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Cutting sugar in drinks with ‘the most illicit plant in the world’
The coca plant is best known for its psychoactive alkaloid, cocaine. In its de-cocainised form, the plant is also used to flavour the best-selling soda in the world, Coca-Cola. But now coca leaf extracts are finding a different purpose: one completely …