Seems like Coca-Cola is coming full circle some 120 years after its invention by druggist John Stith Pemberton. Well, sort of.
Yesterday the soft-drink giant unveiled the Coca-Cola Research Center for Chinese Medicine in Beijing.
Coca-Cola has set up a lab to experiment with new Chinese herbal flavors for Coke and other beverage products. It's the first international company to open such a facility at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. Coca-Cola plans to have its researchers develop beverages using Chinese herbal ingredients and formulas.
A Coca-Cola spokesperson had this to say "This collaboration will ultimately help us bring the insights and benefits of traditional Chinese medicine to consumers all over the world." And it should probably give them a bit more cred than Vitamin Water. Though to be frank, I'm not quite sure I'm ready for Diet Coke with ginseng.








Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
10-22-2007 @ 8:22PM
Nynx said...
I m skeptical on the ability for coca-cola to produce a product that is healthy and that does not have ingredients to hook consumers such high fructose corn syrup but coke is coke its extremely popular
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10-22-2007 @ 9:57PM
MFEMFEMF said...
shut up america just shut up
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10-22-2007 @ 10:00PM
Christine said...
Ni Hao!
We could all learn alot from Chinese medicine. It will be interesting to see what they come up with.
Zai Jian
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10-22-2007 @ 10:25PM
Bruce Chestnut said...
When Bill Clinton was president he should of been tried for treason and not impeached for sexual improprieties, when he was allowing chinese diplomats to steal stategic miliary secets the media was diverting our attention to Monica Levinski. One of the many coverups by the Clintons. Whle we are buying all these chinese imports, the chinese are taking our dollars to build a vast military complex to use against us in a future war. One senator was shut up and sent to prison who tried to warn us that the chinese are our enemies, he said "what does it take a chinese rocket up your ass before you realize they are our enemies", a senator from Ohio, senator Trafficant.
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10-22-2007 @ 10:29PM
Bill Horner said...
Bruce Chesnut is right. If you like crummy Chinese products, wait'll the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the one world government folks at the UN force you into the North American Union.
Folks there's a "shadow governmment" led by the Rockefellers that is moving us towards a one world government devoid of Christianity.
IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP AMERICA...........
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10-22-2007 @ 10:30PM
AL said...
LET US NOT FORGET HISTORY. CHINA WAS A BIG SOURCE OF GETTING THE USA INTO THE PACIFIC WAR. WE TOLD JAPAN TO GET OUT OF CHINS, THEY DID IN 1945. THERE ARE S0O MANY MIXED GOVERNMENTS IN CHINA NO ONE CAN COUNT THEM. HOW CAN THE US DO BUSINESS, ON THER OTHER HAND, WHO DOES REALLY KNOW WHO ARE MAKING THE DEALS. POLITICS ENTER THE BIG ARENA. IF I CAN RECALL MY HISTORY EVER SINCE DAY 1, BC, THERE HAVE ONLY BEEN ABOUT 500 YEARS OF PEACE.
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10-22-2007 @ 10:35PM
Lucy Marchiny said...
Every time we buy anything made in another country, We are cutting own throat.
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10-22-2007 @ 10:42PM
Nancy said...
OH NO, not another China deal. Please, knock off all ties with that country. Next, they're going to be poisoning us with Coke products. First, our pets, then our children, now the adults. I am so sick of our corporations patronizing that country because of cheap slave labor, U.S. citizens are paying a horrific price everyday. Coke should be banned from every shelf in America along with every other Corp. that continues to use China to manufacture goods that come to this country. The people over there have proven they don't give a damm about the products that are shipped out of their country. They probably can't read English either, like, DO NOT USE LEAD PAINT ! Corporations, you get what you pay for, all this will really bite you in the rear, so get ready.
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10-22-2007 @ 10:59PM
mark said...
HELLO AMERICA .. . . HOW LONG HAS EASTER MRDICINE BEEN AROUND . . . . . I'VE RECENTLY RECEIVED 3 ACUPUNCTURE TREATEMENTS FOR LOWER BACK PAIN ALONG WITH AN RX FOR CHINESE HERBS (CHASE WIND) & FOR THE 1ST TIME IN MANY MONTHS HAVE FELT SOME RELIEF . . . . GIVE COKE A CHANCE . . . . OPEN YOUR MIND TO SOMETHING THAT MAY BE BENEFICIAL TO "YOU" . . . . . . .
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10-22-2007 @ 11:00PM
Brian said...
