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– Answers How many people know the Coca-Cola recipe? On the one hand, Coca Cola will claim that only a few high executives and employees know the real recipe. On the other hand, there have been plenty of publications of the founder’s diary that had a recipe for it, and there has also been extensive chemical analysis of the drink.

鈥淥nly a few people鈥?鈥?not two people 鈥?鈥渋n the world.鈥?Coke was invented by Dr John Pemberton in 1886. Since then, Coca-Cola says, 鈥渢he formula has been kept under wraps, shared only with a small group鈥? (Our italics.)

The idea that the secret formula for Coca-Cola is only known by two people who are never to be allowed near one another in case of some disaster resulting in the recipe being lost forever is one of those pop culture staples people can鈥檛 help but perpetuate.

An old television commercial (second video in this article) suggested that the Coca Cola formula is held by just two men (each knowing half), and if one of them should accidentally fall, there鈥檇 be no Coke bottles.