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Encyclopedic overview
Two kinds of Iranian sharbat (center is lemon and right is cherry sharbat) along with Iranian tea (left) Sharbat (Persian: شربت, pronounced [ʃæɾˈbæt]; also transliterated or written as shorbot, šerbet, şerbet or sherbet) is a drink prepared from fruit or flower petals. It is a sweet cordial, and usually served chilled. It can be served in concentrated form and eaten with a spoon or diluted with water to create the drink.
Popular sharbats are made of one or more of the following: basil seeds,golāb (rose water), fresh rose petals, sandalwood, bael, hibiscus, lemon, orange, mango, pineapple, grape, falsa (Grewia asiatica) and chia seeds.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sherbet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.