Cocaine (drink) purported "throat-burning" sensation of Original), and one being "Free", which contains no sugar. The ingredients are carbonated water, dextrose, citric acid, taurine, caffeine, natural flavors, sodium citrate, -ribose, salt, sodium benzoate, inositol, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), sucralose, -carnitine, potassium sorbate, guarana seed extract, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B), cyanocobalamin (vitamin B), and Red 40. Cocaine (drink) Cocaine is a highly caffeinated energy drink distributed by Redux Beverages. It contains more caffeine than rival energy drinks Red Bull and Rockstar, symbolized by three and a half steer heads on the label. Aside from caffeine, the label claims 750 milligrams of taurine, another
Vitamin C had proven this, but published the result without giving Szent-Györgyi credit for it. This led to a bitter dispute over priority. In 1933, Walter Norman Haworth chemically identified the vitamin as -hexuronic acid, proving this by synthesis in 1933. Haworth and Szent-Györgyi proposed that L-hexuronic acid be named a-scorbic acid, and chemically -ascorbic acid, in honor of its activity against scurvy. The term's etymology is from Latin, "a-" meaning away, or off from, while -scorbic is from Medieval Latin "scorbuticus" (pertaining to scurvy), cognate with Old Norse "skyrbjugr", French "scorbut", Dutch "scheurbuik" and Low German "scharbock". Partly for this discovery,