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» For the alcoholic beverage known in the U.S. as hard apple cider, see cider.
Apple cider is the name used especially in the
United States and parts of
Canada for a non-alcoholic beverage produced from
apples by a process of pressing. It is more sour and cloudy than conventional
apple juice, retaining the tart flavor of the apple pulp which is lost in conventional fruit juice production.
Cider is frequently served in
autumn, corresponding with the
harvest season, and is a popular traditional beverage on
Halloween and
Thanksgiving, sometimes heated if the weather is especially cold.
Production
Apple cider was (like other forms of cider) traditionally fermented, but that alcoholic apple drink is now referred to in the United States as
hard cider. Today in the U.S., and in Canada to some extent, apple cider is a nonalcoholic beverage: a subcategory of
apple juice traditionally made from early-harvest apples which have a lower sugar content and are more acidic. Thus, cider has a more tart, tangy taste than apple juice. It is generally, though not always, unfiltered, giving it a somewhat cloudier appearance from suspended solids.
Pasteurization
According to the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration, as of 1999, 98% of all fruit and vegetable juice sold in the U.S. was
pasteurized,
Consequently, in 2001, the FDA issued a rule requiring that virtually all fruit and vegetable juice producers follow
HACCP controls, using either heat pasteurization,
ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) or other proven methods. As a result, all
apple cider sold in the United States, other than sales directly to consumers by producers (such as juice bars), must be produced using HACCP principles to achieve a 100,000 fold reduction in pathogens.
Today, unpasteurized cider is generally sold only on-site at small
orchards. Some seek unpasteurized juice based on the common but disputed belief that less-processed products are healthier.
American definition
In the United States, the distinction between
apple juice and
cider isn't legally well established.
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