Flavor Adventure

Tropical flavors marry in Beverage Artistry®’s Passion Colada blend.  You’ll be whisked away to white sand beaches, warm sunny days and cool tropical breezes when you taste the harmony of passion fruit, coconut and pineapple. Each flavor on its own is unique, but together will catapult you to your dream island adventure.

Passion Fruit – Known as lilikoi in Hawaii and maracuyá in South America, passion fruit is strong, tart and tropical.  There are two types of passion fruit – yellow or dark purple at maturity. Round to oval in shape, passion fruit has a soft to firm, juicy interior filled with numerous seeds.  The fruit can be grown to eat or for its juice, which is often added to other fruit juices to enhance aroma.  Although it is mouth puckering to taste, once blended with other ingredients, it will not overpower a recipe and will remain true to the flavor of fresh fruit. 

Coconut – The coconut is not actually a nut but a seed.  In fact, it is the single largest known seed.  Coconut comes from the Spanish and Portuguese word coco, which means “monkey face”.  The light, fibrous husk allowed the coconut to easily drift on oceans to other areas to propagate. The white and fleshy meat of the coconut contains less sugar and more protein than popular fruits such as bananas, apples, and oranges, and it is relatively high in minerals such as iron, phosphorous and zinc. 

Pineapple – The pineapple is not a single fruit, but the fruits of a hundred or more separate flowers that grow on a plant spike.  As they grow, they swell with juice and pulp, expanding to become the “fruit”. Every commercial pineapple plant can produce 2 to 3 pineapples over its life.  The first fruit is the largest.  The next crop of fruit is smaller, sweeter and more aromatic.  Pineapple is eaten fresh or canned and is available as a juice or in juice combinations.  It is used in desserts, beverages, salads, as a complement to meat dishes and in fruit cocktail.