{"id":9457,"date":"2009-07-24T16:26:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T00:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9457"},"modified":"2009-07-24T16:26:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T00:26:50","slug":"the-kosher-history-of-coca-cola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9457","title":{"rendered":"The Kosher History Of Coca Cola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/hirhurim.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/coca-cola-kosher-history.html\">Nachum Lamm posts<\/a>: The most important part of the ingredients is &quot;natural flavors,&quot; which is undefined.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t much matter if people knew Coke&#8217;s formula: There is one legal importer of coca leaves in the United States. It extracts the cocaine and sends it all to a single pharmaceutical company, sole producer of medicinal cocaine in this country. It sends all the de-cocained leaves to Coca-Cola for flavoring. There&#8217;s no other way to legally get cocaine leaves, and they won&#8217;t sell them to anyone but Coca-Cola. (The source of the other half of the name, Kola nuts, are a source of caffeine and are replaced with artificial equivalents in almost all colas today.)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, well over 90% (over 95%, probably) of any soft drink is water, carbon dioxide, and sweetener, all of which are added at bottling plants, not the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nachum Lamm posts: The most important part of the ingredients is &quot;natural flavors,&quot; which is undefined. It doesn&#8217;t much matter if people knew Coke&#8217;s formula: There is one legal importer of coca leaves in the United States. It extracts the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9457\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[18303,18302,18300,7226,18301,18304],"class_list":["post-9457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodoxy","tag-bottling-plants","tag-history-of-coca-cola","tag-kola-nuts","tag-nachum","tag-natural-flavors","tag-sole-producer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9458,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457\/revisions\/9458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}