Juice

Our juice business offers orange, lime, and lemon juices, and associated by-products.

When citrus fruit is processed, nothing is wasted. Juice is extracted, oils are recovered and all remaining pulp is transformed into citrus-pulp pellets.

The energy- and fiber-rich pellets are used as an animal feed ingredient, and the oil essences and aromas are primarily used by the flavor and fragrance industries, to which we are a major supplier.

We also produce dry peel from our ripe oranges, lemon and lime. This is used for pectin extraction. Pectin is sold on to the food industry as a gelling agent, thickening agent and stabilizer in food.

Brazil and the US are the main producers of orange juice. The state of Florida supplies about 75% of North American consumption and Brazil supplies the rest, though its primary market is the EU. The rest of the world also relies on Brazilian production, and consumption growth is greatest in emerging markets.

As a fundamental element of our juice business, we continually strive to build sustainable solutions into our operations at every step of the juice value chain, to meet growing consumer demand for products that are responsibly sourced and produced.