UNLOCKING COCA COLA'S SECRET FORMULA!! (Patreon)

Today on "Seeing how far we can push the big corporations", I'll be attempting to expose the top-secret Coca Cola flavor recipe...apparently known by only a few individuals or something. Why? I hate secrets and love poking the bear, hehehe

So, how is an average college student going to do what nobody else can seem to do? Will I just experiment randomly like most YouTubers? Am I going to break into Big Cola and extract the info secret agent-style? No silly...I'm going to cheat using Neptunium!

...sorry, that might sound a bit confusing, especially if you think I'm referring to the highly radioactive nuclear fuel...Neptunium is a smaller chemistry channel on YouTube, and he happens to have a gas chromatography mass spectrometer (GC-MS) at home! Basically, he can take stuff and analyze what's in it, and he's agreed to collab and help me analyze Coca Cola and a few other soda variants.

To be clear, GC-MS won't perfectly reveal the recipe for Coca Cola. It doesn't give precise amounts of each component, and it can only give you a general idea of what is present. So I'm not too worried about Coca Cola coming after me and my video lol...I'll be happy if we can just identify some of the most likely culprits (cinnamaldehyde from cinnamon flavor, vanillin from vanilla, safrole and myristicin from nutmeg, limonene from citrus and neroli...trace cocaine from coca if it is still used...).

Once we have an idea of what goes into Coca Cola, I will try my best to replicate the recipe on my own. This will likely involve some chemistry (basic flavor extractions from stuff like nutmeg, lime, etc), and a series of Taguchi array-style tests for max efficiency, but nothing too daunting. I'm still in school, after all, so I can't exhaust too much time right now! And besides, this is meant to be a quick, fun project, so we'll see how it goes!

Also, general update: my next video will be about methylamine (Incogni-sponsored, due in March), followed by the diethylamine video shortly after. This Cola video might be sooner or later...Vince from Neptunium will be doing the analysis in a few weeks, and I just got some of the ingredients I'm expecting, so the video might be done in April if college is forgiving. We shall see!