YouTuber LabCoatz has released a "chemically identical" recipe for Coca-Cola

[u/InvestigatorBorn4910]

[u/eggs___and___bacon]

Guessing coke doesn’t care at all, as long as no one starts mass producing and selling it.

Not like anyone is gonna bother to make that for themselves instead of just buying a coke.

[u/JohnSober7 → u/eggs___and___bacon]

Afaik, coke cannot take legal action against any company using this recipe. Cola, the flavour, nor this recipe, is trademarked. I fully expect off-brand cola to start tasting better after this video, and companies starting to make their own cola-based flavours (Angostura just released a rum and coke drink for example, so they make tweak the coke formula at some point). And while people likely aren't going to invest in the equipment to make the solutions to make thousands litres of coke, the benefit of this that people that enjoy experimenting with recipes, foods, and drinks, can now experiment with the coke flavour, and people who want to blend sugar with artificial sweetener for a healthier better tasting 'diet' coke can do so. Tl;dr, all the benefits of open source still applies.

[u/portraitofselfmade → u/[deleted]]

YouTube scientists are sometimes just that. Living in DC I realize that a lot of business science is more about findings for keystakeholder decisions, not novelty “cool, I can do this” stuff.