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Originally Posted by harry
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I contacted coke about this and here is what they said:
A 250 mL serving of Coca-Cola Classic contains 45 mg of phosphorus.� The amount of phosphoric acid is proprietary.�
Looked at another way, there are 18 mg of phosphorus per 100 ml. in Coca-Cola Classic.� This is equivalent to the amount of phosphorus, for example, in orange juice and considerably less than in milk, cheese, and bread.�Proportionately, meat products have more phosphorus than any other food.� In fact, the phosphorus in cola beverages contributes 3% or less of the total dietary intake of phosphorus.
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I have no idea how much phosphorus there is in Coke, but phosphorus and phsphoric acid are not the same thing just like carbon and carbon dioxide are not the same thing. And, of course, a ml of water weighs very close to one gram, so in approximately 100 grams of Coca-Cola, there are 18 milligrams of phosphorus, or about eighteen one thousandths of one percent, which is a TRACE amount, hardly the primary ingredient.
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9. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8.
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No, the active ingredients in Coke are sugar and caffeine. If phosphoric acid was the active ingredient in Coke, people who like drinking Coke would enjoy drinking phosphoric acid toilet bowl cleaner diluted with water.
Leave a glass of Coke and a plastic bottle cap full of phosphoric acid toilet bowl cleaner sitting over night and taste the Coke in the morning. I won't taste acidic at all. So, where did the phosphoric acid go to? The phosphoric acid toilet bowl cleaner, on the other hand, will still taste extremely acidic just as it did before.
The acidic "bite" in the taste of all soft drinks, beer, sparkling wines and soda water is due to carbonic acid. That acidity in the taste disappears as the CO2 dissipates from the beverage. That's why soft drinks go "flat" if left open too long.
Phosphoric acid toilet bowl cleaner doesn't get weaker if left out overnight.
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Naval jelly and Coke are the same thing.
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No. Naval jelly contains significant amounts of phosphoric acid. Coke does not.