These are the ingredient behind the Unique Taste of Coca-Cola

This drink would have a very famous around the world, and of course we are still curious about the taste of its carbonated drinks it. Here's the explanation.

Cola flavor that often we drink comes from a kola nut, kola nut tree it came from Vera Cola, Cola acuminata, Cola Nitida or, original genus of tropical rainforests in Africa. In its fresh bean is white. But after being dried, the color changed to red-brown. In just one cola fruit to about 12 seeds.

 Kola Nuts

The smell is released from the beans like roses. When the beans were initially tastes bitter, it gradually became sweet pea if chewed. To get the extract, kola nut can be boiled. Because the nut contains caffeine like coffee, you should if you want to use these beans in the ground just enough.

The kola nut is used as flavorings began to drink occurred in 1800. Pharmacists in Georgia, named John Pemberton taking leaf extract and kola cola (as material for cocaine). Both were then mixed with sugar, carbonated water, and other ingredients until it became the first cola drink. Accountant tried this herb and called it Coca-Cola.

Cocaine use in the soft drink very banned in America after 1904. Well, since then Kola is no longer in use in the original recipe of Coca-Cola itself. Drinks that still exist is if we drink still tasted like peanut kolanya, but the flavor was made ​​from synthetic flavorings.

Did you know?, Kola nut proved beneficial a lot .. in addition to the image of the taste of Coca-Cola, kola nut apparently plays a very important role in the culture of Nigeria, especially the Igbo tribe. Its function is diverse, ranging from objects for offerings, ceremonies, fortune telling, welcomed the guests, to cure various diseases. Kan great ..

According to Ghana Web, kola nuts in it contains caffeine, tannin, phlobaphens, kola red, betaine, protein, starch, fat, thiamine, riboflavin, and niacin. Also from the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that the use of kola only as a stimulant alone. Actually, kola itself does not cause any dependency and also does not cause depression for a drink.

Differences with Ghana's opinion, in western Uganda kola nut is apparently considered as increasing virility.!!, According eksiklopedia Britannica, in Brazil the kola nut is used as an herbal remedy for solved intoxication and hangover. However, these properties are not present in soft drinks such as Coca-Cola.