Notable Secret Ingredients
- Glutamate an amino acid and flavor enhancer often used in Chinese dishes.
- Merchandise 7X the "secret ingredient" or "secret formula" in Coca Cola. The ingredient has remained a secret since its invention in 1886 by John Pemberton. The description of the ingredient is kept in a vault at the Trust Co. Bank in Atlanta.
- KFC's "Colonel's secret recipe", created by Colonel Sanders in the 1930s. The recipe, which is advertised as containing "eleven herbs and spices", remains locked in a vault in Louisville, Kentucky.
- Special sauce, thought by some to be the variant of Thousand Island dressing used in the preparation of a McDonald's Big Mac hamburger. According to Sarah J. Gim of The Huffington Post, the special sauce is thicker, sweeter and has a "slightly different taste." The ingredients for the special sauce are available on McDonald's website.
- Frank's Red Hot, the secret ingredient in the first Buffalo wing sauce.
- The "theme ingredient" on the original series Iron Chef (the primary ingredient with which competitors prepare their dishes) is called the "secret ingredient" on the successor series Iron Chef America.
- Barr's Irn Bru secret recipe created by Robert Barr in 1901. Irn Bru is a slightly citric drink.
- Worcester sauce, a hot and spicy sauce used as a marinade and sauce for many dishes.
- Chartreuse liqueur, a green or yellow alcoholic drink made by the monks at a monastery in France. The secret of the 130 herbs used in its preparation are known to only two monks.
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