Britain selling record number of fruit extracts

Sales of juices reached an all-time high of more than £65m in 2013, according to analysis by the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs of HM Revenue & Customs figures.

The new figures, released today, show how apple and orange juice are Britain's biggest international sellers with a combined £35m in sales. And juices produced in Britain, some of which are from home-grown fruit and others from imports, are now shipped to 96 countries including Spain, Italy, Brazil and the United States.

The demand for British-produced fruit and vegetable drinks has soared by almost 40 per cent since 2010, up from £46m to £65m, and making the UK the fourth biggest juice exporter in the European Union. The countries to which Britain started exporting juices for the first time in 2013 include the Cayman Islands, Croatia, Grenada, Guyana, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Seychelles.

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