{{Short description|Fruit syrup with a flavor that is both tart and sweet}} {{Other uses}} {{Use American English|date=October 2019}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} thumb|150px|A glass and bottle of grenadine
'''Grenadine''' ({{IPAc-en|'|g|r|E|n|@|d|i:|n}}) 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).<ref>{{cite web |title=Rose's Grenadine Product Facts |url=https://www.kdpproductfacts.com/product/a0e3h000003LK5YAAW/roses-grenadine-2-tbsp-us |website=Keurig - Dr. Pepper |access-date=17 May 2024}}</ref>
==Name== Grenadine syrup was originally prepared from pomegranate juice, sugar, and water,<ref>''Dictionnaire Universel de Cuisine Pratique : Encyclopédie Illustrée D'Hygiène Alimentaire'', Joseph Favre, Paris, 1905, pp. 1088.</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HZW-bdkudYkC&dq=Grenadines+granada+grenada&pg=PT185|title=Fodor's Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, the Grenadines & Grenada|date=December 28, 2010|publisher=Fodor's Travel|isbn=9780307928030|via=Google Books}}<br>- {{Cite web|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5845/|title=Grenadines Island Group (Grenada)|publisher=UNESCO World Heritage Centre}}</ref>
==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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Food and Drug Administration|date=1980-01-10|url=https://www.fda.gov/ICECI/ComplianceManuals/CompliancePolicyGuidanceManual/ucm074531.htm |title=Sec. 550.400 Grenadine|work=CPG 7110.11|access-date=2009-08-23}}{{dead link|date=May 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
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,<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Cadbury Schweppes|date=2000-09-18|url=http://www.cadburyschweppes.com/EN/MediaCentre/PressReleases/snapple_180900.htm| title=Media Release: Cadbury Schweppes to Acquire Snapple Beverage Group for an Enterprise Value of $1,450 Million|access-date=2008-07-05|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040612173104/http://www.cadburyschweppes.com/EN/MediaCentre/PressReleases/snapple_180900.htm|archive-date=2004-06-12}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wegmans.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10052&catalogId=10002&productId=352053|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101106212136/http://www.wegmans.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10052&catalogId=10002&productId=352053|title=Wegmans - Rose's Grenadine Ingredients|archive-date=November 6, 2010}}</ref>
==Use== [[File:The Official Queen Mary Cocktail.jpg|alt=The Queen Mary cocktail: beer, grenadine and Maraschino cherries|thumb|193x193px|The Queen Mary is a beer cocktail using grenadine and Maraschino cherries]] 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.
==See also== * List of syrups
==References== {{reflist}}
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Category:Drink mixers Category:Syrup