Dispensary Corner 15 May 13
May 15, 2013
COMPOUNDERS may be interested in a special recipe which is up for sale on eBay, with a whopping $5m starting price. US man Cliff Kluge claims to have found a 70-year-old copy of the official recipe for Coca-Cola. He’s posted a copy of the letter online - but with details of the particular ingredients and quantities blocked out (below). Kluge says the document was in a box of papers he purchased from a deceased estate sale. Coca-Cola denies the authenticity of the recipe, saying “the real formula is safely tucked away in a vault at the World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta”.
A NEW United Nations report
published this week says eating
insects could be the answer to the
global obesity crisis.
The UN Food and Agriculture
Organisation study said that more
than 1,900 species of insects are
already eaten around the world -
mainly in Africa and Asia.
However “in the West we
have a cultural bias, and think
that because insects come from
developing countries, they cannot
be good,” the report says.
Spokesperson Arnold van Huis
from Wageningen University
in the Netherlands said insect
farming was an efficient way
of producing food which also
released fewer greenhouse gases.
It would also provide business
and export opportunities for
poor people, especially women,
often responsible for collecting
insects in rural communities in
developing nations.
And in a blind tasting test
carried out by the researchers,
90% of the subjects preferred the
taste of “meatballs” made with
half meat and half worms.
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