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Mauby (in 
Haiti and the Dominican Republic are two of the largest Caribbean exporters of the bark and leaves. Often the drink is fermented using a portion of the previous batch, while sometimes it is consumed unfermented. Mauby is often bought as a pre-made syrup and then mixed with water (sparkling or still) to the consumer's taste, but many make it themselves at home or purchase it from neighbourhood producers or street sellers. Its taste is initially sweet, somewhat like
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, Saint Lucia, Jamaica
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, Barbados
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, Antigua and Barbuda and Anguilla
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), also known as ''maví (or mabí)'' in the Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...
and Puerto Rico
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, ''mabi'' in Haiti and Martinique
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, and ''maubi'' in the Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands ( es, Islas Vírgenes) are an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. They are geologically and biogeographically the easternmost part of the Greater Antilles, the northern islands belonging to the Puerto Rico Trench and St. Cro ...
and Dutch Caribbean islands of St. Eustatius, St. Maarten and Saba Saba may refer to:
Places
* Saba (island), an island of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea
* Şaba (Romanian for Shabo), a town of the Odesa Oblast, Ukraine
* Sabá, a municipality in the department of Colón, Honduras
* Saba (river), ...
), is a tree bark-based beverage grown, and widely consumed, in the Caribbean. It is made with sugar and the bark and/or fruit of certain species in the genus ''Colubrina
''Colubrina'' is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia, northern Australia, and the Indian Ocean islands. Common names include ...
'' including '' Colubrina elliptica'' (also called ''behuco indio'') and ''Colubrina arborescens
''Colubrina'' is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia, northern Australia, and the Indian Ocean islands. Common names include ...
'', a small tree native to the northern Caribbean and south Florida
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. Recipes usually include other ingredients as well, spices such as aniseed
Anise (; '), also called aniseed or rarely anix is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to Eurasia.
The flavor and aroma of its seeds have similarities with some other spices and herbs, such as star anise, fennel, licorice, and t ...
being very common. Mauby was traditionally a fermented beverage made in small batches, but is now predominantly a commercial non-fermented soft drink.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic are two of the largest Caribbean exporters of the bark and leaves. Often the drink is fermented using a portion of the previous batch, while sometimes it is consumed unfermented. Mauby is often bought as a pre-made syrup and then mixed with water (sparkling or still) to the consumer's taste, but many make it themselves at home or purchase it from neighbourhood producers or street sellers. Its taste is initially sweet, somewhat like root beer
Root beer is a sweet North American soft drink traditionally made using the root bark of the sassafras tree '' Sassafras albidum'' or the vine of '' Smilax ornata'' (known as sarsaparilla, also used to make a soft drink, sarsaparilla) as the ...
, but changes to a prolonged, but not astringent bitter aftertaste
Aftertaste is the taste intensity of a food or beverage that is perceived immediately after that food or beverage is removed from the mouth. The aftertastes of different foods and beverages can vary by intensity and over time, but the unifying f ...
. To many, it is an acquired taste, and has been known to cause an initial laxative reaction unexpected to many first-time drinkers.
Commercial soft drinks
: Grupo Taino LLC of the Dominican Republic markets two commercial versions of ''mabi'', both made with carbonated water. ''Seybano'' is lighter in color and made from tree bark extract and white andbrown sugar
Brown sugar is unrefined or partially refined soft sugar.
Brown Sugar may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Brown Sugar'' (1922 film), a 1922 British silent film directed by Fred Paul
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, while ''Cacheo'' is darker and made from both bark and fruit extract, with spices and brown sugar. Contrary to its name, ''Mabi Cacheo'' does not include sap from the Cacheo palms (''Pseudophoenix ekmanii
''Pseudophoenix ekmanii'' is a palm species endemic to the Barahona Peninsula and Isla Beata in the Dominican Republic on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Names
In Dominican Spanish, ''P. ekmanii'' is known as cacheo or cacheo de Oviedo. In ...
'' and '' P. vinifera'').
''Mauby Fizzz'' is a commercially produced and carbonated version of the drink produced in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated south of ...
by multinational PepsiCo from mauby bark. It is unfermented. A similar version is also produced in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines () is an island country in the Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea w ...
called Hairoun Mauby, produced by St. Vincent Brewery Limited, a company in the AmBev portfolio.
References
* * * {{cite web , url=http://slakethirst.com/2006/05/20/making-mauby/ , title=Making Mauby , work=Slakethirst , date=2006-05-20 Fermented drinks Soft drinks Caribbean drinks Barbadian cuisine Trinidad and Tobago cuisine Guyanese cuisine Antigua and Barbuda cuisine