What is cough syrup made of?
Cough syrup takes sugar, water and glycerin directly. Trace them back and you pass 9 made things on the way to 11 raw materials.
How cough syrup is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 11 raw materials
- Water goes straight in
- Sugarcane through sugar
- Sugar beet through sugar
- Limestone through sugar, quicklime
- Oil palm fruit through glycerin, palm oil
- Soybeans through glycerin, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through glycerin, vegetable oil
- Clay through glycerin, vegetable oil
- Rock salt through glycerin, caustic soda
- Natural gas through glycerin, methanol
- Crude oil through glycerin, vegetable oil, hexane
Made along the way: 7 things
Chemicals and fuels 5
Food 2
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.