Originally invented by the druggist John Pemberton, it has become popular worldwide. Today, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and RC Cola have become the major international brands, leading to the drink often being seen as a symbol of the United States.
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Originally invented by the druggist John Pemberton, it has become popular worldwide. Today, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and RC Cola have become the major international brands, leading to the drink often being seen as a symbol of the United States.
Flavoring
Despite the name, the primary flavoring ingredients in a cola drink are sugar, citrus oils (orange, lime, or lemon fruit peel), cinnamon, vanilla, and an acidic flavorant. Many different manufacturers of cola drinks add other trace ingredients to the drink in addition to these flavorings in order to create distinctively different tastes for each brand. Trace flavorings may include nutmeg, lavender, and a wide variety of ingredients, but the base flavorings that most people identify with a cola taste remain vanilla and cinnamon. Kola nuts, which have a bitter taste, contribute little or no flavor to most cola recipes. Acidity is often provided by phosphoric acid, sometimes accompanied by citric or other isolated acids.
Inexpensive colas may contain only vanilla and cinnamon as flavorings, which provide a simple cola taste Fact: date=May 2008. Many cola drink recipes are closely-guarded secrets of their manufacturers, with the recipe used by Coca-Cola being perhaps the most famous in this respect.
In addition to sweeteners such as high fructose corn syrup, many other sweeteners may be used as the sweetening ingredient in cola, including sugar, stevia, or an artificial sweetener depending on product and market. "Sugar-free" or "diet" colas contain artificial sweeteners only.
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Europe
- Alter Cola is the native cola in Catalonia, (Spain).
- American Cola and Adria Cola are the local drinks in Romania.
- Breizh Cola is a local brand from Britanny (France) it offers different and unique flavors like a cloves aroma, bottled in an original cider bottle.
- Cuba Cola is the native cola of Sweden.
- In Denmark, the native Jolly Cola was more popular than Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola during the 1960's and 70's.
- Czech and Slovak Kofola is the third best selling soft-drink in their markets behind Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
- German brand Afri-Cola had a higher caffeine content (about 250 mg/L) until the product was relaunched with a new formulation in 1999, and has it again since a second relaunch with the original formulation in April 2006.
- Virgin Cola was popular in the United Kingdom, South Africa and western European countries in the 1990s but has waned in availability.
- Barr Cola made by A.G. Barr (The makers of the popular Irn Bru drink) in the United Kingdom.
