The following is the final installment in a four-part series profiling the city's ethnic food markets.

In addition gaining a peek into another culture, visiting an ethnic market will often remind you just how uncreative we can be with certain ingredients. Take the humble, yet delicious cashew. I had never imagined you could have cashew juice until I visited the Brazilian Store, 333 Valley St.:

And while many of the products you see at ethnic food markets will be new to you, you will occaisionally run across a real blast from the past. Indeed, in the Brazilian Store I also saw a product I hadn't seen in at least 10 years:

Tang? Where did this come from? Apparently Tang is still being produced and sold by Kraft Foods, both here and abroad. Who knew?

Other beverages available at the Brazilian Store include Guaraná Antarctica, which a store employee told me is one of the most popular soft drinks in Brazil. It is made from the guaraná berry, which contains twice the amount of caffiene as a coffee bean, of which it is comparable in size:

While small, the Brazilian Store, which occupies a small corner of the Brazilian Cafe, does sell more than just beverages. Other offerings include sugar cane:

and coconut bread:

That said, visiting Manchester's Latin food markets, I couldn't escape tropical and otherwise fruity beverages. At Tropical Food Market, 334 Union St., the tropical sodas were plentiful. Flavors included coconut, raspberry, merengue and "kola":

Another such drink is Pony Malta, a carbonated malt beverage from Columbia:

But as with the Brazilian Store, there's more to Tropical Food Market than just sodas and juices. This store, which sells products from Mexico and around the Caribbean basin, also carries products like cactus:

And catering, as it does, to the city's Latin residents, many of whom are Catholic, Tropical Food Market also carries candles of all of your favorite saints, as well as little baby Jesus: