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[[Image:Cola.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Coca cola]]
'''Cola''' is a sweet, carbonated drink usually with [[caramel]] colouring and containing caffeine.

Originally invented by the druggist John Pemberton, it has become popular worldwide. '''Coca-Cola''' and '''Pepsi''' have become the major international brands, leading to the drink often being seen as a symbol of the United States.
===Flavouring===
Despite the name, the primary flavouring ingredients in a cola drink are [[sugar]], citrus oils ([[orange]], [[lime]], or lemon fruit peel), [[cinnamon]], [[vanilla]], and an acidic flavourant. Many different manufacturers of cola drinks add other trace ingredients to the drink in addition to these flavourings in order to create distinctively different tastes for each brand. Trace flavourings may include [[nutmeg]], [[lavender]], and a wide variety of ingredients, but the base flavourings that most people identify with a cola taste remain [[vanilla]] and [[cinnamon]]. [[Kola nuts]], which have a bitter taste, contribute little or no flavour to most cola recipes. Acidity is often provided by phosphoric acid, sometimes accompanied by citric or other isolated acids.

Inexpensive colas may contain only [[vanilla]] and [[cinnamon]] as flavourings, which provide a simple cola taste. Many cola drink recipes are closely-guarded secrets of their manufacturers, with the recipe used by Coca-Cola being perhaps the most famous in this respect.

In addition to sweeteners such as [[high fructose corn syrup]], many other sweeteners may be used as the sweetening ingredient in cola, including [[sugar]], [[stevia]], or an artificial sweetener depending on product and market. "Sugar-free" or "diet" colas contain artificial sweeteners only.

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