Category/Orange juices

Orange juices (2619 products on 7 april 2023) contain juice from oranges (). EU legislation requires a minimum of 99% orange fraction.

The category has been subdivided in Squeezed orange juices, for juices that come straight from orange, and Orange juices from concentrate for juice that has been first dehydrated and later hydrated.

It might be necessary to create subcategories for Orange juices with pulp (what percentage?) and Orange juices from AOP Valencia oranges or from blood oranges.

Ingredients

The orange juices have the following ingredients.

Required ingredients

• orange (48%) (a lot missing ingredients?);
• concentrated orange juice and water (4%) in the case of Orange juices from concentrate. The ingredient is often noted as Orange juice from concentrate (12%);

Optional ingredients (more than 1%)

• Ascorbic acid (E300) (5%);
• Antioxidant (3%);
• orange pulp (3%);
• Flavouring (1%);

Disallowed ingredients

• any other fruit;
• any sugars;
• any sweeteners;

Production process/labels

The most important labels:

• organic (14%);
• No added sugar (15%);
• No preservatives (7%);
• Vegetarian (6%);
• Nutriscore C (4%);
• No colorings (4%);
• Rainforest alliance (2%);
• Rich in Vitamin C (1%);

Nutritional information

		10%	90%		#products
Energy (kJ/100ml)	74	162	201	306	97%
Fat (%)	0	0	0.5	1.01	96%
Saturated fat (%)	0	0	0.1	1.01	95%
Carbohydrates (%)	3.5	8.6	11	15.6	96%
Sugars (%)	3.5	8.2	10	15.3	96%
Fiber (%)	0	0	0.7	2.71	45%
Proteins (%)	0	0.4	0.8	1.91	98%
Salt (%)	0	0	0.03	0.51	87%
Vitamin C (mg)	0.7	20	40	81	30%
Potassuim (mg)	56	169	200	243	6%
Fruit (%)	99	100	100	100	5%
Nutrition score	-3			18

Nutriscore

Nutriscore B-C with nutritional values between -1 and 6.

Related categories

• When the product contains less than 99% Orange, it can be found under orange nectars.
• Products with less than 50% orange as only fruit can be found under orange-based beverages.
• Products that contain multiple other fruits can be put under Multifruit nectars of Multifruit juices.

Quality Monitoring

Generic errors

• Errors

Categorisation errors

• Single ingredient check:
  • not applicable
• Minimal ingredients check
  • Orange
• Opposites:
  • Orange juices and Orange nectars should not be assigned simultaneously;
  • Orange juices with pulp and Orange juices without pulp should not be assigned simultaneously;

Nutritional errors

• Nutritional values envelope based on lower and upper limits:
  • Orange Juices - Mirabelle

Remarks

• an category opposite to Oranges juices from concentrate is missing;

Last cleanup by hand on 28 sep 2024.

References

• Orange juices in Mirabelle
• EU legislation