How do fruit juice companies make and bottle a consistently tasting product every time?

Question

Given that fruits and vegetables are vastly different in their regions grown, the quality obtained throughout how can they maintain a consistent flavor with every single bottle, whether made fresh or from conentrates, despite wildly different flavored

Tropicana, Minute Maid, Naked, Bolthouse Farms, Odwalla (still a brand?) and I’m sure many other smaller domestic US and foreign brands…

Each bottle tastes the same everyday, all day, but real produce varies wildly.

So, how does product consistency *really* occur?

In: Biology

Answer 1

They’re allowed to make flavorings from oranges and still say there’s only oranges on the ingredients. So they can make a lot of compounds that would normally fall into “natural flavors” but since they’re 100% derived from oranges they’re all good to call it pure orange juice. The big companies employ a lot of smart chemists who have figured out how to turn oranges into basically anything you want so they can keep the flavor consistent bottle to bottle.