I have been working of late, and learning much about the juice and juicing industry.
It is quite staggering to know exactly what goes into making the drinking product from fruit, and I think if we could somehow cut the juice industry's production methods down a notch (part of my job), we would provide some excellent benefits in both cost, and environmental impact.
Further more, I think I'm learning more about juices than I ever wanted to know LOL...
Like, how it takes 4hrs to press 4 tons of apples in a Bucher press with an efficiency of 75% yield w/w... ie, they only recover 3 tons of juice product from the press... but when you consider that an apple has actually ~90%+ liquids.... it's about 15%+ liquids/juice in the apple press cake going to waste..... unless they use a LOT of water to rinse it and re-press the press cake (which some companies do, some don't)..... It all adds up to figures quoted that each litre of juice takes anywhere from 10-1000L of water to produce (inclusive of machinery washdown/cleaning also). Staggering figures to think about.
It is quite staggering to know exactly what goes into making the drinking product from fruit, and I think if we could somehow cut the juice industry's production methods down a notch (part of my job), we would provide some excellent benefits in both cost, and environmental impact.
Further more, I think I'm learning more about juices than I ever wanted to know LOL...
Like, how it takes 4hrs to press 4 tons of apples in a Bucher press with an efficiency of 75% yield w/w... ie, they only recover 3 tons of juice product from the press... but when you consider that an apple has actually ~90%+ liquids.... it's about 15%+ liquids/juice in the apple press cake going to waste..... unless they use a LOT of water to rinse it and re-press the press cake (which some companies do, some don't)..... It all adds up to figures quoted that each litre of juice takes anywhere from 10-1000L of water to produce (inclusive of machinery washdown/cleaning also). Staggering figures to think about.
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