JUCIES

Juice is a beverage created by pressing or extracting the natural liquid found in fruits and vegetables. Liquids flavoured with concentrate or other biological food sources, such as meat or seafood, such as clam juice, are examples. Juice is widely consumed as a beverage or as a flavouring or component in foods and other beverages, such as smoothies. After the introduction of pasteurisation technologies, which allowed for the preservation of juice without the use of fermentation, juice became a popular beverage choice (which is used in wine production). [1] New Zealand (almost a cup, or 8 ounces) and Colombia are the two countries that eat the most fruit juice (more than three quarters of a cup each day). On average, fruit juice consumption  rises with age

Preparation

In an Afghan fruit concentrate facility, pomegranates are washed before being processed.

Without the use of heat or solvents, juice is made by mechanically squeezing or macerating (also known as cold pressing[4]) fruit or vegetable flesh. Orange juice, for example, is the liquid extract of the orange tree's fruit, whereas tomato juice is the liquid obtained by pressing the tomato plant's fruit. Fresh fruit and vegetables can be juiced in the home using a variety of hand or electric juicers. Although many commercial juices are filtered to remove fibre or pulp, fresh orange juice with a high pulp content remains a popular beverage. Sugar and artificial flavours (in some fruit juice-based beverages) are used as additives in some juices.

Cleaning and organising the food supply

Extracting juice

Filtration, squeezing, and clarifying

Pasteurization and blending

Sterilization, filling, and sealing

Refrigeration, labelling, and packaging

The juice is extracted using one of two automated procedures after the fruits have been plucked and washed. Two metal cups with sharp metal tubes on the bottom cup come together in the first way, removing the peel and driving the fruit flesh through the metal tube. The fruit juice subsequently exits via the tube's microscopic perforations. The peels can then be used again after being washed to remove the oils, which are then regained for further use. The second process includes cutting the fruits in half before putting them through reamers to extract the juice.

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