Fruit Juice Analysis: Quality, Safety and Content Assessment

What is the Difference Between Fruit Juice and Fruit Nectar?

Characteristics of Fruit Juice

Fruit juice, which has an important place especially in child nutrition, is seen as a drink that should be consumed at breakfast. Today, among the ones we buy the most from the market...

So what is the fruit ratio in the fruit juices we buy?

Fruit juice; Within the scope of the “Turkish Food Codex Communiqué on Fruit Juice and Similar Products”; It is defined as a product that is intact, ripe, fresh or preserved in cold or freezing, obtained from the edible parts of a single fruit or more than one fruit mixture, has the characteristic color, aroma and taste of the fruits and fruits from which it is obtained, is not fermented but can be fermented.

It is divided into 4 groups by the Turkish Food Codex.

Fruit Juice Contains 100% fruit content
Fruit Nectar: Contains 25-99% fruit
Fruit Drink: Contains 10-24% fruit
Fruit Flavored Beverage: Contains 1-9% fruit

Fruit juices are obtained directly from the fruit. It can also be prepared by diluting the concentrate with water of drinkable quality that does not significantly affect the main composition and quality characteristics of the juice in the amount previously removed and by adding volatile flavoring substances separated during concentration.

Fruit nectars are unfermented products that can be prepared with fruit juice concentrate, fruit juice, fruit puree concentrate, fruit puree or a mixture of these with a fruit content of 25-99%.

Fruit drinks are products that can be prepared with fruit juice concentrate, fruit juice, fruit pulp concentrate, fruit pulp concentrate, fruit pulp and fruit syrup containing drinkable water, sweeteners, acids and additives in permitted amounts, with a fruit content between 10-24%.

Products that can be obtained from fruits other than fruit juice;

Fruit juice concentrate: a product obtained by evaporating the natural water in fruit juice to reduce the volume by up to 50%.
Fruit puree (pulp): It is the product obtained by separating inedible parts of fruits such as peel and seeds and mechanically crushing them.
Fruit pulp concentrate: It is the product obtained by evaporating the natural water in the fruit pulp to reduce the volume by up to 50%.

Nano-lab Laboratories Group continues to provide services within the scope of Fruit Juice Analysis. We also provide services in Fruit Juice Authenticity Determination.

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