What Is The Difference Between Apple Juice And Apple Cider?
7October 8, 2009 by Atila
I went to the store for apple juice and noticed the apple cider (same size and brand) was cheaper. I checked the ingredients label to see what the difference was and all they said was, contains apple juice from concentrate and apple cider from concentrate. So whats the difference?
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You might be surprised to learn that apple juice and apple cider are technically the same – they are both 100% juice from the apple. Some apple juice manufacturers also use processes to clarify the juice, resulting in a clear appearance. In fact, the greatest volume of apple juice sold in the United States is clarified apple juice.
Cider is a broad term that is often used to refer to a number of different products (apple cider, sweet cider, hard cider and so on). For example, in the United States, the word cider refers to the freshly expressed juice of the apple. In England and Australia, the word is used to describe fermented juice, which Americans actually call hard cider. When cider is allowed to ferment or partially ferment, it has distinct characteristics that many have come to recognize – including tart taste and dark, cloudy appearance.
Whether choosing apple juice or apple cider, consumers are recommended to select shelf-stable, frozen or other fruit juices and ciders that have been pasteurized or appropriately heat-treated for safety. If a juice or cider has not been pasteurized, the Food and Drug Administration requires that it be labeled as such to inform consumers.
Keep in mind, the shelf-stable and frozen apple juices found in your grocery store are pasteurized or otherwise heat-treated (unless they contain the unpasteurized label required by the FDA) and may even carry the label “apple cider” during certain times of the year! It all depends on whether the term cider has more appeal in a particular market area.
Apple juice is a fruit juice manufactured by the maceration and pressing of apples. The resulting expelled juice may be further treated by enzymatic and centrifugal clarification to remove the starch and pectin, which holds fine particulate in suspension, and then pasteurised for packaging in glass, metal or aseptic processing system containers, or further treated by dehydration processes to a concentrate.
Apple cider is the name for an unfiltered, unsweetened, non-alcoholic beverage produced from apples. It is opalescent, or opaque, due to the fine apple particles in suspension, and may be tangier than conventional filtered apple juice, depending on varietal characteristics of the apples used.
While “apple juice” generally refers to the filtered, pasteurised product of apple pressing, an unfiltered and sometimes unpasteurised, product commonly known as apple cider in the United States and parts of Canada, may be packaged and sold as “apple juice”. In the U.S., there is an unclear distinction between filtered apple juice and “natural” apple cider. In other places, such as New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom, “apple cider” is an alcoholic beverage. The alcoholic beverage referred to as “cider” in these areas, is usually referred to as “hard cider” in the United States.
Isn’t apple cider more sour… I think that they let the apples ferment a bit b4 they juice them cause you can also get alchoholic apple cider
apple cider has spices in it; apple juice doesn’t
I think cinamon is in cider
it all depends. i get thick cider and juice isnt thick
spice