Grenadine

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Fruit syrup with a flavor that is both tart and sweet

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::summary Fruit syrup with a flavor that is both tart and sweet ::

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Grenadine () is a nonalcoholic bar syrup commonly used as a cocktail ingredient, distinguished by its sweetness, mild flavor, and red color. Popular in mixed drinks, grenadine syrup was traditionally made from pomegranate, but today is most prevalently made from commercially produced natural or artificial flavors, as well as substitute fruits (such as blackcurrant, elderberry, raspberry, gooseberry and their juices).

Name

Grenadine syrup was originally prepared from pomegranate juice, sugar, and water, with its name deriving from the French word grenade, for pomegranate (from the Latin grānātum, "seeded").

It is not related to the Grenadines archipelago, which takes its name from Grenada, itself from Granada, Spain.

Modern and commercial variants

As grenadine is subject to minimal regulation, its basic flavor profile can vary widely from the original pomegranate to combinations of unspecified natural and artificial flavors, to the use of other fruits, such as blackcurrant, elderberry, raspberry, and gooseberry.

To reduce production costs, manufacturers have widely replaced fruit bases with artificial ingredients. The "Rose's" brand (owned by Mott's) is by far the most common grenadine sold in the United States, and is formulated from (in order of concentration) high fructose corn syrup, water, citric acid, sodium citrate, sodium benzoate, FD&C Red #40, natural and artificial flavors, and FD&C Blue #1.

Use

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Grenadine is commonly used to mix both modern and classic cocktails, including:

El Presidente – rum, orange curaçao, vermouth, and grenadine
Mary Pickford – white rum, pineapple juice and grenadine
Queen Mary – beer, grenadine and maraschino cherries, drizzled with cherry syrup
Singapore sling – a gin-based sling cocktail
Tequila sunrise – tequila, orange juice and grenadine
Ward 8 – whiskey, lemon juice, orange juice and grenadine
Zombie – a rum-based Tiki cocktail
Terremoto – a traditional chilean cocktail made with pipeño wine, pineapple ice cream and grenadine

Grenadine is also a popular ingredient in such non-alcoholic drinks as the Shirley Temple, Roy Rogers and the Diabolo.

References

"Rose's Grenadine Product Facts".
''Dictionnaire Universel de Cuisine Pratique : Encyclopédie Illustrée D'Hygiène Alimentaire'', [[Joseph Favre]], Paris, 1905, pp. 1088.
(December 28, 2010). "Fodor's Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, the Grenadines & Grenada". Fodor's Travel.
(1980-01-10). "Sec. 550.400 Grenadine". CPG 7110.11.
(2000-09-18). "Media Release: Cadbury Schweppes to Acquire Snapple Beverage Group for an Enterprise Value of $1,450 Million". Cadbury Schweppes.
"Wegmans - Rose's Grenadine Ingredients".

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