<p>Coca-Cola Malaysia's public affairs and communications director Kadri Taib said alcohol was not an ingredient and no fermentation took place during the manufacture of the drink.<br /><br />"The precise formulation of the drink is our company's most valuable trade secret.<br /><br />"The ingredients and manufacturing process are rigorously regulated by government and health authorities in more than 200 countries, including Malaysia, which have consistently <br />recognised the beverage as a non-alcoholic product," he said.<br /><br />The clarification about alcohol is essential for the beverage manufacturer in the Muslim majority nation since Islam forbids it.<br /><br />A weekly radio programme, This American Life, said it had discovered the formula from the Atlanta Journal Constitution. <br /><br />The article featured a photograph of a notebook with a handwritten list of ingredients allegedly needed to make the famous drink.<br /><br />Ingredients included lime juice, vanilla, caramel, various types of fruit-derived oils, nutmeg and alcohol. The programme claimed the notebook originally belonged to a friend of John Pemberton, the pharmacist who created Coca-Cola in 1886.<br /><br />Kadri said "This American Life" had many times tried to crack the secret recipe but failed, New Straits Times reported Thursday. <br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
<p>Coca-Cola Malaysia's public affairs and communications director Kadri Taib said alcohol was not an ingredient and no fermentation took place during the manufacture of the drink.<br /><br />"The precise formulation of the drink is our company's most valuable trade secret.<br /><br />"The ingredients and manufacturing process are rigorously regulated by government and health authorities in more than 200 countries, including Malaysia, which have consistently <br />recognised the beverage as a non-alcoholic product," he said.<br /><br />The clarification about alcohol is essential for the beverage manufacturer in the Muslim majority nation since Islam forbids it.<br /><br />A weekly radio programme, This American Life, said it had discovered the formula from the Atlanta Journal Constitution. <br /><br />The article featured a photograph of a notebook with a handwritten list of ingredients allegedly needed to make the famous drink.<br /><br />Ingredients included lime juice, vanilla, caramel, various types of fruit-derived oils, nutmeg and alcohol. The programme claimed the notebook originally belonged to a friend of John Pemberton, the pharmacist who created Coca-Cola in 1886.<br /><br />Kadri said "This American Life" had many times tried to crack the secret recipe but failed, New Straits Times reported Thursday. <br /><br /><br /><br /></p>