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Queensland apple-growing family invents new drink to use apples rejected by supermarkets
A Queensland apple-growing family believes it has made a world-first fruit drink that bottles all of the apple, minus the pips and core.
Key points:
- The Savio family created the product to add value to fruit rejected by supermarkets, which would otherwise go to juice
- They hope the drink’s long shelf life, nutritional content and convenience will encourage Australians to consume more fruit
- They hope to outgrow their pilot bottling plant and build a factory to use apples from the whole district
The Savio family, from Stanthorpe in Queensland’s Granite Belt, spent more than a million dollars and three years researching and developing how to get both the skin and the pulp into a commercially acceptable liquid form.
Neither a juice nor a nectar,…
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