Thermally Processed Fruits Juices (Canned, Bottled, Flexible And/Or Aseptically Packed) means unfermented but fermentable product, pulpy, turbid or clear, intended for direct consumption obtained by a mechanical process from sound, ripe fruit or the flesh thereof and processed by heat, in an appropriate manner, before or after being sealed in a container, so as to prevent spoilage. The juice may have been concentrated and later reconstituted with water suitable for the purpose of maintaining the essential composition and quality factors of the juice. It may contain salt. One or more of the nutritive sweeteners may be added in amounts not exceeding 50 g/kg but not exceeding 200g/kg in very acidic fruits except in case of Apple Juice, Orange Juice (reconstituted from concentrate), Grape Juice, Pineapple Juice (reconstituted from concentrate). The product is not required to be called sweetened juice till the added nutritive sweeteners are not in excess of 15g/kg.
The product may contain food additives permitted in these Regulations and Appendices. The product shall conform to the microbiological requirements given in Appendix B.
The product shall meet the following requirements:—

	TSS Min( %)	Acidity expressed as Citric Acid Max.(%)
Apple Juice	10	3.5 (as malic acid)
Orange Juice
Freshly expressed	10	3.5
Reconstituted from concentrate	10	3.5
Grape Fruit Juice	9
Lemon juice	6	4.0(minimum)
Lime juice		5.0(minimum)
Grape Juice
Freshly expressed	15	3.5
Reconstituted from concentrate	15	3.5
Pineapple Juice
Freshly expressed	10	3.5
Reconstituted from concentrate	10	3.5
Black Currant	11	3.5
Mango, Guava or any other pulp fruit	15	3.5P
Other fruit juices of single species- not very acidic	10	3.5
Other fruit juices of single species- very acidic	10	3.5
Other fruit juices of single species or combination thereof - not very acidic	10	3.5
Other fruit juices of single species or combination thereof - very acidic	10	3.5

The container shall be well filled with the product and shall occupy not less than 90.0 percent of the water capacity of the container, when packed in the rigid containers. The water capacity of the container is the volume of distilled water at 20ºC which the sealed container is capable of holding when completely filled.