It is not a big problem to detect the main components
It is completely impossible to detect the complete formula proportion.
From a professional point of view, no matter which testing instrument analyzes chemical components, it is compared with the data in the database.
For the main phase, it must be a common substance, and at the same time, the signal is strong enough, and various means can definitely match.
For a few components
No equipment can measure both organic and inorganic, both crystalline and amorphous, both light and heavy elements, both trace and trace, and the amount of blind sample detection is huge.
Second, for blind samples, when the approximate information is completely unknown, matching the database is a common search for a needle in a haystack. No matter how powerful the database matching is, it needs human judgment when the information is not enough. For employees in the same industry, reverse engineering can still be tried. After all, most additives may be just a few.
Third, in order to prevent reverse engineering, most chemical and chemical companies will deliberately add interferents to the formula to confuse the line of sight, such as adding chirality to the achiral formula, adding dextrorotation to the levorotatory formula, and adding placebos with similar structures. In short, you can detect a large number of specious useless signals with instruments to interfere with your detection.
In the melamine incident, I remember that it took Union Medical College less than half a year to detect the baby's stones as melamine. It's not that they are not good at it. It's far more difficult for the blind sample detection project of completely unknown things to come out after a few seconds of scanning with a spectrometer.
It's not worth it. People sell brands, not tastes.
From a chemical point of view, it is almost impossible to crack it perfectly, but it is still possible to get a very close formula.
In fact, it's not a problem that small molecular substances are detected by instruments, including various elements, moisture and oligosaccharides ... But don't forget some scary figures in organic chemistry: there are more than 10 million known organic substances, and the same organic substance can also have almost unlimited homologues (similar molecular composition, but different molecular weights). These astronomical figures are too big for a quantum computer to handle.
However, the substances that can be used in cola drinks are still limited, and the spectrum analysis data combined with certain experience can greatly narrow the scope, and the possibility of cracking the formula of Coca-Cola still exists. However, it is inevitable to invest a lot of manpower and material resources. Some people are really willing to invest so much, and they have to consider commercialization later. However, the formula and trademark of Coca-Cola have been protected by law and have been precipitated and solidified through hundreds of years of advertisements and manufacturers. Even if you have a formula and use other trademarks, you have to invest in the same scale of manufacturing plants and advertising fees, and you also face the competition from the existing Coca-Cola, so you can't survive at all.
In fact, if we want to crack the formula of Coca-Cola, we can send several teams of people to apply for the positions of Coca-Cola's factory respectively, and then gather relevant information, which will get twice the result with half the effort.
I'm a food expert, and I'm a food expert in LAB.
From a chemical point of view, it is not difficult to crack the recipes of Coca-Cola and KFC, but the question is what can you do with the "imitation version" after cracking?
Obviously, you have not considered the advertising expenses of KFC flowers, Coca-Cola and other flowers, the cost of establishing the whole production system and the inherent influence of their brands.
In a small city, it is still possible to compete with KFC, Coca-Cola and other similar stores by lowering prices, so forget about the big place.
There is no difficulty in cracking the recipes of Coca-Cola and KFC, the key is whether it is necessary!
For our "innovative" country, what can't be "innovative"? From satellites to clothes, shoes and hats, it's not difficult at all, let alone cracking the recipes of Coca-Cola and KFC.
In fact, there are already many stores in a way similar to KFC, with similar style and taste, but the price is half that of the so-called KFC. If this continues, the market like KFC will be submerged by our national brand sooner or later. This is not the case. KFC has become an ordinary fast food restaurant in first-tier and second-tier cities, and only three or four counties and counties feel slightly superior.
There is not much market for copying them. Nowadays, China's domestic market is changing with each passing day, and new brands, new varieties and new tastes are emerging one after another. In this fast-paced society, more and more presentation methods have made us feel refreshed, so there is really no need to struggle about how to crack their so-called secret recipes.
In addition, our eating habits have already changed. Coca-Cola represents a certain eating age, and KFC also witnessed the moment of the reform and opening up. Now, carbonated drinks and fried chicken are nothing new.
Take the milk tea culture in our street now, we know that no eating habit is eternal.
So, personally, I don't think it is necessary to crack the so-called secret recipe now. Besides, this so-called secret recipe is not worth mentioning to us!
Impossible, judging from the present situation, if we can crack it, the status of Coca-Cola and KFC would have been lost. I am engaged in environmental studies, and I have used the most advanced water quality testing instruments such as liquid chromatography, gas chromatography and mass spectrometry in water quality testing. But what these instruments can detect is only an approximate value, which cannot be completely accurate to a certain substance.
Liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry can be used to detect the molecular formula of substances contained in water, but the specific substances cannot be distinguished. For example, the chemical formula of C6H 12O6 can be detected from water, but this chemical formula represents glucose and fructose, and it is not certain what kind of substances it is, so it is necessary to analyze the standard substances of glucose and fructose, and determine what kind of sugar it is according to the data of liquid mass spectrometry.
This is just a simple determination of sugar, which involves complicated analysis. Moreover, the substances contained in cola have more complicated chemical formulas, and these chemical formulas have more isomers (that is, the chemical formulas are the same but the mechanisms are different). If we want to determine that it must be this substance, we must compare it with the standard substances of this substance to determine it. There may be thousands of deformations of a complex chemical formula, so from a chemical point of view, the probability may be too small.
From the chemical point of view, the possibility has been extremely low, and from the perspective of Coca-Cola and KFC, they are also afraid that others will crack his secret recipe, so will they add some substances that do not affect the taste and have no harmful effects to disturb the audio-visual? It is indeed possible, so it is impossible to crack the secret recipe according to today's technology.
Based on the above reasons, it is impossible to crack the secret recipe, otherwise how can they occupy a monopoly position for so many years!
I'm glad to answer this question: is it possible to crack the formula of Coca-Cola and KFC from a chemical point of view? My answer is this. In fact, these recipes are not very confidential. They may have been very confidential decades ago, but now even if you know the recipes, you can't make them into the same brand as him, because people have formed a very perfect process and system, and the system itself is impossible for you to crack, or it is very difficult to crack and copy.
First, the formula of Coca-Cola and KFC is not a secret. Second, even if you know the formula of others, it is impossible to summarize the brand effect of others. So I want to conclude here. Don't always think about it. Cracking other people's formulas can also surpass others. Think more about their business methods and business philosophy. This is the key. I say you look at our domestic Laoshan Coke, and its taste is very good, but
The brand value of Coca-Cola is too high, there are still tens of billions! ! Although a can of coke is only 2.5 yuan, it is drunk all over the world. It can be said that where there is a supermarket, there is Coca Cola! !
Even if you make the same taste as Coca-Cola or Pepsi, you won't have a bright future! Because their enterprise has made such a large scale, the profit has been minimized, and you, a new one, have no profit support at all!