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Fruit Juice Concentrate

Limit Free sugar Both food and personal care

Decode Label flags Fruit Juice Concentrate as a moderate concern in both food and personal care (free sugar). It appears in 24 of the 893 published products we have analysed (2.7%).

The concern

Concentrated fruit-juice sweetener — a free-sugar source, often used to sweeten "no added sugar" products

Fruit-juice concentrate is fruit juice with the water removed, leaving concentrated sugars (largely fructose and glucose). Nutritionally it behaves as a free sugar and is frequently used to sweeten products that market themselves as having "no added sugar". The WHO recommends no free sugars for infants and young children, so it is a particular concern in foods aimed at babies and toddlers.

Most relevant to

Anyone eating or using this regularly Children People with diabetes

Cited authority

WHO Guideline: Sugars intake (2015); WHO Ending inappropriate promotion of foods for infants

Linked sources: WHO →

How common it is in this catalogue

Measured across every product Decode Label has analysed — not estimated, and not taken from anyone else's dataset.

24 of 893 published products 2.7%

By category

Beverages 13
Food 7
Baby & Kids 2
Health & Supplements 1
Other 1

Hazard classification

WHO WHO Guideline: Sugars intake for adults and children (2015) — named as a free-sugar source Other route: oral 2015-03-04 source →

WHO's definition of 'free sugars' explicitly includes sugars in fruit juices and fruit juice concentrates. The guideline recommends free sugars stay below 10% of total energy intake, conditionally below 5%.

Identity

Canonical name
Fruit Juice Concentrate

Also appears on labels as

juice concentrate apple juice concentrate grape juice concentrate pear juice concentrate white grape juice concentrate concentrated fruit juice concentrated apple juice fruit juice solids

Questions

Is Fruit Juice Concentrate safe?

WHO: WHO Guideline: Sugars intake for adults and children (2015) — named as a free-sugar source. Why it is flagged: Concentrated fruit-juice sweetener — a free-sugar source, often used to sweeten "no added sugar" products. Decode Label treats it as a moderate concern in both food and personal care. It appears in 24 of the 893 published products we have analysed (2.7%).

How common is Fruit Juice Concentrate in Indian packaged products?

Decode Label found Fruit Juice Concentrate in 24 of 893 published products (2.7%), most often in Beverages, Food, Baby & Kids.

Which authorities have classified Fruit Juice Concentrate?

WHO — WHO Guideline: Sugars intake for adults and children (2015) — named as a free-sugar source.

Who should be most careful with Fruit Juice Concentrate?

Anyone eating or using this regularly; Children; People with diabetes.

Products containing Fruit Juice Concentrate

24 published products, each with its own full analysis.

B natural Low Calorie No Added Sugar Cranberry B natural Orange Britannia Flavoured Sandwich Biscuit Naughty Jam CEREGROW Multigrain Milk & Fruits Cereal CERELAC Baby Food Cereal Cadbury Bournville Orange 50% Dark Chocolate Bar Hellmann's Veg Mayonnaise Hellmanns Mayonnaise - Light Lipton Metabolism Boost with 150mg Green Tea Catechi... Loacker Quadratini Double Choc 125Gram - Italy - Cho... Nestle Cerelac Wheat Apple Cherry Baby Cereal Nestum Baby Cereal Organix Mamia Banana Rusk Biscotti Fingers Paper Boat Chilli Guava Paper Boat Lychee Fruit Drink with Nata De Coco Jell... Paper Boat Na Ta Lychee Ready-To-Serve Fruit Beverag... Paper Boat Swing Juicier Drink Lush Lychee Paper Boat Swing Juicier Drink Mixed Fruit Medley Paper Boat Swing Juicier Drink Pulpy Orange Paper Boat Swing Zesty Pomegranate Juice, Enriched w... Real Activ Mixed Fruit Juice Real Fruit Power Apple Tropicana Apple Delight Tropicana Litchi Delight

Method and limits

  • Prevalence counts published products whose decoded ingredient list matches this substance or one of its label synonyms, using the same matching the score itself uses. It describes our catalogue of 893 products, not the Indian market as a whole.
  • Presence is not dose. An ingredient list gives order, not quantity, unless the pack declares a percentage. Nothing here estimates how much of this substance any product contains.
  • A classification is not a verdict on a product. An agency classifies a substance under defined conditions of exposure; whether that matters in a given food or cosmetic depends on route, concentration and use.
  • No regulatory rows. This substance is not matched in our regulatory warehouse, so the concern above rests on the cited authority alone.
  • Last updated. This register entry was last changed on 28 September 2026.
  • Corrections. Every figure here is reproducible from the sources named. If something is wrong, tell us and we will correct it and say what changed.