Orange Juicer and Diluting EVK Juices

At the on-campus Jamba Juice, they use a giant juicing machine. One of the employees takes a huge box of oranges (maybe 100 or so) and dumps them into the machine's container. One by one, the oranges roll along a conveyor belt and land in some kind of cup.

Then an arm comes down and smashes it, releasing the juice into an external container and dropping the skin and other solids. Then the next orange rolls in. It's an automated way of juicing tons of oranges, just by pressing a button and letting electricity do the rest. What an increase in productivity!

At EVK, they have a variety of fruit juices, including orange, orange passion fruit, cranberry, and apple. When the juice runs out, some kind of dirty (cloudy) water comes out. My theory is that the machine takes concentrated juice and mixes in tap water (possibly filtered) on-the-fly.

Thus, when the concentrate runs out, it's not like *nothing* comes out of the machine. Rather, a gross kind of water is what's left, coming in from the tap but would normally be mixed with the concentrate. This is just my theory-- I don't know if it's true.