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Fruit nectar (14.1.3.1)

Description:
Fruit nectar is the unfermented but fermentable product obtained by adding water with or without the addition of sugar, honey, syrups, and/or sweeteners to fruit juice, concentrated fruit juice, fruit purees or concentrated fruit purees, or a mixture of those products. Aromatic substances, volatile flavour components, pulp and cells, all of which must have been recovered from the same kind of fruit and obtained by suitable physical means, may be added. Products may be based on a single fruit or on fruit blends.1 Examples include: pear nectar and peach nectar.

This page provides information on the food additive provisions that are acceptable for use in foods conforming to the food category.

This food category is listed in the Annex to Table 3. Unless specifically indicated below, food additive provisions implied by Table 3 do not automatically apply to this category.

GSFA Provisions for Food Category 14.1.3.1
INS No. Food Additive or Group Max Level Notes Defined In
950 Acesulfame potassium 350 mg/kg 14.1.3.1
969 Advantame 6 mg/kg 14.1.3.1
300 Ascorbic acid, L- GMP 14.1.3.1
951 Aspartame 600 mg/kg 14.1.3.1
962 Aspartame-acesulfame salt 350 mg/kg 14.1.3.1
BENZOATES 1,000 mg/kg 14.1.3.1
CYCLAMATES 400 mg/kg 14.1.3.1
302 Calcium ascorbate GMP 14.1.3.1
290 Carbon dioxide GMP 14.1.3.1
330 Citric acid 5,000 mg/kg 14.1.3.1
242 Dimethyl dicarbonate 250 mg/kg 14.1.3
296 Malic acid, DL- GMP 14.1.3.1
961 Neotame 65 mg/kg 14.1.3.1
PHOSPHATES 1,000 mg/kg 14.1.3.1
440 Pectins GMP 14.1.3.1
SACCHARINS 80 mg/kg 14.1.3.1
SORBATES 1,000 mg/kg 14.1.3.1
STEVIOL GLYCOSIDES 200 mg/kg 14.1.3
SULFITES 50 mg/kg 14.1.3.1
301 Sodium ascorbate GMP 14.1.3.1
955 Sucralose (Trichlorogalactosucrose) 300 mg/kg 14.1.3.1
TARTRATES 4,000 mg/kg 14.1.3.1
437 Tamarind seed polysaccharide GMP 14.1.3
415 Xanthan gum GMP 14.1.3

Items in uppercase (e.g. PHOSPHATES) refer to food additive groups.


  1. General Standard for Fruit Juices and Nectars (CODEX STAN 247-2005).

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