Has anyone bought a plastic bottle of juice recently. Apple, grape, cranberrry, whatever. Sometime within the last couple of years, all (most?) bottlers have adopted a new bottling technology that completely excludes air from the container. You think maybe there’s some air hidden by the white cap. You turn the bottle over, and no air bubble floats up into the transparent bottom.
This is in contrast to the older style glass bottles, which had air (or at least some gas) in them albeit at a pressure lower than atmospheric.
How do they do this (squeeze the bottle and cap it?)? Why do they do this? Does it increase the product shelf life?
WTF? Here’s a link to Welchs showing lots of pretty juices with no AIR
For bigger pics try [url=http://www.netgrocer.com] netgrocer . There’s a real nice pic of Mott’s apple juice (and many others). Same story. Plastic bottle, no air.
Oops, that was suppossed to say:
For bigger pics try netgrocer. There’s a real nice pic of Mott’s apple juice (and many others). Same story. Plastic bottle, no air.
To re-reiterate: WTF
Whammo, this is (I think-I didn’t search) the first time we are posting together. Hello. How are you? Happy holidays. You seem to be having trouble finding some information. Allow me to assist you. Click on the netgrocer link in my previous post (the blue word “Netgrocer”). Allow your browser to open the page. Then select “juices and drinks” under the dairy case menu. This will take you to a page where there are three pics. One tang pic. Ignore it. One Mott’s apple juice pic and one OS cranberry juice pic. If you click on the text reading “info” next to either of those bottles you will be taken to a page with a fairly decent sized pic of either product. After that you can beg for my forgiveness
The air is obviously hidden by the oversized white cap or the pictures are doctored, but don’t be giving me this bullshit about there not being any AIR in the BOTTLE!!
There should be some air in those juice bottles. Imagine how hard it will be to fill a container to the brim and put the cap on without spilling your juice all over the place on a manufacturing line. There are other ways, but still a big hassle. Besides, anyone trying to open a container which is absolutely filled may inadvertently spill some of its contents as they struggle with the cap. It’s best for both the manufacturer and the consumer to have juice bottles that contain some air…
Sorry I can’t find a pic of a bottle with a transparent cap, Whammy. But the extinction of a very small bit of ignorance is just a trip to the local market away for you.
I agree with Whammo. Those photos were obviously created in a soundstage in the New Mexico desert. Look at the way the light refracts through the juice- physically impossible!
And what about the stars in the background? I don’t see any stars!
jb
I agree that it must have taken some great feat of engineering to accomplish this. That’s why I’m interested. I hope this thread generates a new national pastime; inverting bottles of juice in the supermarket. Try it yourself. There’s no air bubble.
The bottles are designed so as not to spill when opened, however. On opening, air goes into the bottle, leaving a nice 1/2-3/4 inch margin at the top with no juice. This suggests to me that the bottle are filled almost to the top, compressed slightly, and then capped.
If you keep out the air, you will slow down the ageing of your product. This is a big WAG on my part. All my OS Cranberry juice comes this way. Big bottles or small.
