Lakewood Premium Pure Cranberry Juice | 100% Cranberry, Not from Concentrate, 32oz Glass

Description

Lakewood Premium Pure Cranberry Juice is single-ingredient, unsweetened cranberry juice. Each 32oz glass bottle is pressed from 3 lbs. of cranberries, not from concentrate, with no added sugar, no added water, and no preservatives. It's intensely tart, and most people dilute it rather than drinking it straight.

What is in it?

One ingredient: cranberry juice. That's the complete list. There is no added sugar, no cane juice, no apple or grape juice used as a sweetener, no added water, and no preservatives.

Is it made from concentrate?

No. This juice is not from concentrate. The cranberries are pressed and bottled without being reduced to concentrate and reconstituted with water. That's why each 32oz bottle takes 3 lbs. of fruit.

Is it organic?

No. Lakewood Premium Pure Cranberry Juice is not certified organic. For certified organic cranberry juice, see Lakewood Organic Pure Cranberry Juice, which is single-ingredient in the same way.

How is Premium different from Lakewood Organic Pure Cranberry?

The difference is the certification, not the recipe. Both are single-ingredient, unsweetened cranberry juice, both not from concentrate, both pressed from 3 lbs. of fruit per 32oz bottle, and both bottled in glass. Lakewood Organic Pure Cranberry is certified organic. This Premium version is not. If organic certification is what you're after, choose the Organic. If you want the same unsweetened, full-strength cranberry juice without it, this is the one.

What does pure cranberry juice taste like?

Sharply tart and astringent, closer to a raw cranberry than to the sweetened cranberry cocktail sold in most stores. Pure cranberry has none of the added sugar that makes cranberry cocktail drinkable straight, so the first sip is intense. That intensity is the point: it's what unsweetened, undiluted cranberry actually tastes like.

What's the difference between cranberry juice and cranberry juice cocktail?

Cranberry juice cocktail is mostly water and sweetener with a minority of actual cranberry juice in it. Pure cranberry juice is cranberry juice and nothing else. That's the whole difference: cocktail is a sweetened, cranberry-flavored drink, while pure cranberry is the fruit's juice as it comes out of the press.

How do you drink pure cranberry juice?

Most people dilute it. Common approaches: mix 1 to 2 oz into 8 oz of still or sparkling water; blend it into a smoothie with apple, banana, or berries to balance the tartness; take it as a 1 to 2 oz shot if you like intensity; or dilute it with hot water. Shake before serving, since natural juices settle. Refrigerate after opening and use within 2 weeks.

Is there added sugar in it?

No. There is no added sugar. The only sugars present occur naturally in the fruit, and cranberries are naturally low in sugar, which is why the juice tastes as sharp as it does.

What's the nutrition information?

Per 8oz serving:

• Calories: 80
• Total carbohydrates: 19g
• Total sugars: 11g
• Sodium: 10mg

Bottle: 32oz glass. Servings per bottle: 4.

Is it kosher?

Yes. Certified kosher by KOF-K.

Is it gluten-free and allergen-free?

It is gluten-free and free from the top nine FDA-listed major food allergens. It is also non-GMO.

What kind of bottle is it in?

Glass. Every Lakewood juice is bottled in glass rather than plastic, non-toxic and free from BPA, BPS, and DEHP.

Is "100% juice" the same as pure cranberry juice?

Not necessarily. Many products labeled 100% juice are blends, with apple or grape juice as the base and a smaller share of cranberry for flavor and color. The label can be truthful and still mean most of what's in the bottle isn't cranberry. This one lists a single ingredient. To check any bottle, read the ingredient list rather than the front label. If you see apple, grape, or pear juice, or anything listed as concentrate, it's a blend.

What can you make with it?

Pure cranberry's tartness balances sweet mixers and spirits, so it works as the base for a Cosmopolitan or a cranberry spritz, and it holds up in sauces, marinades, glazes, and sorbets where you want tart fruit without added sugar.

What makes Lakewood different?

Lakewood has been pressing juice since 1935. Every bottle is glass, not plastic, and made from whole fruit pressed at the source.

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Ingredients

Cranberry Juice

Directions

Refrigerate after opening. For best quality and freshness, use within 2 weeks of opening. Natural juices products will settle, shake before serving.