Ocean Spray White Cran Strawberry Juice Drink Recipe
A copy of Ocean Spray's White Cran-Strawberry: white cranberry juice mixed with strained fresh strawberry juice. About 105 calories a glass.
- Total
- 1 hr 10 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories (est.)
- 105
Ocean Spray's White Cran-Strawberry is a juice drink that blends white cranberry juice with strawberry juice, at 100 calories a serving. At home, blend eight ounces of strawberries with half a cup of water, strain out the seeds and stir the pink juice into three cups of white cranberry juice with a squeeze of lime. It makes about four and a half cups.
What white cranberry strawberry juice is
Ocean Spray's product page describes a blend of white cranberry and strawberry juices, made with white cranberry juice and strawberry juice concentrate and no high fructose corn syrup, with 100 calories and the full daily value of vitamin C in a serving. It comes in a 64-ounce bottle.
White cranberries are not a different fruit. Cranberries are usually harvested when they have turned deep red, but they can be harvested earlier, while still white, and that is how white cranberry juice is made, as Wikipedia explains.
A glass of the homemade version, a quarter of the batch, comes to about 105 calories by USDA figures; that glass is 9 ounces, a little more than the bottle's serving. MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Ocean Spray.
Recipe
White Cranberry Strawberry Juice
A homemade version of Ocean Spray's White Cran-Strawberry juice drink — white cranberry juice mixed with strained fresh strawberry juice. About 4 1/2 cups, four servings.
- Prep
- 10 min
- Total
- 1 hr 10 min
- Serves
- 4
- Cuisine
- American
Ingredients
- 8 ounces strawberries, hulled
- 1/2 cup cold water
- 3 cups white cranberry juice
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
Instructions
- Blend the strawberries with the water for 30 seconds, until smooth.
- Pour the purée through a fine sieve into a jug, pressing with a spoon, and discard the seeds and pulp.
- Add the white cranberry juice and the lime juice and stir.
- Refrigerate for 1 hour and stir again before pouring.
Nutrition
- Calories:
- 105
Calculated from the ingredient quantities above using the USDA FoodData Central database, then divided by the number of servings. It is an estimate and will vary with the exact products you use.
Which white cranberry juice
Check the label of the white cranberry juice. If sugar is listed, as it is on a juice drink, the recipe needs none of its own.
- With unsweetened white cranberry juice, stir in 3 to 4 tablespoons of sugar until dissolved.
- With red cranberry juice, the drink is red and sharper. It is a cranberry strawberry juice, without the white.
Straining the strawberries
Blended strawberries are thick with seeds and pulp. Strained, they give about a cup of clear pink juice. Unstrained, the drink is cloudy and separates in the jug.
Frozen strawberries work once thawed. Their juice is darker, and the drink comes out a deeper pink.
As a mixer, a spritzer and ice pops
Ocean Spray suggests the drink as a cocktail mixer and for ice pops, on the same product page. At home:
- Spritzer: half juice, half sparkling water, over ice.
- Ice pops: pour the juice into moulds and freeze for 6 hours.
- With vodka: 4 ounces of juice to 1 1/2 ounces of vodka, over ice, with a lime wedge.
Another strawberry drink with vodka on this site is the Cîroc strawberry lemonade.
Three days in the refrigerator
Fresh strawberry juice does not keep like the bottle. Use the drink within 3 days, and stir it before pouring.
For strawberry on top of an iced coffee there is the strawberry cold foam. For a strawberry drink with protein, see the Chobani yogurt drink.
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