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
Grape syrup They were made by boiling down grape juice or must in large kettles until it had been reduced to two-thirds of the original volume, "carenum"; half the original volume, "defrutum"; or one-third, "sapa". Roman general Pliny the Elder states that grape syrup was also referred to as "siraion" (Greek: "σίραιον"). The main culinary use of defrutum was to help preserve and sweeten wine, but it was also added to fruit and meat dishes as a sweetening and souring agent and even given to food animals such as ducks and suckling pigs to improve the taste of their flesh. Defrutum was