Patent ID: 6143347
Filing Date: 2000-11-07
Classification: A23L

Abstract:
A method of preparing early season not from concentrate orange juice, comprising the steps of:harvesting a very early season orange cultivar selected from the group consisting of a cultivar within the Seleta family of cultivars, a Westin cultivar, a Ruby Nucellar cultivar, or a combination of these very early season cultivars, said harvesting being very early in the harvesting season for orange fruit, namely no later than the harvesting season of Hamlin orange fruit in the growing territory;extracting juice from a volume of said very early season oranges of said harvesting step;collecting the resulting extracted orange juice as an early season orange juice having a Color Number of at least 33 CN units, said Color Number being greater than Hamlin orange juice harvested at the time of said harvesting step; andblending said extracted early season orange juice with another orange juice source in order to provide a not from concentrate orange juice product having a Color Number in excess of 33 CN units, while also exhibiting sensory qualities substantially equivalent to the sensory qualities of Hamlin orange juice.