Grenadine blackcurrant juice and other fruit juices with the blackcurrant flavor dominating. To reduce production costs, manufacturers have widely replaced fruit bases with artificial ingredients. The Mott's brand "Rose's" is by far the most common brand of 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 flavours and FD&C Blue #1. In Australia Grenadine has been replaced with Raspberry cordial in most bars, clubs and taverns. In Europe, Bols still manufactures grenadine with pomegranate. Grenadine is commonly used to
Aguardiente It is then taken straight as shots, mulled with cinnamon ("canela" in Spanish) and fruit juices to make the hot cocktail "canelazo", or mixed with the juice of agave masts and Grenadine syrup for the hot cocktail "draquita". Locally or artisanally made aguardiente is commonly called "punta", "puro" or "trago", and alcohol content can vary widely, from "mild" "puntas" of about 10% to "strong" of about 40% or higher. The traditional distillation process produces aguardiente as strong as 60 g/L. Every Ecuadorian province has a slightly different flavour to the aguardiente produced there, and equally each province has a different