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Can I add Concentrated High Juice Fruit Juice to my compost heap?

mariewOy5A9EYmariewOy5A9EY Posts: 2
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I have an unopened bottle of Asda 50% fruit high juice mango and passion fruit juice, that is well past it's best before date. It is the type of juice that water is added to make a drink. As well as apple, mango & passion fruit juices and water, it also contains Malic Acid, Acidity regulator Sodium Citrates, preservatives Potassium Sorbate & Sodium Metabisulphite, sweeteners Acesulfame K & Sucralose, stabiliser Carboxy Methyl Cellulose, antioxidant Ascorbic Acid and Colour Carotenes.  I don't wont to waste the juice by pouring it down the drain. Is it safe to add this product to my compost heap?
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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Depending on how far past a best before date, I'd probably drink it. Well, hubby would,I don't drink squash. Best before isn't use by,but I wouldn't put it on the compost. It would be very sticky, could attract wasps.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I would drink it too.  :)
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    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'd certainly drink it. 
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I might drink it … but I certainly wouldn’t hesitate to put it on the compost heap. Why would you worry about attracting wasps when apple cores and other bits and bobs of fruit go on the heap … not to mention the fruit skins from making wines and jellies. 
    If ‘recycled beer and cider’ can go on the compost why not fruit juice?

    😊 



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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I suppose if you're worried, you could dilute it massively and then pour it on the compost heap. 
    Wasps wouldn't bother me either - I've got 2 nests just now, both near the compost bin. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited August 2021
    I think you are significantly overthinking this. Bung it on, it will do no harm but precious little good. However if it was Waitrose fruit juice rather than Asda …. My attitude would be I could not be bothered to walk 50 metres from the kitchen to the compost heap so I’d just pour it down the drain.

    In Cotto Towers we’re very diligent about observing use by and best before dates. I was once laid low by food poisoning in Amsterdam and I have no wish to experience that again.
    Rutland, England
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    My record is a yogurt 64 days past the sell by date and a colman's peppercorn sauce mix which was about 4 years past its date.
    I ignore them all.

    Devon.
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    High Juice is full of sugar. It’ll be fine to drink even after the Best Before. 

    Make some ice lollies or cubes with it. 
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    There are Best Before dates on everything, even stuff which never goes off - honey, for instance.  I guess the colour of your high juice squash might well have changed, but I'd certainly drink it.  Hubby has just finished the bottle of apple & elderflower high juice squash we brought with us from England in 2019 - use by June 2020, and open for more than a year.  He says it tasted perfectly normal...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    I tend to go on how stuff looks and smells when deciding whether to consume it or not. I wouldn't worry about pouring your juice into the compost either.
    East Lancs
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