Hello, my lovely friends, today I present you a tale about Coca-Cola from my home nation of Venezuela, which is really unsettling and worrisome. Please read my essay and share your thoughts.

According to legend, a neighbor in the Valencian hamlet of Aielo de Malferit devised the recipe for what became known as Coca Cola in the United States in 1884, and the patent was sold to the Americans. The Valencians' offering was a syrup that was entered in a beverage competition in Philadelphia in 1885, just one year before Coca-Cola was founded.

Whether it's an urban legend or not, John Stith Pemberton, a chemist and pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia, revealed a drink prepared from coca leaf and cola nut extracts diluted in soda water in 1886. The drink was marketed as energizing and stimulating. Pemberton presented the combination to Jacob's Pharmacy, which sold it for 5 cents to consumers. The beverage was originally called as 'Wine coca' (coca wine), but Pemberton's accountant, Frank M. Robinson, recommended 'Coca Cola' as a more marketable moniker.

Pemberton began selling off pieces of his firm in 1888, eventually selling the drink's patent to Asa G. Candler, who created The Coca-Cola Company in 1891. Candler made minor adjustments to the product's composition in 1892, and the new recipe was surreptitiously passed down to his successors so that only them could create the mixture. Candler registered the product with the US Industrial Property Office in 1893. Coca Cola, a formerly therapeutic syrup, became well recognized as a soft drink in 1895. From then on, manufacturers outside of Atlanta began to function, and the soft drink made its way to Canada and Mexico. According to legend, the extract of coca leaves and the cola nut were no longer utilized in 1929, and the product is now created using a secret recipe of several herbs.

Coca-Cola was not firmly established in Spain until 1951, after which multiple bottlers of the beverage sprung up in various towns. The bottlers mix the water and other ingredients into the thick syrup they get from the Atlanta factory, where it is made in complete secrecy. Earl Dean, a glass artisan, came up with the idea for the renowned Coca-Cola contour bottle, which was unique in its sort (though it has since influenced numerous containers).

There are several urban tales regarding this famous beverage that attempt to discredit it today. As a result, it is claimed that the product contains such a high amount of sugar and caffeine that the customer's health is injured without their knowledge. Naturally, this is a myth, as 19 of the top 20 Coca-Cola products do not include sugar, as they are Light versions with artificial sweeteners. There was a period when sweeteners and soft drink bottlers hastened to announce in the press that they utilized sugar instead of sweeteners. In any event, the sugar added to classic Coca-Cola is not excessive, as many people imagine; it's just enough to mask the product's initial bitterness. Without a doubt, those with diabetes or a predisposition to develop it must exercise caution while consuming sugary beverages, and it is preferable to avoid them altogether.

One of the most widely held beliefs about Coca Cola is that it is so powerful that it dissolves meat, giving the impression that it is damaging to the stomach and body in general. Many tests with beef and Coca-Cola have been conducted in this area. In the hope that the flesh would disintegrate, a piece of beef was soaked in Coca Cola for hours or even days. There hasn't been any such thing. After some time, the meat remained as it had been, indicating that the famed drink had no effect on food. This is understandable, given that the drink in question is a digestive tonic rather than an acid. Of course, taking too much of a substance is toxic, as is the case with even the most harmless drinks. Excessive behavior is harmful in every way.

Subliminal advertising is another mythology associated with Coca-Cola. According to what is known, in 1957, publicist researcher James Vicary proposed the concept of including a frame of a Coca-Cola soft drink among the 24 that make up the sequence of those presented each second in a movie. During the interval, 18% of the audience is believed to have ordered a bottle of the popular soft drink. In actuality, the number of customers who allegedly grasped the concealed message in the cinematographic projection was little in comparison to the number of observers.

Professors at several colleges even discussed the experiment as part of their curriculum. Experiments with this sort of subliminal advertising were conducted over time, and it was discovered that it did not have any results. Later evidence revealed that the Coca-Cola narrative was still false, as even Vicary said in the 1970s, claiming that subliminal advertising would be ineffective in any way since it did not reach the person's mind. Another urban legend is that Coca-Cola is used to unclog sinks, which has been proven to be false because the drink lacks the potency to even partially dissolve the grease that sticks to the pipe walls. Legend has it that Coca Cola can release a rusted screw, erase grease stains from garments, clear rust from vehicle bumpers, and even clean blood stains, with North American cops carrying jugs full of Coca Cola to suppress the blood of highway accidents. Everything has been proven to be untrue. Coca-Cola, on the other hand, does not disintegrate meat, release rusted screws, unclog drains, remove oil from clothing, remove rust from bumpers, or erase blood stains. All of this is urban mythology, most of which has been promoted by the North American multinational's own competitors.

Coca-Cola currently has over 24 million points of sale in 200 countries, employs over 71,000 people, and sells over 1,900 million bottles per day, despite the negative exposure of some urban legends. According to the consulting firm Interbrand, Coca-Cola is the most valuable commercial brand in the world.

It sells around 500 different brands and 3,500 different goods. Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Light, Fanta, and Sprite are four of the five most well-known soft drink brands in the world, and 17 of his brands are worth more than a billion dollars.