Editing Kola nut (section)

===Cola recipe===
{{main|Coca-Cola formula}}
[[File:Coca-Cola Advertisement.jpg|thumb|Coca-Cola Advertisement, 1886]]
In the 1880s, a pharmacist in Georgia, [[John Pemberton]], took caffeine extracted from kola nuts and [[cocaine]]-containing extracts from [[coca]] leaves and mixed them with sugar, other flavorings, and [[carbonated water]] to invent [[Coca-Cola]], the first widely popular [[cola]] soft drink.<ref name=bbc/> Although the exact details of its cola recipe remain confidential, as of 2016, the [[Coca-Cola formula]] no longer contained actual kola nut extract,<ref name=bbc/> and an independent test conducted to identify it failed to detect its signature proteins.<ref name="Meyers" >{{cite news |author=Meyers, C. |title=How Natural Is Your Cola? |newspaper=Science NOW |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceshot-how-natural-your-cola |date=6 May 2011}}</ref>