Fruit juice is a product obtained from edible parts of one or more fruits mixed together. The fruit must be healthy, mature, fresh or frozen. Only things that can be added to fruit juice are: flavorings, fruit pulp or fruit tissue that is separated by physical processes from the same kind of fruit. Mixing fruit juice and fruit pulp is allowed in production of fruit juice, mixing fruit juice and fruit pulp is allowed.
Fruit juices can be:
- NFC ("not from concentrate") produced by directly squeezing fruit (Fruvita ONLY FRUIT & NOTHING MORE)
- FC ("from concentrate") produced produced from concentrate of one or several types of fruit (Fruvita 100% fruit juice)
Fruit nectars are products with fruit juice content ranging between 25% and 99%, which is made by adding water with or withouth sugar, citric acid, vitamins to fruit juice, fruit puree or a mix of these products.
Refreshing non-alcoholic drinks – refreshing non-alcoholic drinks (fruit drinks) is a product which consists of water, sugar (sweeteners), with or withouth fruit juice, flavors,allowed aditives, and can be enriched with vitamins and minerals. Fruit juice content in refreshing non-alcoholic drinks most often is up to 25% and can be produced as carbonated and non-carbonated.