This is the first time in Israel that Coca Cola will be manufactured as a popular drink without preservatives or artificial food coloring. It seems that more and more Israelis are becoming health conscious these days.

Coca-Cola Israel will actually be the first to produce a healthier version of the drink, while at the same time maintaining its taste, shelf-life, and of course, kashrut. Our thanks to Muzi Werthiem, Cola-Cola Israel's owner who initiated the change. The move, as they say, commenced after receiving market surveys which clearly showed the Israeli consumer's preference of products without preservatives and artificial colorings. I am hoping that other countries will follow this motion after all, people worldwide are becoming environmental oriented.

So for those Coca Cola lovers....you could now drink much to your gusto! And for those who still wants to know more about their favorite drink, read on to some interesting details.


Coca Cola was actually invented as a patent medicine, called cocawine, in the late 19th century by a certain John Pemberton in Covington, Georgia. It's first name was Pemberton's French Wine Coca. But then it was sold to a businessman, named Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft drink market throughout the 20th century.

The beverage was named Coca-Cola because, originally, the stimulant mixed in the beverage was coca leaves from South America. In addition, the drink was flavored using kola nuts, also acting as the beverage's source of caffeine. Pemberton called for five ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup, a significant dose, whereas, in 1891, Candler claimed his formula (altered extensively from Pemberton's original) contained only a tenth of this amount. Coca-Cola did once contain an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass but after 1904 Coca-Cola started using, instead of fresh leaves, "spent" leaves - the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with cocaine trace levels left over at a molecular level. However, as cocaine is one of numerous alkaloids present in the coca leaf, it was nevertheless present in the drink. Today, the flavoring is still done with kola nuts and the "spent" coca leaf. In the United States, there is only one plant (in New Jersey) authorized by the Federal Government to grow the coca plant for Coca-Cola syrup manufacture.

Coca-Cola was initially sold as a patent medicine for five cents a glass at soda fountains, which were popular in the United States at the time thanks to a belief that carbonated water was good for the health. Mr. Pemberton claimed Coca-Cola cured a myriad of diseases, including morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and impotence. The first sales were made at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886, and for the first eight months only nine drinks were sold each day.

Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time on March 12, 1894, and cans of Coke first appeared in 1955.

The first bottling of Coca-Cola occurred in Vicksburg, Mississippi, at the Biedenharn Candy Company in 1891.

The original bottles sold were Biedenharn bottles, very different from the much later hobble-skirt design that is now so familiar.

In 1995, after the success of the double-blind taste tests indicating that most consumers preferred the taste of Pepsi (which had more lemon oil, less orange oil, and used vanillin rather than vanilla) to Coke, Coca Cola changed it's formula and created the "New Coke". It seems that the drinkers prefer more the taste of Pepsi because of it's sweeter taste. Follow-up taste tests revealed that most consumers preferred the taste of New Coke to both Coke and Pepsi.

The commercial failure of New Coke as a grievous blow to the management of the Coca-Cola Company. Because of some protests, it has caused the company to return to the old formula under the name Coca-Cola Classic on July 10, 1985.

The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest consumer of natural vanilla extract.

On February 7, 2005, the Coca-Cola Company announced the launching of a Diet Coke, product sweetened with the artificial sweetener sucralose ("Splenda"), the same sweetener currently used in Pepsi One.

On March 21, 2005, it announced another diet product, "Coca-Cola Zero", sweetened partly with a blend of aspartame and acesulfame potassium. Recently Coca-Cola has begun to sell a new "healthy soda," Diet Coke with Vitamins B6, B12, A, and C added.

The original copy of the formula of Coke (which is a secret, by the way) is held in SunTrust Bank's main vault in Atlanta. A popular myth states that only two executives have access to the formula, with each executive having only half the formula.[18] The truth is that while Coca-Cola does have a rule restricting access to only two executives, each knows the entire formula and others, in addition to the prescribed duo, have known the formulation process.

A certain Earl Dean made the famous Contour Coca-Cola Bottle.The famous Coca-Cola logotype was created by John Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank Mason Robinson, in 1885. It was Robinson who came up with the name, and he also chose the logo’s distinctive cursive script, known as Spencer.

