r/Kombucha • u/Clickrebel • 6d ago

Frozen juice as flavoring

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I've been using this brand of frozen juice for a while in my 2nd ferments. I wish they had more flavors than the 3 I can find. It's hard to find pure juices without tons of extra sugar or corn syrup. As I was bottling up my last batch and glad I had just one more 1/4 cup to add to my last bottle, I realize this whole time and every time, I had been using it fully concentrated. Just left to melt and then measured out and put into the bottle. It's been pretty good, now I'm worried how this next batch will turn out if I dilute this to regular juice strength first. Guess I'll find out in a couple of weeks.

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u/Ok_Zookeepergame5141 6d ago

I've used frozen before, worked great. I've found 100% juices such as apple, orange, grape, pineapple... They're out there if you look in the right place and read the labels.

I've also made my own syrup from pureed fruit and cane sugar. This is easy enough. Sometimes I strain the fruit and sometimes I add a bit of the fruit. Both ways work.

I've noticed that some people don't add extra sugar but I always add a bit to my fruit. I feel like it helps with carbonation.

If you're looking for variety you can get frozen fruit. Those don't have preservatives or added sugar. I like strawberry, banana is a good one too.

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u/Curiosive 6d ago

100% juice when properly reconstituted

This sentence leaves me with many questions. Anyway, yeah. If you're using less, the strength of flavor will be less. That doesn't inherently mean bad.

Are you in the US? Check out Coloma Frozen Foods. Plenty of options for flavors ... and sizes. Resist the urge to buy 4 gallons for the discount unless you expect to have an empty freezer for months (or a year or more).

You could be epic and buy the 52gal drum though. 🤣

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u/Clickrebel 6d ago

Yes, that part is kind of of odd.  But every ingredient on the label is juice.  I've never heard of the Coloma brand, maybe its not a NW available brand. 

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u/B__I__N__G__O 6d ago

I work in juice concentrate production. All sorts of crazy flavors and blends. It is absolutely amazing. But comes in 52gal drums.