Colour: Bright vermillion. Taste: Intense guava nose with floral notes; pure fresh cut guava taste. This flavour has an exotic, strong & sweet fragrance. It is the perfect option for a variety of lemonades, & you can also finish off your evening with a guava martini... shaken, not stirred! A popular Asian flavour, which will create exotic drink recipes, guava fruit originate from Mexico, Central America & northern South America. Today they are produced in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, subtropical regions of North America, New Zealand & Australia. Round or oval with a bitter green or yellow skin, guava pulp is hard, slightly granular, pink, yellow or salmon pink & very fragrant. Guava can be sweet or sour with a flavour varying somewhere between pear & strawberry, which works well in savoury or sweet dishes. In Hawaii, chunks of guava are dipped in soy sauce & vinegar, in the Philippines it is popular in stew, & in East Asia it is eaten with sweet & sour dried plum powder. In Mexico, Guava is an ingredient in 'agua fresco', a light non-alcoholic drink made with cereals, fruit, seeds or flowers mixed with water & sugar. Guava goes very well with lime, cream or custard & is delicious as ice cream or sorbet. For a taste of the tropics add Monin Guava syrups exotic fruit flavour to create delicate, thirst-quenching cocktails, sodas & lemonades. For best results keep refrigerated & use within 4 weeks.