The original Coca-Cola drink had all kinds of questionable ingredients, such as cocaine-laced coca leaves and caffeine from the kola nut. Coca-Kola later became Coca-Cola for marketing purposes.

A distillery in a small Spanish town has claimed it invented the original Coca-Cola recipe and now wants recognition. The recipe for what was originally called “Kola-coca” is reportedly kept ...

How Coca-Cola conquered the South and crushed the competition. Coca-Cola, born in an Atlanta pharmacy in 1886, has become one of the most recognized brands on the globe ...

Coca-Cola isn't sweating a report that the original Coke recipe was created in a small Spanish village rather than by pharmacist John Pemberton. El Pais reported late last month that the world’s ...

Glass also talked to author Mark Pendergrast, who claims to have found the original Coca-Cola recipe in Coke's archives while researching his 1993 expose, "For God, Country & Coca-Cola." ...

The backlash was so intense that the company reversed course within three months, bringing back the original recipe under the name Coca-Cola Classic. At the time, Pepsi was riding high with a ...