At Aldi, Lidl, Rewe and Co .: Don’t fall for the 1 percent trick

Fruit and vegetable juices are very popular in Germany. Around 30 liters are consumed annually by every citizen. After water and soft drinks, they therefore rank third among the most popular non-alcoholic drinks. Above all the orange juice, of which, from a purely statistical point of view, around 7.5 liters per capita are drunk every year.

Fruit juice drinks not only taste good, the juices are also available in different flavor combinations and at different prices, so that there is something for every taste and budget.

Many consumers are primarily guided by the pictures on the packaging when choosing a juice. The different fruits indicate a high fruit content. In most cases, however, the exact opposite is the case: many juices often only consist of a small proportion of the fruit shown and a large proportion of water and apple juice.

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Berries and exotic fruits in the juice: fruit content often lower than expected

In a broadcast of the NDR, popular juices were examined more closely and examined for their actual proportion of the fruits shown on the label.

In fact, the products presented contained only a fraction of the fruit advertised. For example, the Valensina brand “Mango-Orange-Ananas”, which only contained one percent mango pulp, 15 percent pineapple juice and 42 percent orange juice made from orange juice concentrate; the rest of the juice is filled up to 5 percent with banana market and 37 percent with apple juice. The latter ingredient in particular is often used as a filler in juices because it is cheap and is readily available in Germany.

Consumers are therefore advised to always look at the list of ingredients before buying a juice. There you can see exactly what proportion of the supposed exotic juice actually consists of these fruits or whether the product was largely filled with apple juice.

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