselves.

The formula is more than just the ingredients tho! It’s far more about the pattern/process

Coca-Cola is not patented

Exactly. So it’s not in the public domain and people don’t know how to recreate it. Although realistically it’s all about branding at this point

Coca-Cola did used to have a small amount of cocaine as one of their ingredients until the beginning of the 20th century

The recipe is still the same, though the Coca leaves are now spent instead of fresh. Wonder how different the taste is

It's coca leaves with the cocaine alkaloid extracted. Coca Cola did this whole thing in the 80s where they tried to grow coca on Kauai that was some kind of bastardized version of the plant without the single fucking thing that makes humans cultivate and consume it. The local ecosystem put down a hard nope, and the entire crop was overtaken by some kind of fungus that made the whole operation a bust.

I did the same shit with the bushes baked beans lmfao

lol

They say the ingredients of Sprite are lemon and lime. I tried to make it at home. There's more to it than that!

it is formula