Fruit juice in history

Beginning in the 19th century, the most common way of serving fruit juices was with added sugar and water in the form of ades, such as appleade, lemonade, orangeade and strawberryade. These were sometimes served icy cold and called sherbets.

The first non-alcoholic fruit juice sold commercially was made from grapes. The fruit juice processing industry of the United States is said to have been started by Dr Thomas B. Welch and his son Charles in Vineland, New Jersey in 1868.

In home fruit was juiced by hand until 1930, when the first commercial juicing machine was marketed by Norman Walker, who encouraged a diet of raw food and juices. Juicing became popular in America during the 1970s.

A new addition to the fruit juice market was frozen juices, which were first marketed during the 1930s. During World War II scientists developed a process for making powdered orange juice.

The advent of gas chromatography in the 1950s, its coupling with the diagnostic strength of mass spectroscopy and the remarkable improvements in column sensitivity have no doubt been critical factors in the generation of the large numbers of beverages flavors and drink types available on today’s market.

The majorities of the active flavour components of most fruit types have been identified and provide the beverage technologist with the basis for the addition of certain characters in the development of a new product.
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History of Welch’s Grape Juice

Welch’s Food is the manufacturing and marketing unit of the National Grape Cooperative Association. Welch’s is especially famous for its grape juice, though it offers other products as well.

Dr. Thomas Bramwell Welch, a dentist and the inventor of grape juice had learned of the experiments of Pasture in the control of fermentation.

He successfully pasteurized the juice of the Concord grape to create an ‘unfermented sacramental wine’ that he marketed to churches.

Welch took advantage of the Colombian Exposition of 1893 to set up a stand and distribute samples of grape juice to the crowds gathered in Chicago, as he did later at the St. Louis World’s Fair and at other expositions.

Soon after, Dr. Welch’s Grape Juice became simply Welch’s Grape Juice. In 1903, the Welch company was re-chartered and three years later it built a second factory in Westfield because its original plant could not meet the demand even though it was producing 350,000 gallons per year.

In 1911, the company expanded again, buying a large manufacturing facility in North Eats, Pennsylvania. Welch’s received a free publicity boost in 1913 when Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan served Welch’s Grape Juice instead of wine at a diplomatic gathering honoring retiring British ambassador James Bryce.

The success of Welch’s Grape Juice was truly remarkable, with fifty thousand gallons sold in 1897 and one million a decade later.

In 1956, the company was purchased by the National Grape Co-operative Association, a coalition of grape growers and was renamed Welch Foods.

In 1981, the Dr Pepper Company purchased the rights to Welch’s Sparkling Grape Soda and it other soft drinks.
History of Welch’s Grape Juice

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Fruit always played an important role in human nutrition.

However, before the 20th century, drinking squeezed fruit juice was the privilege of a few.

Welch was the first to reserve grape juice with heat treatment in America in 1869, followed by Muller-Thurgan in Switzerland in 1896.

Thus began the production of preserved fruit juices, which was followed by a huge development in the 20th century.

The role of vitamins and minerals in the human body was discovered at that time, which triggered substantial changes in eating habits.

Consequently, fruit consumption has become an everyday need.

Due to the revolutionary development of technical equipment, the appearance of chemicals and biological substances (enzymes, clarifying and flavoring agents), and the applications of new technological procedures, especially the aseptic technique – which enabled the production of fruit juices without preservatives – of fruit juice production became widespread.
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