# Extracting Fruit Juice **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 27, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extracting-fruit-juice/164549 "2003-03-27T16:37:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ysmz613](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3da27b/32.png) [@ysmz613](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ysmz613)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extracting-fruit-juice/164549/1 "2003-03-27T16:37:15Z")
How is fruit juice absorbed into the walls of the fruit. Does the juice sit in the walls of the fruit waiting to be released or is it absorbed in the walls of the fruit. Are all fruits the same? Most important…do grapes and olives share a quality different from other fruits in regards to the extraction of their juice. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extracting-fruit-juice/164549/2 "2003-03-27T16:51:14Z")
> [@](#): > > How is fruit juice absorbed into the walls of the fruit. At least one of us is confused here. It sounds like you’re saying that the juice starts off outside the fruit, and then gets soaked up? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extracting-fruit-juice/164549/3 "2003-03-27T23:14:59Z")
He’s asking, “Where does the juice come from? Is it floating around loose inside the fruit, or is it embedded in the cells and cell walls of the fruit?” How it works in oranges. [http://waynesword.palomar.edu/termfr4.htm](http://waynesword.palomar.edu/termfr4.htm) > [@](#): > > Magnified longitudinal view of the endocarp of an orange (Citrus sinensis) showing several sections (carpels) filled with numerous fluid-filled “juice sacs.” The two lower sections each contain a seed which is surrounded by the fleshy sacs. The sacs (vesicles) are actually swollen (plump), specialized hairs. According to K. Esau (Anatomy of Seed Plants, 1960), the juice sacs originate as multicellular hairs in which the interior of the enlarged distal part breaks down and fills with liquid. The juice sacs constitute the fleshy, edible pulp of an orange and are the source of the sweet juice. ---
**Author:** ![ysmz613](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3da27b/32.png) [@ysmz613](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ysmz613)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extracting-fruit-juice/164549/4 "2003-03-28T01:26:54Z")
Thanks for the reply. I really need to know if the way juice is stored in grapes and olives is unique, compared to other the way juice is stored in other fruits. Thanks for your help ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extracting-fruit-juice/164549/5 "2003-03-28T15:42:43Z")
Can’t answer your question, sorry, but am devoured with curiousity to know why you wanna know that… ---
**Author:** ![Jammers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jammers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammers)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extracting-fruit-juice/164549/6 "2003-03-28T15:52:47Z")
I would imagine citrus fruits are different to olives. Oranges etc have distinct juice filled pouches, but olives tend to release juice on chewing, like apples. Umm. I don’t thinkI really know.