What is the difference between apple cider and apple juice – 100% with out all the sugar type of juice that is?
I looked on a cooking site and it simply stated
How does that differ from apple juice?
This is bugging me.
Is there any difference in taste?
Ferget it, a kind chat person directed me, a little late 
to Cecil’s comments. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_048.html
If anyone cares.
< sheesh > I knew better than to NOT search first.
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Will a kind mod close this puppy before I wither from stupidity? Thank you.
The definition racinchikki and I came up with is that cider is chunky apple juice. Y’know, apple juice is all nice and clear, whereas cider has teeny little bits of apple pulp in it. 
(just squeezing in a post before the thread’s closed)
Me, I always thought cider came in bottles while apple juice came in cans…
We have orange soda, grape soda, strawberry soda, even peach soda.
Why no apple soda? Or is there one I don’t know about?
“If it’s clear and yella’, you’ve got juice there, fella! If it’s tangy and brown, you’re in cider town.”
-Ned Flanders
Or if you accept (literaly or metaphoricaly) that mankind ate once and only once of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, one can play this game where one sizes people up as to whether they’d bleed apple juice or cider if cut to their souls.
I’ve always figured techchick68 for cider- not cloyingly sweet, but with a sharp snap just this side of vinegar.
There was one in the late 70s but for the life of me I can’t recall the name of it. I actually liked it.
Oh wait, I think it was called Aspen. I could be wrong though.
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Yeah, I remember that. It was really good.
Anyway, chunky vs. strained can’t be the whole answer, because there is chunky “natural style” apple juice that doesn’t taste like cider, and there is hard cider that is strained.
HEB sells a Green Apple flavored Sugar Free Sparkling Water Beverage. It’s basically an Apple soda.
Jones Green Apple Soda (includes link to purchase it.)
Batch No. 6 Apple Soda
I think Fanta also markets an apple soda in parts of Europe and Africa.
and Asia. We have it here in Taiwan, too… (yummmm…)
there’s also another type of apple soda here, called “Apple Sidra”. Yes, spelled that way. Something to do with the Chinese version of the brand name, I think…
Well, I’ve always thought the technical difference is that apple juice is pasteurized but cider is not. I think they have begun to pasteurize apple ciders over e. coli fears, however.
Cider is usually more spicy and flavorful - apple juice tastes watered-down in comparison, to me. The only good cider I’ve had comes in the same plastic jugs that milk does (usually apple juice comes in plastic bottles.) YMMV, of course.
Damn. I just saw the link to Cecil’s column. I’ll still post this anyways.
I always assumed that “cider” was the same than the french “cidre”, in other words, apple juice fermentated, hence having an alcoholic content similar to beer.
So, what’s the english name for the alcoholic and sparkling beverage made out of apple juice? My dictionnary insists on calling it “cider”, but obviously, the cider you’re talking about isn’t the same thing…
There’s also a relatively famous ‘apple soda’ (well, fizzy apple drink) called AppleTise.
actually you can get apple soda at anyy store that sells to a hispanic community ( wel lhere around la anyways ) althouhg i forget what the hispanic word they use for it is
Now coke is selling a apple soda called mia although I think this was a seasonal thing Also slice in the early 80s had a apple flavor
I think there’s something like “pommaine” that is apple wine. However in Britain “cider” always means apple beer, same as in France. Most pubs sell it draught, and it has between 5 and 9 per cent alcohol usually. I don’t know whether cider is made differently from apple wine.
there is an apple soda. It’s called Sidral Mundet and it’s made in Mexico. Available at some Mexican groceries - not bad if you like that kind of thing.
Apple cider is made by pressing the apples in a big press through a screen (to remove seeds, stems, peels and whatnot). It’s then pasteurized and bottled. It’s pretty much straight from the apple.
Apple juice is strained a whole lot more. It’s also highly processed, with preservatives. Apple juice is also often watered down, had sugar added to it, and some coloring to make it appear to be uniform color.
Cider will also ferment, and apple juice won’t.
(I may not be 100% right, but it’s basically how it goes.)