5 interesting secrets about the secret ingredient Bashny.Net

Nothing special as okazalosSkazat that your product has the secret ingredients - and it's just as old as the world. In particular, five world-renowned companies, which we want to tell you, say exactly that. Well, it's time to reveal the secrets. Just try not too disappointed - nothing really mysterious about them there.

1. Special Sauce in the "Big Macs"



"Big Mac" from the "McDonalds" - two beef patties, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions and special sauce on a bun with sesame seeds. The most "mysterious" ingredient - a special sauce, which, however, has long ceased to be a secret.



In 2012, the chef of "McDonalds" Dan curls posted on YouTube a video in which explained in detail how to make a house "Big Mac", and about the sauce he, too, all told.

Suspicions many people were confirmed: the special sauce is a variation of "a thousand islands": mayonnaise, sweet cucumber paste, yellow mustard, white wine vinegar, garlic powder, onion powder and paprika.

By the way, in different countries, the composition of the sauce is still a little different. Sometimes sauce added preservatives and other components that is easier to find a pharmacy than the grocery store.

2. «Merchandise 7X» in the "Coca-Cola"



The closely guarded part of "Coca-Cola" is the secret ingredient called «Merchandise 7X». Recipe supposedly securely locked in a bank vault in Atlanta, and the company has long supported the myth that access to safe have only two senior officials - a lie.



In 2011, the year «This American Life» discovered the secret of the original formula, which once upon a time had copied each creator of "Coca-Cola" by John Pemberton. The document was not tucked away in a bank vault - the newspaper of the year 1979 «The Atlanta Journal and Constitution» published a photo of an old notebook, and a closer look at it you can see the secret formula.

You can see it here. Yes, an extract of coca leaves it includes.

3. 23 taste of «Dr Pepper»



There is an urban legend that «Dr Pepper» - is the only carbonated prune juice. But the site «Dr Pepper» declares that it is not so: the beverage is a unique blend of natural and artificial flavors. A prune juice it does not - according to the site. So what are the ingredients? Soft drink boasts 23 flavors, but its composition and specificity are considered "commercial secret».

Keep in mind that the "taste" do not necessarily mean "ingredients", so everything is subjective. A quick Google search will tell you a lot, especially about the apricots (though we are not sure that the best plum apricot juice).

4. The secret blend of 11 herbs and spices from Polkovnika



In 1940, Colonel Sanders (born Harland) hastily invented a secret blend of 11 herbs and spices "to his now popular network« Kentucky Fried Chicken »(« KFC »). Recipe locked in a vault in the company's headquarters. It is believed that the ingredients are produced and processed by the individual producers who are not aware of what others are doing, so that no one has calculated the final composition of the mixture.



The list of ingredients «KFC» modestly writes "Season to a secret recipe." However, in his book "Big Secrets" by William Poundstone described as the author of the party dragged chicken to a laboratory for testing. I quote from the book: "In a sample of the mixture was found in all four components: flour, salt, monosodium glutamate, and black pepper. Of 11 spices and herbs is not there ».

5. «Irn-Bru» from «Barr»



Scottish soft drink «Irn-Bru» was invented in 1901, and his "secret recipe" is kept under lock and key in a vault in Switzerland. According to the information on the website of the drink, the recipe is known only to three people - former chairman Robin Barr, his daughter and lawyer Julie Barr and another board member, whose identity was not disclosed.

«Irn-Bru» at the same time recognizes that one of the components of the drink is iron - hence the name. That's all.

via factroom.ru