orange-juice concentrate

Thân thiện

A child pours orange-juice concentrate from a can into a pitcher.

Definition

Noun: A commercially prepared food product consisting of orange juice from which most of the water has been removed through a concentration process, resulting in a thick, syrupy liquid or frozen solid that is intended to be diluted with water before consumption.

Usage

This noun is a non-count (mass) noun. It refers to the concentrated product as a substance or commodity, not to individual units. It is typically used with determiners like "some," "any," or "the," or with quantifiers like "a can of" or "a carton of."

Examples

• For a quick breakfast, we mix orange-juice concentrate with water.
• The recipe calls for one can of thawed orange-juice concentrate.
• Orange-juice concentrate is often cheaper and has a longer shelf life than fresh juice.
• She added a spoonful of orange-juice concentrate to the marinade for a citrus flavor.

Advanced Usage

• The term can be used attributively (like an adjective) before other nouns to describe related products or contexts.
  • The orange-juice concentrate industry is a major part of Florida's economy.
  • Look in the freezer aisle for the orange-juice concentrate section.

Variants and Related Words

• Frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ): A more formal or technical term, often used in commercial and financial contexts (e.g., trading commodities).
• Juice concentrate: The general category for any fruit juice that has been concentrated.
• Reconstituted orange juice: The liquid result of diluting orange-juice concentrate with water.

Synonyms

• Concentrated orange juice
• Frozen orange juice concentrate

Antonyms

• Fresh-squeezed orange juice
• Ready-to-drink orange juice
• Not-from-concentrate orange juice (NFC)

Học thuật

Noun

1. orange juice that has been concentrated and frozen

Từ đồng nghĩa

• frozen orange juice