In January 2007, Coca-Cola Canada changed "Coca-Cola Classic" labelling, removing the "Classic" designation, leaving only "Coca-Cola". Coca-Cola stated this is merely a name change and the product remains the same.

Pepsi is often second to Coke in terms of sales, but outsells Coca-Cola in some localities.

In the 1970s, a song from a Coca-Cola commercial called "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", produced by Billy Davis, became a popular hit single.

Selena was a spokesperson for Coca-Cola from 1989 till the time of her death. She filmed three commercials for the company. In 1994 to commemorate her 5 years with the company, Coca-Cola issued special Selena coke bottles.

Coca-Cola was the first-ever sponsor of the Olympic games, at the 1928 games in Amsterdam and has been an Olympics sponsor ever since.

Coca-Cola is the official soft drink of the Georgia Bulldogs.

In England, Coca-Cola is the main sponsor of The Football League, a name given to the three professional divisions below the Premier League in football (soccer).

There are some consumer boycotts of Coca-Cola in Arab countries due to Coke's early investment in Israel during the Arab League boycott of Israel (this contrasts sharply to Pepsi which stayed out of Israel).[51] Mecca Cola has been successful in the Middle East as an alternative.

The Coca-Cola Company has produced and have been marketing other cola drinks such as Sprite, Fanta, Pibb, Powerade, and others.

Types of Coke
Coca-Cola
New Coke (renamed Coke II)
Diet Coke (also known as Coca-Cola Light)
Caffeine free Coca-Cola Classic
Caffeine free Diet Coke
Diet Coke Plus
Coca-Cola C2
Coca-Cola Zero
Coca-Cola Cherry Zero
Coca-Cola Cherry
Diet Coke Cherry
Coca-Cola with Lemon
Diet Coke with Lemon
Coca-Cola Vanilla
Diet Coca-Cola Vanilla
Coca-Cola with Lime
Diet Coke with Lime
Coca-Cola Raspberry
Diet Coke Raspberry
Coca-Cola Black Cherry Vanilla
Diet Coke Cherry Vanilla
Coca-Cola Blāk
TaB (original Diet Coke, still available in some countries)


Things You Don't Know About Coca Cola
1. Slogans Coca Cola Company had used since 1886
1886 - Drink Coca-Cola.
1904 - Delicious and refreshing.
1905 - Coca-Cola revives and sustains.
1906 - The great national temperance beverage.
1908 - Good til the last drop
1917 - Three million a day.
1922 - Thirst knows no season.
1923 - Enjoy life
1924 - Refresh Yourself
1925 - Six million a day.
1926 - It had to be good to get where it is.
1927 - Pure as Sunlight
1927 - Around the corner from anywhere.
1928 - Coca-Cola ... pure drink of natural flavors.
1929 - The pause that refreshes.
1932 - Ice-cold sunshine.
1938 - The best friend thirst ever had.
1938 - Thirst asks nothing more.
1939 - Coca-Cola goes along.
1939 - Coca-Cola has the taste thirst goes for.
1939 - Whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you may be, when you think of refreshment, think of icecold Coca-Cola.
1942 - The only thing like Coca-Cola is Coca-Cola itself.
1948 - Where there's Coke there's hospitality.
1949 - Coca-Cola ... along the highway to anywhere.
1952 - What you want is a Coke.
1956 - Coca-Cola ... makes good things taste better.
1957 - Sign of good taste.
1958 - The Cold, Crisp Taste of Coke
1959 - Be really refreshed.
1963 - Things go better with Coke.
1969 - It's the real thing
1975 - Look Up America.
1976 - Coke adds life.
1979 - Have a Coke and a smile
1982 - Coke is it!
1985 - America's Real Choice
1986 - Red White & You (for Coca-Cola Classic)
1986 - Catch the Wave (for New Coke)
1987 - You Can't Beat the Feeling.
1989 - Can't beat the real thing.
1993 - Always Coca-Cola.
2000 - Enjoy.
2001 - Life tastes Good.
2003 - Real.
2003 - Japan No Reason.
2005 - Make It Real.
2006 - The Coke Side of Life.