Ingredients from the coca leaf are used, but there is no cocaine in it and it is all tightly overseen by regulatory authorities.
Illinois-based Stepan Company is the importer and processor of the coca used in Coke. Besides producing the coca flavoring agent for Coca-Cola, Stepan extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it sells to Mallinckrodt Inc., a St. Louis pharmaceutical manufacturer that is the only company in the United States licensed to purify the product for medicinal use.