Cola Drinks - Breif history, ingredients and the side effects

When looking at the consumption rate of cola drinks today and the health side effect, it just seems the whole world is in a great danger. But when you think back to the purpose of creation back then in the 80's; it just a medication.
So let's take a look at the History before going to the side effect

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History

The first cola drink (Coca-Cola) was invented by John Pemberton in 1886 who was a pharmacist. It was told that John Pemberton being a pharmacist made many drugs but none of them made money. but as soon as the civil war is on, He realizes an opportunity then decided to make a drug to calm people down and also cure headache.

This time back then in the 80's was the soda foundation and people get addicted to different soda easily. Then he decided to go through the part of the beverage market then the first cola drink (Coca-cola) was born. But as soon as John Pemberton dies, the cola drink start experiencing some change from the initial ingredient which makes it harmful today.

Without wasting much time, let take a look at the difference between the first cola drink and the one now.

Currently, it was told by most popular cola drinks factory manager that most of the ingredient are transported secretly to the factory. i will be using the coca-cola company as an example.
The ingredient are transported to the factory as merchandise and are numbered from 1-9 which only the factory manager has the procedure of how the mixture will go. but the major ingredient has been discovered and it very harmful to the health.

Here are the ingredients as listed on Wikipedia.

Merchandise 1 - This is known to be sugar and it very high in sucrose
Merchandise 2 - Caramel coloring
Merchandise 3 - Caffeine
Merchandise 4 - Phosphoric acid
Merchandise 5 - 9 has not yet been discovered but likely contain a mixture of essential oils such as orange, lime, and lemon.
which all the ingredient listed above has completely deviated from the main purpose and reason for the creation.

Here are the side effect

1. Caffeine and sugar addictive: Right from time, cola drinks has been addictive. But nowadays researchers found out that more sugar and caffeine are been added to cola drinks due to competition with their other partners. But once someone is addicted to it the person is likely to have a disease like diabetes.

2. Metabolism Level Decreases: Each time you take a cola drink, it reduces the rate at which your body make use of the food you eat. so therefore, storing the rest as fat and most people with low metabolism are known to be over weighted

3. Bone and teeth damage: The pH level of most cola drinks are high and ranging between 3.2 - 3.5 which prove them to be acidic and having the tendency to the human dissolve bone.

4. Kidney Failures: we all know that Artifical sweeteners and coloring affect the kidney and when we look at the component of cola drinks today, they are highly present. which much of it affects the kidney.

5. Reproduction problems: Regular consumption of cola drinks might lead to infertility due to the high presence of artificial sweeteners.

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I hope this article is helpful

Refrences

Invention of cola drinks
Coca-cola Formula
Effects of Cola drinks