Quick-what's in apple cider?

[mum2sarah]

We're having light-up night here in my dinky little hometown, and my violin and viola students are playing a few songs. I'm bringing cookies and I had my sister pick up apple cider from the grocery store. Nowhere on the container does it list the ingredients, though :confused: It just says it's pasteurized, which got me wondering exactly what's in it. Maybe I'm just stupid, but I just thought apple cider was basically like apple juice only a little more condensed. Is there anything more to it than that? Are there any non-vegan ingredients that are commonly added? Trying to figure this out before tonight so I know whether or not to drink it.

[EricP]

I hope this helps, I found it at

http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20031117.html


"In the United States, apple cider refers to the unprocessed liquid that you get from apples. The apples are washed, cut, and ground into mash before being pressed. The resulting cider usually contains apple pulp and is dark, brown, and cloudy. The beverage is perishable and must be refrigerated. If this liquid is filtered and further processed, the resulting product is apple juice, which has a longer shelf life than cider.

In England, apple cider is an alcoholic beverage that is produced when the juice from freshly pressed apples is allowed to ferment. It's sometimes referred to as "hard cider."

Some ciders and juices have not been pasteurized and may pose a health risk. The FDA requires all unpasteurized drinks to be labeled. "

It seems that you are safe, it's most likely vegan.

Regards,

EricP

[mum2sarah]

Thanks, Eric. That's what I figured, but I've been ultra-paranoid about things lately.

[annie7]

It's "Acute Thanksgivingitus" ... the knowledge that many people are baking and cooking things to offer you a taste... and the fear of *what* may be in them!;)
We all have it!

[xmysticprincessx]

i think what freaked you out was that it was "pasteurized" because milk also goes through the same process. i think thta pasteuization is just a process to kill any bacteria and stuff like that in there. (any science people out there?) i'm kinda tired so sorry if its not completely accurate. dont worry, there's no milk or anything like that in there. (im starting to ramble, so maybe i should go to bed...)

[alexis]

yeah pasturization is the process whereby bacteria is killed...quoting my science book "Pasturization was invented by a scientist by the name of Louis Pasture(???) as a way of preserving...erm something by killing the bacteria by heat" That's the long and short of it, though the last time i had a look at the said textbook was three months ago so that explains the holes and misspelling...;) so chill, enjoy the apple cider...cheers:)

[VOW]

A brilliant scientist, he was the one who basically came up with the idea that CLEAN=GOOD. He actually observed the bacteria for rabies and anthrax, and dispelled the notion of the day that disease came from "spontaneous generation." He also figured out the scientific basis of beer making and wine fermentation. Raw milk used to be a carrier of infection, and Pasteur determined what was causing the spread of disease, and how to eliminate it. When milk is heated to 180° F (I think, anyway, just BELOW the boiling point), the germs are killed. Because of his discovery, this heating treatment is named after him, "Pasteurization."

Joseph Lister was a big fan of cleanliness, too. Doctors used to go from one surgery to the next without washing their hands. They wore a special overcoat that was covered with dried blood and worse, and THEN THEY WONDERED WHY THE PATIENTS DIED. Lister got the notion to wear clean clothes into surgery, wash hands, and even spray disinfectant in the air during surgery. (a little bit of trivia, "Listerine" mouthwash is named after Lister) During Lister's day, doctors thought it was normal for a healing wound to develop pus.

Ignaz Semmelweis was a doctor who specialized in treating women. He noticed that the women who delivered in the part of the hospital where the doctors worked frequently died of childbed fever. That's a nasty infection of the uterus after the baby is born. The other part of the hospital, where midwives delivered babies, didn't have the same death rate.

Simply by having the doctors wash their hands between deliveries, the maternal death rate dropped dramatically!


Just some fascinating bits of history!




~VOW

[alexis]

Whoa VOW, your history is good...as for listerine and Lister, i really don't want to know, this girl i used to know in school tried to kill of her dad's homicidal arowana by pouring listerine into it's tank, the fish only got more homicidal, progressing from trying to eat her fingers to trying to eat her altogether....they should warn kids with that ya know...try to kill the fish and it'll try to eat you...ok...i'll shut up now, i'm sick

[VOW]

Listerine is about 25% alcohol, making it 50 proof....if your classmate poured it into the fishtank, the errant fish probably got bombed out of his little fishie mind!!!




~VOW

[annie7]

Does that mean the fish got tanked?:D

[tricia]

Definately Tanked.... lol....

[Erin Pavlina]

And maybe a little sloshed? :D

[annie7]

Our jokes are all wet! (but we posted them swimmingly!):p

[alexis]

Wow, 'wet' jokes and 'tanked' fish....we sure have very weird jokes...sad thing is that fish finally died when she poured a box of salt into it's tank, she said she was sick of it looking at her like she was food....i never looked at real dried salted fish the same way again....:mad:

[annie7]

A human tired of being looked at as food..... what a switch!
If every body had that feeling once, maybe they'd understand the ethics of not killing for food. I wouldn't want to be someone's dinner, either!
And do you know why shrimp don't want to be someone's dinner? Because they're all so shellfish. Ok, that was just lame....

[mum2sarah]

annie, that's a good point!

maybe it's the humans that should be considered shellfish, then, huh?