Juice from concentrate

[nikkie]

I know its not as good as fresh juice but what is in it that is so bad?

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From concentrate juice is never going to be as good as freshly qeezed but then again,much fo the veg inour supermarkets is far from fresh.

Oranges are squeezed at sourse and then concentrated down to a thick gooey like consistency-ie water is removed.
Gooey stuff is shipped to UK and then the same amount of water that was removed in country of origin is added back,product is pasteurised and then packed in a carton.
Not from concentrate skips the "gooey stage" but is still pasteurised.
Both are pure juice.If it says pure juice on the carton then that is waht it is-no preservatives,flavours,sugar,colours etc etc.

Thats what I thought , If it is similar prices I buy fresh otherwise concentrate but got slated recently for not buying fresh¬!

It's a helluva lot better than squash!

TBH I'm not convinced that NFC juice is really so much better than from-concentrate. Heat-treating destroys quite a bit of the vit-c in the juice. It may sound more 'natural' but it's still a processed product. Personally I think you're better off with eating fruit (all the nutrition and the roughage) and drinking water. The sugar percentage of the juice is much higher than eating fresh fruit.

I believe that even if it is labelled "pure" they are allowed to add some sugar to bring it up to an "accepted level" and they don't have to mention this.

My DH works in a marketing type company and recently had an orange juice client. He was brainstorming with them and asked why they didn't use all the health giving advantages over juice from concentrate in their adverts. they shamefacedly admitted it was because there aren't any. From that moment on, we started to buy juice from concentrate - it is a lot cheaper.

Tooticky - no they can't add sugar and call it 'pure'. It is concentrate and water. Some have 'top notes' added - which are fruit oils to make the juice sharper or sweeter but not sugar. Some brands have added vitamins but they tend to be the 'fruit juice drinks'.

I read that concentrate has higher acid levels & so may upset the digestion more than freshly squeezed.

I stand corrected. I can't remember where I read it.

This is an interesting explanation from the Innocent smoothies people about why they don't use concentrates: www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/our_drinks/badness/

Someone in the industry also told me that the juices made from concentrate always use the lower-quality fruit, so yes it is still 'pure' fruit but not the best kind.

I did read a comparison of what Innocent spend per tonne on their fruit compared to the from-concentrate figures, and it was something like 3 or 4 times higher. I can't find the figures now, I'll have another look.

For me, the taste thing is most important. I can tell not-from-concentrate apart every time. Although home-juiced is even better.

I would say if cost is a real issue, then any fruit juice or fruit/veg portions are better than none, but in terms of quality, not from concentrate wins every time.

Terra Mum-if anything it is the other way round-from concentrate juice has to be of a certain "brix" ie sugar level when packed,to be legal so acidity will be within a very narrow specification.
Frshly squeezed however-it whatever the oranges happen to be.