Disappointed

[poliphilo]

Ailz- who has been educating herself on the skulduggery perpetrated by food companies and supermarkets- tells me the "fresh" orange juice I drink for breakfast contains as much sugar as coca-cola and is quite as worthless nutritionally. "Basically, just sugar water," she says.

And I thought I was doing myself so much good...

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I could be drinking home made apple juice too- I suppose.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

Most of my supply of apple juice is made at the family juice weekend - it's a lot easier to make 1200 litres of juice when you are a horde of people than to make 50 litres alone... There are so many processes involved that you really have to WANT it to do it alone. I'm not actually sure I recommend it - though the result is brilliant!

Picking, washing, grating, pressing, bottling, capping and pasteurising is just an awful lot if you want to make any significant quantity of juice. (Not to mention keeping everything clean and sterile throughout the processes as no preservatives are added...)

So my advice is to eat the apples as they are - or cook with them. I have bags and bags of raw, cut-up apples in my freezer, ready to be used in apple pies, apple trifles, and even as a sweet element in curries or for stuffing roast pheasants. (Also works for smoothies, of course.)

Can you tell I grew up with apple farming in my family? When I was a child and couldn't sleep I'd sometimes get a cup of hot apple juice in bed to comfort me... I still occasionally drink that when I have a cold or a 'flu and need comforting!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We bought a fruit press a couple of years back and I had a go at making apple juice- but it was such hard work...

We had a huge crop the first year we were here and stored them as they were in the garage and they lasted months. We ate a lot of apple pie that winter.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I bought a fruit press last year and used it - but it was as much out of a sense of nostalgia as anything. And it was a LOT easier making grape juice where I could just put in the rinsed clusters of grapes and it took little effort to turn the handle.