THE BATTLE OF THE JUICES

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In THE BATTLE OF THE SANDWICH, bacon sandwich comfortably won, with ham, pastrami, cheese, turkey and beef sandwiches coming next in the poll on sandwiches. I think it was the BLT that did it for bacon!

Now it's the turn of fruit juices to do battle. This poll is only concerned with fruit juices. It's not concerned with vegetable juices like beetroot/beet, cabbage, carrot, celery, dandelion, garlic, ginger, kale, lettuce, onion, potato, rice, seaweed, spinach, turmeric and wheatgrass soup. And the poll isn't concerned with meat juices like clam juice and gravy/jus.

Botanically speaking, nuts are flowers so nut milks are included in this poll.

In contrast to chips, cookies and even sandwiches, there's broad agreement between Americans and Brits as to what a fruit juice is. In both countries, a fruit juice can only be sold as fruit juice if it is 100% fruit juice - a fruit juice cannot be watered down or have sugar added. However, in Britain a fruit juice can be sold as such if it's made from a fruit concentrate.

To make the poll manageable, fruit juices made up of a combination of fruits (eg apple and blackberry juice, mango and passionfruit juice, mixed berry juice, orange and pomegranate juice, tropical juice) are excluded.

The biggest fruit juice consumers in the world are New Zealanders and, perhaps slightly surprisingly, Colombians.

I like nearly all fruit juices I've drunk. But my most favourite fruit juices are bilberry juice, blackberry juice, blackcurrant, grapefruit juice, guava juice, mango juice, orange juice (only freshly-squeezed with the bits in) and papaya juice, with tomato juice being the best fruit juice to drink. A tomato juice served with a ice and a big splash of Worcestershire sauce works wonders on a hot summer's day - no vodka is needed!

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My least favourite fruit juices are apple juice, elderberry juice, pomegranate juice, prune juice and redcurrant juice, with cranberry juice being the worst fruit juice to drink. I find cranberry juice too astringent for my palate.

What are your most and least favourite fruit juices?
Do you regularly make your own fruit juices from scratch?

I've never made my own fruit juice. I let other people make them!

Below is a poll where you can anonymously select your most favourite fruit juice. Unfortunately only one pick is allowed in the poll.

All fruits can be juiced, and because a poll on this site can only have a maximum of 20 answer options, there was unfortunately no room as poll options for: acai berry juice, acerola juice, ackee juice, almond milk, apricot juice, aronia berry juice, aubergine/eggplant juice, avocado juice, banana juice, baobab juice, barberry juice, bilberry juice, blackberry juice, boysenberry juice, breadfruit juice, bristle berry juice, buffaloberry/bulberry juice, cape gooseberry juice, cashew juice/milk, Ceylon/Indian gooseberry juice, Chinese bramble berry juice, chokeberry juice, clementine juice, cloudberry juice, coconut milk/water, conkerberry juice, cupuaçu juice, date juice, Davidson's plum juice, dewberry juice, ditakh juice, dragonfruit juice, elderberry juice, emu berry juice, fig juice, goji berry/wolfberry juice, gooseberry juice, haskap berry/honeyberry juice, haw/hawberry/hawthorn berry juice, hazelnut milk, huckleberry juice, juneberry/serviceberry juice, juniper berry juice, kaba juice, Kakadu plum juice, kiwifruit/Chinese gooseberry juice, Korean raspberry juice, kumquat juice, lime juice, lingonberry juice, loganberry juice, lychee juice, magnolia berry juice, Malabar berry juice, melon juice, midgen berry juice, mulberry juice, myrtle berry juice, palm fruit juice, peach juice, peanut milk, pear juice, pecan milk, persimmon juice, pistachio milk, plum juice (including damson and prune juice), prickly pear juice, pumpkin juice, quince juice, rhubarb juice, rose hip juice, rowanberry juice, Salal berry juice, salmonberry juice, sea buckthorn juice, sloe berry/blackthorn juice, starfruit juice, sweetcorn/corn/maize juice, tamarind juice, tangerine juice, tayberry juice, thimbleberry juice, ube/purple yam juice, ugli fruit juice, walnut milk, whitebeam berry juice, white currant juice, wintergreen/teaberry juice, youngberry juice and yuzu juice.

But there is always the 'other' option for those fruit juices not listed in the poll. Hopefully I've covered all the popular fruit juices as poll options.

I think orange juice will win, but apple juice, blueberry juice, cherry juice, mango juice and pineapple juice may also do well in the poll.

Please see the first comment below to see what has won each battle of the food and drinks so far.

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