Buy “as Canadian possible” | Fruit juice

Buying Canadian can look simple, but it’s not always. If, in the era of customs duties imposed by Donald Trump, we want to make choices that benefit more from our economy, we must have adequate knowledge. In each text of this section, we look at a product category to allow you to go to the bottom of things.

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Orange juice is a subject that we have often been asked to deal with in this section. Here come time to look into it! To rattle wider, we have chosen to also include other fruit juices, since for some people, they are interchangeable.

We have included all types of fruit juice, both those that contain only fruit as those that contain many added sugars. However, we have excluded iced teas, sparkling drinks and smoothies, since they do not seem to be part of the same category.

Finally, we chose the fruit juices ready to drink as is, which excludes lime or lemon juice as well as the powders and drops to add to water.

There are a lot of fruit juice brands, so this census is not exhaustive. It aims to cover the main brands offered in grocery stores, as well as the smallest Quebec brands.

Quebec and Canadian juice

We suspect: many ingredients in Quebec and Canadian juices are imported, by the way, due to our climate. Here are still juices that are prepared here, by companies here.

The Quebec company Lassonde is the one that distributes the most widely juice. She has the Oasis, Rougemont, Kiju, Allen’s, Fruity, Orange house and Sunrype brands. According to the information we have found, all of these juices are made in Quebec or Canada. It should be noted that the oranges used for oasis juice come from Brazil.

Lassonde also has the RED Rights Rights Monte for the sale of juice in Canada.

The Tradition brand, which is also easy to find on tablets, belongs to the family business Vergers Paul Jodoin. The company also produces Bennett’s prune juice.

The Heritage 77 brand belongs to Maison de la Pomme de Frelighsburg. This orchard also produces the Huck’s apple juice brand.

Other Quebec juices that are found on the tablets are produced under the loop, dose, superfruit, impress, Nutra-Fruit, Fruit, Gaïos, Zamalek and Hibisera.

The case of the Sealtest lemonade is particular: the brand belongs to the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever, but it is used under license in Canada by the Agropur cooperative, whose head office is in Longueuil.

Among the smallest producers, several orchards obviously sell their apple juice. One can think of the juices of the marks La Pommalbonne, Verger Maia, the Vergers du Cap, Domaine Lafrance or even Bio-V.

Companies that cultivate other fruits (blueberries, cranberries, camels or neat berries) also sell their products by declining them in juice. We can notably think of gold fruit, patience fruit & co, delicacies of Lac-Saint-Jean, wild blue, Mistouk cameries, camer producers, Roy drinks, Hiberna, Argousiers du Lac Brome, Léikora superit.

The importer Cedar Phoenicia, which belongs to the Quebec Metro company, also markets several juices. It was not possible to confirm their place of manufacture.

Elsewhere in Canada, we find the producers of the Alphonse juices, Happy Planet, Greenhouse Juice, just juice and Red Crown.

Foreign juice (non -American)

The Sunnyd brand (formerly known as Sunny Delight) belongs to Harvest Hill Beverage, a company located in the United States which has recently been bought by Castillo Hermanos, Guatemala.

The Bioitalia company is located in Italy and manufactures its juices there. The Brazilian company Natural One also markets juice here.

American juice

The American company Coca-Cola has several brands of juice, mainly the juice Simply, minute maid, deli-record and fruitopia. She did not respond to our request for information as to the place of production of these, but according to information contained on the website of large grocery channels, it seems that the products of these brands sold here are generally manufactured in Canada. Coca-Cola also has the Honest Kids juices.

Tropicana juice belongs to the American company Pepsico, which also has the Dole and Ceres juice. It was not possible to confirm the place of manufacture of their products sold in Canada.

Ocean spray juices belong to an American cooperative bringing together several cranberry cultivators, including Canadian producers.

Here are some other American companies that sell juice with us: Bolthouse, Pom, Lakewood, Blue Monkey, Knudsen and Langers. It was not possible to confirm the place of production of these juices.

This section is written from information publicly online accessible, as well as answers to our questions provided by companies, when these have answered our requests. If you have additional information, do not hesitate to write to us.