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So, a while ago I had read online that guava juice can help reflux (I Google these things b/c doctors are less than useless).

I looked at many grocery/health stores for months, and never found any.

But Saturday night, while out to eat in a Thai restaurant, I spotted it on the menu & ordered it. IT TASTED GOOD BUT BEST OF ALL IT DIDN'T BURN AT ALL, NOT EVEN A LITTLE, FOR THE WHOLE GLASS OMG.

So. I am now determined to buy myself some guava juice (I can literally have no other juice besides Naked's Protein Zone, which is hella expensive). And, actual juice: I can't have citric acid, which gets added to most juices -_-

The point of this post is to ask locals: Have you ever seen guava juice for sale ANYWHERE?!
It occurs to me that I haven't checked the Asian groceries for this specific item, but I thought I'd ask.

ETA: After a brief memory-jog, I think that papaya juice is the one I'd actually quested for a year ago, and I know I've seen guava juice. Either way: SUCCESS! *stockpiles*

I finally fucking made it to campus's Studio Ghibli series. Yesterday, they screened Castle in the Sky.

I had only ever seen the English dub, with Mark Hamill & James Van Der Beek & Anna Paquin, and the dub is not great.

IT IS SUCH A BETTER MOVIE SUBBED OMG.

I'm really glad I went, and very much looking forward to next week, when they're showing Only Yesterday, which has never been released in the US and is SO FREAKING GOOD.

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Goya has some guava drinks and Woodman's has a big selection of Goya.

Now that I see this, I think that the juice I had read about online was actually papaya juice, & that was what I'd been questing for. I know I've seen guava! So maybe some day I'll find papaya, but in the meantime, I will now take this advice and stockpile on guava, ^^

Other brands that have guava nectar are Kern's, Hawaiian Sun, and Honey Bee. If you have a Mexican or Asian grocery store in your area, it should be easy to find.

The grocery store in the same mall as the Urban League, Madison College South, & Goodman Library South, sells Mexican/Asian food. I believe that I have seen Guava Soda there, but they may have guava juice.

That's Yue Wah, and AFAIK they're the biggest ethnic grocery store in town, with one aisle per geographic/cultural area: Mexican, Middle Eastern, Indian, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Chinese, and . . I don't remember the others. Big frozen section & fridge sections too.

Willy St Coop carries RW Knudsen's Papaya Nectar Juice Blend but doesn't list ingredients. Worth looking into, maybe?

Also, I live a block from Midway Asian Foods. I'll try to check there in the next couple of days (but probably not before Friday).

It would seem that Knudsen and Lakewood brands of papaya juice contain only juice, no added citric acid.

(I wonder if this means you could eat green papaya salad at a Thai restaurant? Green papaya, shredded with a grater, in a pile with other stuff, like noodles only green and of fruit. Probably uses jalapenos and garlic and onions or something, alas.)

A fruit drink you can have! So exciting!

Also: Fuck Yeah Only Yesterday!