Juice

🇵🇪Loreto, Peru

Aguajina

A Loreto fruit drink made from aguaje pulp, water and sugar.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Amar el Din

قمر الدين

A thick apricot drink made from dried apricot paste dissolved in water, served cold during Ramadan across Lebanon and the Levant.

🇸🇩Sudan

Aradeb

Tamarind pulp soaked and strained into a dark, sour drink served very cold, often at iftar.

🇪🇬Egypt

Aseer Asab (Sugarcane Juice)

عصير قصب

A Egyptian fresh sugarcane juice pressed at street stalls, a summer and refreshing classic

🇬🇲The Gambia

Baobab Juice

Wonjo baobab juice

A tart Gambian drink made by soaking baobab pulp in water and sweetening it, sometimes with milk.

🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau

Baobab Juice

Sumo di Cabaceira

A tart, creamy drink made from soaked baobab pulp in Guinea-Bissau.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Baobab Juice

Jus de baobab

A tart, creamy drink made by soaking baobab fruit pulp in water and sweetening it.

🇹🇬Togo

Baobab Juice

Alangban

A creamy, tangy Togolese drink made by blending baobab fruit pulp with water and sugar; thick, pale, and very high in vitamin C, sold fresh on streets and in markets.

🇨🇺Cuba

Batido de trigo

A Cuban wheat-berry drink blended with milk, sugar, vanilla, and ice until thick and creamy, sold at juice stands.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Bouye

Buy

Baobab fruit pulp soaked, strained and blended with milk and sugar into a thick, tart white drink.

🇧🇷Piaui, Brazil

Cajuína

Crystal-clear cashew juice clarified to strip its tannin, then baked in sealed bottles until the sugars caramelize to amber — Piauí's IPHAN-registered heritage drink.

🇵🇭Philippines

Calamansi Juice

A refreshing juice from Philippine limes (calamansi), sweetened and served cold, the national citrus drink.

🇧🇷Brazil

Caldo de Cana

Fresh sugarcane juice pressed on the spot and served over ice, Brazil's most common street beverage. Also called garapa, it is sweet, grassy and often finished with a squeeze of lime.

🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau

Cashew Juice

Sumo de Caju

Fresh cashew fruit pressed into a fragrant Guinea-Bissau juice, served chilled in the cashew season.

🇵🇰Chitral, Pakistan

Chamborogh

چمبوروغ

Chitrali drink of dried apricots soaked and pressed into a thick, tart juice, drunk cold through the summer.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Citronnade

سيترونادة

Whole lemons blended with sugar, water and ice, skin and all, into a thick cloudy drink served in a tall glass.

🇬🇫French Guiana

Comou Juice

Lait de comou

A creamy beverage from comou palm fruit pulp; used for refreshing drinks or sorbets; nutritious and rich; an Amazonian palm fruit drink of French Guiana.

🇲🇪Montenegro

Cornelian Cherry Juice

Sok od drenjina

Wild cornelian cherries cooked with sugar and bottled into a sharp red cordial, diluted with water and drunk cold.

🇸🇳Senegal

Dakhar

Daxar

Tamarind pulp soaked and strained into a brown, sour drink sweetened with sugar and served over ice.

🇾🇪Yemen

Diba'a

Squash or pumpkin cooked, strained and sweetened into a thick amber nectar drunk cold.

🇸🇳Senegal

Ditakh

Ditax

Green fruit of the ditakh tree soaked and pressed into a sharply sour, deep green juice, then sweetened.

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Elderflower Cordial

Сок од зове

Elderflower heads steeped with sugar, lemon and citric acid to a syrup, diluted with still or sparkling water.

🇪🇷Asmara, Eritrea

Eritrean Spris

Spris

Eritrean mixed fruit juice drink; layers of avocado, mango, papaya, and other tropical juices in a single glass; sometimes topped with a splash of sparkling water; a popular cafe drink in Asmara; refreshing in the highland heat.

🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire

Ginger Juice

Gnamakoudji

Pounded ginger squeezed through cloth and sweetened, sometimes with pineapple and vanilla, sold frozen in plastic sachets.

🇨🇲Cameroon

Ginger Juice

Jus de gingembre

Raw ginger blitzed with water, lemon and sugar and strained into a fierce, throat-burning cold drink.

🇫🇯Fiji

Green coconut

Bu

A young drinking coconut opened with a machete at the roadside and drunk straight from the shell, then split so the soft flesh can be scooped.

🇨🇴Colombia

Guarapo

A sugarcane drink served fresh or lightly fermented across tropical Latin America, with Colombia and Costa Rica among its established forms.

🇻🇪Venezuela

Guarapo

Cane juice pressed from fresh stalks or made by dissolving papelón, drunk cold and sometimes left to ferment slightly.

🇸🇩Sudan

Guddaim

A Sudanese drink made from the tart guddaim fruit and served chilled.

🇬🇳Guinea

Guinean Fresh Juice

Jus de fruit

Fresh fruit juices from local fruits (mango, pineapple, papaya, orange, banana); often sold in plastic bags at street stalls; a refreshing Guinean tradition.

🇵🇼Outer Islands (Peleliu / Angaur / Sonsorol / Hatohobei), Palau

Hasi

Sweet fresh sap tapped from coconut trees; a refreshing drink from the outer islands of Sonsorol and Hatohobei; can be drunk fresh or fermented into hasi mwane (coconut sap wine); a traditional outer island beverage.

🇨🇳China

Hawthorn Drink

山楂汁

Pressed hawthorn juice, sharply sour and lightly sweetened, drunk cold and eaten also as pressed fruit rolls.

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hošaf

Dried fruit — plums, apricots, figs — stewed in water with sugar and drunk cold as the standard sweet drink at iftar.

🇮🇷Iran

Iranian Pomegranate Juice

آب انار

Pomegranates pressed whole at street juice bars in autumn and served in a glass with the seeds strained out.

🇨🇴Colombia

Jugo de Borojó

A Pacific-coast juice of borojó pulp, milk, and sugar, blended until creamy. A nutritious, energizing drink from the Chocó, served cold.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Jugo de Chinola

Dominican passion fruit juice of fresh chinola pulp, water, and sugar, served with ice. A tangy, aromatic tropical juice drunk with meals nationwide.