eli5 Why is 100percent juice like 10x cheap than fruit?

Question

My reasoning is it should be more costly as they are doing extra work juicing it
It’s not scale Walmart can but fruit at scale and sell cheap

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Answer 1

The fruit you buy fresh is carefully and expensively selected for quality and desirability. This greatly inflates the cost. The juice you buy is made from fruit which otherwise will have never sold, and so the fruit itself is sold at a steep discount.