Pemberton's invention kickstarted the cola genre of soft drinks and companies such as Pepsi (introduced in 1893) and RC Cola ...

The Pepsi-Cola Collectors Club found documentation suggesting that Bradham began experimenting with ingredients to create differently flavored drinks in 1896, before Pepsi-Cola was officially born ...

In 1893, Caleb prepared the concoction by mixing ... In 1898, Caleb Bradham settled on the name ‘Pepsi-Cola’, after the digestive enzyme pepsin, and introduced the beverage in the market ...