Apple juice has gained in popularity over the last few years. I know I have always enjoyed it. However, a lot more people turned to apple juice when orange juice prices began to go up dramatically. It seems that perhaps some other fruit juice (and that fruits growers) are about to be bumped up in the ranks, at least temporarily. China, as in so many other areas, has become the worlds supplier of apples. Due to a late frost and bad weather there, and in Poland which is also a big apple producer, the apple crop is about 10% lower for 2007 than the previous year. This means that supply is low while demand is high. British supermarket giant Tesco has already admitted that it's seen purchase prices go up, but hasn't made any decisions on what the retail prices will do.
Personally, I love apple juice. I recently found out that it is also a good source of vitamin C. No wonder so many people turned to it from orange juice (which I also enjoy enthusiastically). Hopefully this will be a fluke year and the prices won't go up too much or for a prolonged period of time. I think, though, that I'm going to stock up while the prices are good.
[Via ColdMud.com]
1-24-2008 @1:46PM Jason said... Apple juice is pretty good, but the stuff found in the stores is usually processed the a point that it loses a lot of its natural healthy goodness. Fresh pressed juice (from a press or a juice extractor) is the best. Healthier, cheaper, tastier.
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1-24-2008 @3:08PM Rob said... Fortified apple juice may have vitamin C, but by itself, apple juice offers little to none.
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1-24-2008 @6:02PM Liz Petty said... Why can't the U.S. just get its supply of apple juice from apple-rich parts of the country? There are plenty of areas of this country -- especially Upstate New York, where I live -- that grow enormous amounts of apples and make their own apple juice. I'm pretty sure most of the apple juice sold here in Upstate New York comes from New York State farms.
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