Comparing beverages

Finding the perfect blend

When it comes to staying well hydrated, you have a huge range of choices — everything from water to juice and milk all the way to fruit-juice beverages. Water, unsweetened fruit tea and herbal tea are all especially refreshing. But you also can mix things up by making juice spritzers and fruit-juice beverages.

The easiest way to quench your thirst is with mineral water. Not only does it give you the hydration you need to survive, most kinds of mineral water also provide important substances such as sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium, which help all support your metabolic processes. But who wants to spend all day drinking nothing but mineral water? It's not exactly the most exciting thing.

On the other hand, juices and fruit-juice beverages like Capri-Sonne make drinking lots of fun! Fruit-juice beverages and pure juices offer you variety and make you want to drink more. So what's the difference between fruit juice and a fruit-juice beverage?

Fruit juice consists of 100% juice. People who produce it speak of two different kinds:

• Unreconstituted juice
  means the fruit is pressed, and then the juice is usually heated to make it last longer before it is put into bottles or containers.
• Juice from concentrate
  is when the water is first removed from the juice, which leaves behind a thick substance, a concentrate. This makes it easier to transport the juice from where it is grown to where it is packaged. Later, the same amount of water that was originally removed is added back to the concentrate. It is heated and bottled at the plant.

Unlike fruit juices, fruit-juice beverages such as Capri-Sonne consist of several raw materials. In addition to fruit-juice concentrate, they also contain things such as natural flavorings. This base is mixed with sugar and water before being bottled. A liter of a fruit-juice beverage does not contain any more sugar than a 100% pure fruit juice. Not only that, the new Capri-Sonne flavors, Fan Drink, Beach Drink, Super-Kids and Jungle Drink, have approximately 30% less sugar*.

* in comparison to other soft drinks which contain fruit juice