Everyone knows Coca-Cola, but they really don't!

This series will take us from the drink in your hand to a world in crisis. Based on his award-winning book, Citizen Coke, protagonist Dr. Bart Elmore will take us on a wild journey deep into the Andean mountains and across the Pacific Ocean to the site of clandestine former coca farms in Hawaii and beyond. Using declassified documents, he will reveal secret government contracts, cocaine-processing plants in New Jersey, caffeine synthesis from fossil fuels in heavily guarded Chinese factories, and mountains of radioactive waste in Idaho.

These are just some of the hidden histories that await in this story that examines the way the Real Thing radically reshaped the world in which we live.Coca-Cola Confidential is the vérité story of one man’s fact-finding odyssey - tracking the actions of a company whose name is the second most known word in the world after the phrase “Okay”. With 1.9 billion of its products sold every day - Coca-Cola is ubiquitous in our lives, yet few know the truth behind its global empire.

Coca-Cola Confidential

some Coca-Cola stats;

-Coca-Cola uses 80 billion gallons of water a year to mix with its syrup, BUT, in total Coca-Cola uses an estimated 8 trillion gallons of water a year to grow its sugar cane, corn (corn syrup), and other ingredients it needs to make its products around the world. This is enough water to provide for a fourth of the world’s population.

- In one year alone, Coke funneled over 2.1 billion pounds of sugar into Americans' bodies just through sales of regular, full-calorie Coca-Cola. This was only a fraction of Coke's total business. Only 20 percent of the company's sales were in the United States.

-A bottle of Dasani water (sold by Coca-Cola) costs 1,935 times more than the tap water Coke gets from the American public. Yet, it is the same water.

-Coca-Cola has boasted that it is the largest consumer of processed caffeine on the planet. Today, most of the caffeine for soft drinks is synthetic and made from the same chemicals that come from natural gas. And much of this caffeine comes from China.

-Every year Coca-Cola imports over 3 million pounds of caffeine into the USA. This is the caffeine equivalent of approximately 14 billion cups of coffee (or almost two cups of coffee for every person on the planet) a year. And sales within the United States at this time represent just 20 percent of the company's total market distribution.

-Coca-Coca produces over 100 billion disposable plastic bottles every year.

-Coca-Cola is the world’s largest producer of plastic waste.

"In a business-as-usual scenario by 2050, the oceans will have more plastics than fish by weight"

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

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