Raspberry Juice: Taste, Ingredients, and How It Differs from Syrup

We grow the raspberries for this juice ourselves — in our garden, just like the apples. On its own, raspberry juice tastes too intense to drink by the glass, so it’s usually blended with apple, pear, or grape juice — we chose apple. The three-liter box holds 10% raspberry juice and 90% apple juice, both not-from-concentrate (NFC) juices. The taste is rich and refreshing, with a berry tartness gently balanced by the apple, and the color is raspberry in the most literal sense.

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The taste of raspberry juice: a hint of violet

You can clearly smell and taste the raspberry here — like a berry eaten right by the bush. Raspberry aroma also has a violet note: it comes from ionones, the same compounds found in violet flowers.

The juice is especially good chilled: the cold mutes the sweetness, and the raspberry comes through brighter.

Raspberries up close

Botanically, a raspberry isn’t a berry but an aggregate fruit. Each of its little “beads” is a drupelet built like a miniature cherry: a hard pit inside, juicy flesh around it, and a thin skin on the outside. The pits are tiny, but there are lots of them: 100 g of raspberries can contain more than 4,000.

A picked raspberry is hollow: it comes away from the white, cone-shaped receptacle, which stays on the bush. With blackberries it’s the other way around — the receptacle comes off together with the berry. A ripe raspberry holds on so loosely that at the slightest touch it drops into your palm by itself. The Latin name for raspberry is Rubus idaeus, “the bramble of Mount Ida”: Pliny the Elder explained long ago that no other brambles grow on Ida.

Raspberry juice, syrup, and mors: what’s the difference

Raspberry juice is pressed from the berries and drunk as is. Ours is exactly that: raspberry and apple juice, both direct-pressed.
Raspberry syrup is berries or juice cooked down with a lot of sugar. It’s very sweet and is added by the spoonful: to tea or water, to pancakes or ice cream.
Raspberry mors is berry juice diluted with water, usually with sugar or honey.

Ingredients and nutritional value

For our apple-raspberry juice, we blend 90% direct-pressed apple juice with 10% raspberry juice.

Per 100 g of juice	Amount
Energy	184.1 kJ / 44 kcal
Protein	0.6 g
Fat	0 g
Carbohydrates	10.5 g

How we make raspberry juice

We press the raspberries ourselves as they ripen: the berries are delicate and don’t keep long. The apples are our own too, and we press them separately. Then we blend the raspberry juice with the apple juice and pasteurize it before filling the boxes.

Direct-pressed raspberry juice pouring in a stream into a container

Filling a bag for a 3 L box with direct-pressed apple-raspberry juice

Raspberry lemonade, mousse, and ice pops

1. Raspberry lemonade with lime

Instead of ice, drop a handful of frozen raspberries into a glass, squeeze in a quarter of a lime, and add a few mint leaves. Pour in 100 ml of juice and the same amount of sparkling water. As the raspberries gradually thaw, the lemonade tastes more and more of berries.

2. Raspberry semolina mousse

Bring 500 ml of juice to a boil and gradually pour in 3 tablespoons of semolina while stirring. Cook over low heat for 5–7 minutes, let cool to room temperature, and then beat with a mixer for 5–10 minutes, until the mixture turns paler and fluffy. Serve with fresh berries.

3. Raspberry ice pops

Put 3–4 raspberries, fresh or frozen, into each of six 80 ml ice pop molds and fill them with juice — you’ll need about 400 ml. Insert the sticks and freeze for 6–8 hours. To release a pop easily, hold the mold under warm water for a few seconds.

Frequently asked questions about raspberry juice

Do you need to dilute raspberry juice with water?

No, it isn’t a syrup or a concentrate: the juice is ready to drink, and you simply pour it into a glass. If you do dilute it with water to taste, you get a light drink similar to mors.

How do you make raspberry juice to keep for winter?

Wash the raspberries gently — in a bowl of water, not under running water. Then mash the berries and squeeze the juice out through cheesecloth — that way it won’t contain any pits, and the berries have thousands of them. Heat the juice and pour it into jars as described for apple juice for winter. And if you add a lot of sugar, you’ll end up with syrup rather than juice.

When are raspberries harvested?

Summer raspberries, which bear fruit on last year’s canes, are picked in July. Everbearing raspberries fruit at the tips of this year’s canes — from the second half of August through October, until the frosts set in. Almost all Ukrainian raspberries that go for export are frozen, and in 2024 Ukraine became the world leader in net exports of frozen raspberries — 65,000 metric tons.

Which berry juice should I choose: raspberry, strawberry, or blackcurrant?

Raspberry is bright and slightly tart. Strawberry is softer and sweetish, with a summery aroma. Blackcurrant is dark, with an astringent berry note. All three share the same base — juice from the apples in our garden.

From the apples to the raspberries, everything in this box comes from our garden, and the tap makes it handy for a picnic or a table at the dacha.

You can order fresh-pressed apple-raspberry juice, 3 L on our website. The minimum order is two boxes, and you can mix flavors; all our juices are in the “Juices” section. We ship within 1–2 business days via Nova Poshta and Ukrposhta across Ukraine. Our article “Fresh Apple Juice: How We Make It” explains how we make our juices, and “Juice in a Bag-in-Box with a Tap” covers how to open the box and how long it keeps.
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2026-10-05 12:00:00

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