FRUIT JUICE WITH MILK

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30998, 2 March 1966, Page 11

FRUIT JUICE WITH MILK

Tauranga Move

Grapefruit juice is now being bottled at the Tauranga milk treatment plant and delivered (on order) to customers with their milk. Two Tauranga orchardists have devised a machine for extracting the juice of grapefruit not suitable for sale as dessert fruit. The machine produces pure juice which is made into a syrup. The liquid is homogenised and then chilled and bottled in milk bottles. The Rotorua milk treatment station has also introduced a sideline by selling pure orange juice in half-pint bottles.

However, the Dairy Division, Department of Agriculture has advised both companies that the venture must be undertaken only on the basis of a small scale test and the following precautionary measures must be taken:— (a) Fruit processing is not to begin until the day’s milk processing has been completed. (b) The milk pasteuriser is not to be used for heat treating fruit products. (c) No milk storage vessel is to be used for holding fruit product, neither should there be inter-connection of vessels containing the two different products. (d) Extraction of juice from the fruit is not to be undertaken in the milk treatment station.