According to the words of the press secretary of Ministry of Health Thuringia Thomas, Red Bull doesn't affect health, but contains more tham allowed cocain, so the drink after the discovery of traces of cocaine in it is not considered as a food product, but as a drug, wrote Deutsche Welle. Elements of cocaine in the Red Bull Cola found the Institute for Health and Labor of North Rhine-Westphalia, conducted an examination of nutritional drink. In their opinion, one of the reasons for the emergence of cocaine in the drink - the residual content of drug in the extract of coca plants, whose leaves are used as the aromatic component in the manufacture of Coke.