Disciplines of Coca Cola

Coca Cola can be looked at through several different disciplines. These disciplines break the product down so that we can understand it better. One of these types of disciplines is a biologist. A biologist is an expert when it comes to living organisms throughout the world. The biologist broke down the drink into two main ingredients, the coca leaf and the kola plant. When chewed coca acts as a stimulant that surprises hunger, thirst, and fatigue. It helps overcome altitude sickness, and it was used in ancient times for people to have the pleasure of a high.

The kola nut is claimed to,” sweeten stale water, treats fatigue, hunger pangs, infections, various skin diseases and ulcers, toothaches and sore gums, morning sickness, difficult labours, irregular menstrual cycles, colic and assorted intestinal diseases, headaches, depression, flagging libidos, severe coughs, asthma, various eye diseases, and both dysentery and constipation,” according to Dawn Starin (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine). So it makes perfect sense to why John Pemberton would put these in a medicine, but is it really healthy as a drink? According to several health websites, no. Coca Cola has ten teaspoons of sugar in one can, which is your daily recommended amount all at once. If you try going for Diet Coke it is even worse because they put such dangerous ingredients in the drink to create the zero calorie version. This has lead to many detrimental health issues such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity, etc. Many scientists find that the epidemic of diabetes comes from the soda that we drink everyday. The sugar in your drink releases certain chemicals in your brain that make you feel like you should drink more and more.

All of the impacts on humans lead us to how the drink is made. Chemists break down and experiment with everything that is in Coca Cola. The Coca Cola company states that some of the main ingredients are “Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Caramel Color, Phosphoric Acid, Natural Flavors, Caffeine.” If we dig a little bit deeper into all of those ingredients we can understand why one soft drink can have such bad impacts on your health. Lets start out with high fructose corn syrup. Studies show that high fructose corn syrup is very similar to table sugar, however it has very different impacts on the health of humans. According to Harvard health,”High-fructose corn syrup is derived from cornstarch, which is first broken down to create a substance that is 100% glucose.”(Harvard Health). They add enzymes to the glucose to turn it into fructose. Both sugar and fructose corn syrup have negative effects on the body if too much is consumed. On the another note, historians have a large part to play in the breakdown of Coca Cola. They can trace back the Coca leaf and the Kola plant to their natural substance and see how that is added into the drink. Before the coca leaf was put into Coca Cola people used it as a stimulant that would give them the sensation of a “high”.

According to the Emergency Medicine International website, “Under Incan rule, coca was used for numerous purposes, including ritual, social, and physiological uses.” This shows that the coca leaf has been around for a very long time. So it wouldn’t be surprising if that is one of the reasons why Coca Cola is so addictive because of the side effects that ancient Incan people had while using the Coca leaf. To conclude, several biologists, chemists, and historians have helped us break down Coca Cola to get the knowledge we know today.

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