What is cola made of?
Cola takes 8 things directly, among them oranges, vanilla extract, caramel color, phosphoric acid, sugar and corn syrup. Trace them back and you pass 18 made things on the way to 15 raw materials.
How cola is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 15 raw materials
- Oranges goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Vanilla pods through vanilla extract
- Phosphate rock through phosphoric acid
- Silica sand through phosphoric acid
- Sugarcane through sugar
- Sugar beet through sugar
- Corn through carbon dioxide
- Natural gas through carbon dioxide
- Limestone through carbon dioxide
- Barley through caramel color, malted barley
- Air through caramel color, ammonia
- Sulfur through phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid
- Coal through phosphoric acid, coke
- Crude oil through vanilla extract, ethanol, ethylene, naphtha
Made along the way: 12 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 7
Food 4
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.