The chemical side of Coca-Cola

Hi everyone, today I would like to talk about a person who I admire a lot because he’s an expert in chemistry and he created a distinguished drink.

His name is John Stith Pemberton, he was born in Georgia, in 1831. He was an American pharmacist recognized for having created the formula of Coca-Cola.

He studied to be a pharmacist and graduated at the age of nineteen years old. He fought in Seseción’s war in 1865, where he was wounded because of a sabre cut on his chest. To calm the pain he used morphine, to which he became addicted. In search of a cure for his addiction, he worked on creating a drink that will help him and invented Coca-Cola. In the beginning, it was called Pemberton’s French Wine Coca.

His idea was to find the formula of a perfect alcoholic beverage, and in his research, he found information about the virtues of the coca plant to stimulate, help digestión, and more health benefits, so he decided to use it in his master formula, which was ready on May 8, in 1889.

He was mainly interested in getting the cure for headaches and anxiety and ended up creating the drink that combinate lime, cinnamon, coca leaves and seeds of Brazilian bush.

And of course, I like him because he created one of my favourites drinks that I use for my perfects alcoholics beverages at the present.