From a person with an International Business degree I believe that trading with countries no matter who they are benefits the world as a whole. It allows the world to be more efficient by letting people specialize in what they do. The only problem is the worlds pessimism about the ethics of other governments. International business is responsible for where the human race is at today and if you don't appreciate what trading with other countries have done for America and the rest of the world then go back to living in the stone age. Money makes the world go round, even the early Protestant Church changed their beliefs just to promote business. Go to school America
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10-22-2007 @ 11:01PM
BuyingUSIsHardToDo said...
Coca-Cola is an American-owned worldwide conglomerate just trying to expand its business. All of the poster bitching about China probably have tons of products made in foreign countries sold by highly profitable American retailers: Gap, Old Navy, Abercrombie & Fitch, Target, Wal-Mart,Home Depot,etc. Who wants to pay $40.00 for an American made T-shirt, when you can just spend $5.99 for one at Target? There is demand for cheap products: food, clothing, and furniture, coupled with a drive to pay high dividends to stockholders, so Pacific Rim here we come! Give away our jobs, please - we, the consumers, are the reason for become a debtor nation. China gives the U.S. loans. Can you believe that? Check your labels next time you want to gripe and then blame your own self. Anybody drive a Honda or a Kia out there? You get the point.
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10-22-2007 @ 11:24PM
Bud said...
With the way the Chinese have treated Americans by tainting the dog food to kill our pets and painted our childrens toys in lead paint trying to harm our children, now you are telling us that you are going to let them taint our coca colas. What is up with you when you take jobs away from the American public, the Euro is worth more than the dollar and you are paying the Chinese to use their medicine, which you never should do because apparently they are not trustworth. Would like to hear back from you as My family have owned shares of stock in your company for over 50 years.
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10-22-2007 @ 11:42PM
steve said...
For those that do not know, do a search on the "North American Union" it is being called the North American Partnership now. And you'll be informed as to where the USA is heading.
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10-22-2007 @ 11:44PM
waterhornet said...
It's nice that Coca-Cola is doing something very different from other beverage companies. But besides that point...which I really don't care about anyway...whatever happened to using correct punction and English in America? I think THAT's more important here than anything. The grammar and mutilation of the English langue is appaling in these comments! I think we need to start worrying about our education system a little bit more and focusing less on what these giant corporations are doing...
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10-23-2007 @ 1:01AM
Becky said...
As long as there is 13 teaspoons of sugar/corn syrup in each can of soda, that will negate any possitive affects of any herbal influence.
Come on people, wise up, you're being poisoned.
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10-23-2007 @ 1:10AM
BILL said...
IT'S GOOD TO SEE THAT COKE SKIPPED AMERICA, AND PUT THIS IN CHINA WHERE IT PAYS PENNIES FOR LABOR. INSTEAD OF MAKING MORE JOBS FOR THE COUNTRY THAT SUPPORTS COKE AND MADE IT NUMBER ONE. IN A TIME WHEN
OUR ECONOMY IS MAKING ANOTHER COST ADJUSTMENT AND MANY NEED WORK. MAYBE PEPSI REALLY IS FOR A NEW GENERATION!
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10-23-2007 @ 1:34AM
Diana B. said...
Welcome to the United States of CHINA!
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10-23-2007 @ 1:38AM
Diana B. said...
Joke(?):
Pres. Bush was visiting a computer installation and asked the technician, "Can the computer tell what the US will be like in 50 years?"
The technician pushed a few buttons and a printout came out. Then the tech gave to it Bush, who looked at it and said, "I can't read it."
The tech asked, "Why not?"
Bush replied, "Because it's in Chinese."
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10-23-2007 @ 1:43AM
Jane said...
What an absolute joke. I'm sure Coca-Cola really cares about traditional herbal medicine that dates back thousands of years. Let's cut the crap: they are trying to figure out creative ways to market to the Chinese, after all they do have more than 4 times the population of America. They'll have to create different ads for America, probably telling us how the drinks have "all-natural" healing powers, like Vitamin water (yeah right). And is it just a coincidence that this is happening less than one year from the Beijing Olympics, where Coca-Cola is contributing massive amounts of money to be the exclusive drink sold at the Olympics? I think not. I'm sure America can learn a lot from Chinese (and other Eastern) medicine, but don't expect Coca-Cola to be the ones to teach us. Any intelligent person doesn't equate Coke with health.
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10-23-2007 @ 2:08AM
deanna said...
One of the key ingredients probably will be PCP.
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