15 Facts About Cranberry juice

Cranberry juice is the liquid juice of the cranberry, typically manufactured to contain sugar, water, and other fruit juices.

The tartness of cranberry juice derives from its mixed content of polyphenols, including flavonoids, proanthocyanidins, anthocyanins, phenolic acids, and ellagitannins.

Cranberry juice is an acidic drink with a pH of about 2.

In September 2017, Ocean Spray, a major cranberry juice manufacturer, submitted a health claim petition to the FDA.

At the processing plant, the cranberries go through a sequence of fruit crushing, mash maceration, mash heating, juice pressing, and pasteurization to produce a cranberry concentrate that is separated from pulp.

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Traditionally, cranberry juice is commercially sterilized though thermal processing to eliminate any pathogenic or spoilage-causing microorganisms and spores.

The prepared cranberry juice product is heat treated by high temperature-short time or ultra-high temperature techniques and packaged into aseptic, hermetically-sealed containers.

In 2017, new methods of cranberry juice processing included high pressure processing and pulsified electric field technology.

All cranberry juice products are required to be packed in aseptic, hermetically seal containers in accordance with good manufacturing practices of their country.

Ocean Spray and Fruit d'Or cranberry juice products have a frozen shelf life of 24 months and 36 months, respectively.

The cranberry juice or concentrate in the mixture must be produced from clean, sound, mature, well-colored, and washed, fresh or frozen cranberries .

The use of food additives into cranberry juice depends on the percentage of cranberry juice or concentrate by volume.

The finished cranberry juice from concentrate product should yield a minimum of one part cranberry juice concentrate to three parts water with a minimum Brix level of 12°.

Canadian markets, cranberry juice is regulated as a processed product under fruit juices.

Cranberry juice must be made from sound, clean, and ripe cranberries.