What is NFC juice?

Summer is the season to drink beverages, many consumers see 100% fruit juice on the packaging, that is equivalent to pure fruit juice. Many beverage manufacturers will be "100% juice" labeled in the product packaging in a prominent position to attract consumers.

In fact, most consumers want to buy 100% fruit juice, in fact, no added NFC juice. Today, I will take you to recognize the NFC juice.

NFC juice (non-concentrated also original juice)

NFC's full name is Not From Concentrate, non-concentrated also original juice, is the fresh original fruit washing and pressing the juice, after instant sterilization directly filling, without concentration and recovery, retaining the nutrition and flavor of the fruit, NFC product ingredient list for the freshly squeezed juice or original juice with pulp. This means that the juice you drink is the converted version of the fruit, without any other ingredients added.

FC Juice (Concentrated Reduced Juice)

But very often, we also see the ingredients list of the labeled 100% fruit juice but there is water, fruit juice concentrate or and sugar, what is this 100% fruit juice? In fact, this is FC juice, meaning that after high-temperature concentration to remove water, to be filled in accordance with the same proportion of water and then restore or blend into juice, not really 100% juice, but 100% will be juice reduction.

So this only more water juice concentrate, whether it is only diluted, it is equivalent to the nutritional value of NFC juice? The answer is of course no.

From the production process, NFC juice and FC juice from fresh fruit to juice have to go through the cleaning, crushing, juicing, filtration treatment to form the original juice, but compared to NFC, FC juice to go through more concentration, blending two steps before sterilization, filling, while NFC is directly sterilized, filling. Therefore, in the concentration, blending of the link, and the loss of some heat-resistant nutrients, such as vitamin C, vitamin B1, vitamin B2. so, NFC juice nutrients are really more than FC juice.