Apple juice

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Apple juice is a fruit juice made by the maceration and pressing of an apple. The resulting expelled juice may be further treated by enzymatic and centrifugal clarification to remove the starch and pectin, which hold fine particulate in suspension, and then pasteurized for packaging in glass, metal, or aseptic processing system containers, or further treated by dehydration processes to a concentrate. Because the equipment required to extract and clarify apple juice in large volumes is complex and costly, apple juice is normally produced commercially. In the United States, unfiltered fresh apple juice is produced by smaller operations in regions with high apple production, in the form of unclarified apple cider. Apple juice is one of the most common fruit juices globally, with world production led by China, Poland, the United States, and Germany.

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