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Pure cranberry juice tastes extremely tart to the average American. You will almost never find 100% cranberry juice at a supermarket, but you will find 100% juice blends that have cranberry juice as a major flavor. Usually they mix it with a milder tasting juice like apple juice to cut the bitterness and add some sweetness. Others are mixed with corn syrup.
Ocean Sprays, Meijer mix it with grape and apple for a better taste and sweetness. Walmart's Old Orchard is mainly apple juice with added cranberry and aronia.
Cranberry blend 100% is still pure juice but blended with other fruit juices.
Pure 100% cranberry juice: Knudsen, Lakewood, Trader Joe's, Odwalla, Mountain Sun.
For a person like myself, who prefers the "cocktail" made from ONLY cranberries, it is diabolically hard to sort through the fine print on the labels and find a product that is not cut with another juice like grape or apple. Then, when I get home, I mix it half and half with water, to get maximum cranberry and minimum sugar. I could mix it at home with apple juice if I wanted to, but that's not what I want, and I resent the misleading labeling.
It would be nice if I could buy unsweetened cranberry juice, at a reasonable price and sweeten it at home according to MY taste, and not theirs. But that seems to be pretty much out of the question for a person who doesn't live in a big city with specialty stores.
For a person like myself, who prefers the "cocktail" made from ONLY cranberries, it is diabolically hard to sort through the fine print on the labels and find a product that is not cut with another juice like grape or apple. Then, when I get home, I mix it half and half with water, to get maximum cranberry and minimum sugar. I could mix it at home with apple juice if I wanted to, but that's not what I want, and I resent the misleading labeling.
It would be nice if I could buy unsweetened cranberry juice, at a reasonable price and sweeten it at home according to MY taste, and not theirs. But that seems to be pretty much out of the question for a person who doesn't live in a big city with specialty stores.
Could you puree whole berry cranberry sauce, perhaps?
Anyone know how much damage is done to the nutritional content of the juice by the concentration process?
Also, how long is it kept in such a state before being turned back into juice?
Why all the corn syrup?
Why do people have to mess with perfection?
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