Coca Cola is said to have all sorts of properties, including many myths (no, Cola doesn't give you black feet).

One myth, for example, is that Coca Cola dissolves meat and is therefore bad for your stomach.

The phosphoric acid in the cola is blamed for this. Admittedly, the exact proportionate composition of Coca Cola is not publicly known, but we do know that the soda contains water, sugar and phosphoric acid.

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But does this phosphoric acid destroy our stomachs? What happens if you soak raw meat in Coca Cola overnight? Is it gone then?

The fact check: Coca Cola

The answer is quite simple: we are dealing with an everyday myth that is many years old.

No, the soda doesn't break down meat. There are now enough experiments that have disproved this. In the ZEIT column “Is it true?” in 1997, author Christoph Drösser clearly refuted the idea that Coca Cola dissolves meat.

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In an experiment it became clear that after 24 hours in cola, a piece of beef fillet turned light brown, became very crumbly and smelled bad, but it did not decompose.

In the end, the phosphoric acid causes the meat to swell. By the way, the phosphoric acid in cola does not harm the stomach. This can be done if you consider that the hydrochloric acid present in the stomach is much stronger.

And what does this have to do with Nazis?

Individual sources rumor that this bogeyman about the soda and dissolving meat dates back to the Nazi era in Germany and was brought into the world by a German competitor.

At least that’s how Mark Pendergrast describes it in his book “For God, Fatherland and Coca-Cola”.

This might also be of interest:

Did Coca sponsor the Nazi Olympic Games in 1936 ?

Coca-Cola recently distanced itself from the right because of a fake poster. But was the company once so close to the Nazis that they even sponsored the Olympic Games?

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