Purpose
This Standard defines fruit and vegetable juice, sets certain compositional permissions for the product and specifies labelling requirements for juice blends.
Table of Provisions
1 Interpretation
2 Composition
3 Labelling of juice blend
Clauses
1 Interpretation
In this Code –
fruit juice or vegetable juice means the liquid portion, with or without pulp, obtained from –
(a) fruit or vegetables respectively; and
(b) in the case of citrus fruit, other than lime, the endocarp only of the fruit;
and includes products that have been concentrated and later reconstituted with water to a concentration consistent with that of the undiluted juice from which it was made.
juice blend means juice made from a blend of more than one juice.
2 Composition
Fruit juice or vegetable juice may have added to it any of the following foods –
(a) for vegetable juice, sugars;
(b) for fruit juice, no more than 40 g/kg of sugars; and
(c) salt; and
(d) herbs and spices.
3 Labelling of juice blend
(1) Subject to subclause (2), the label on a package of juice blend must include –
(a) the names of each juice present in the blend; and
(b) the percentage by volume of each juice present in the blend.
(2) Subclause (1) does not apply to orange juice which contains no more than ten % in total of –
(a) mandarin juice; or
(b) tangelo juice;
or both.
Editorial note:
See Part 1.2 – Labelling and Other Information Requirements of this Code for general labelling requirements. See Standard 1.3.1 – Food Additives for limits for additives for fruit juice and vegetable juice. See Standard 1.3.3 – Processing Aids for requirements for processing aids in the production of fruit juice and vegetable juice.