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Cranberry juice: what's actually in it?

Cranberry juice is the category where the front of the pack is least trustworthy. “100% juice” on a cranberry bottle usually does not mean 100% cranberry — it means 100% juice of some fruits, with cranberry often a minority. And a bottle that says “cranberry juice drink” or “cocktail” is, by design, mostly water plus sugar. This page separates the three things shoppers actually buy:

• Pure / 100% cranberry juice — cranberry only (rare, very tart, usually sold as a concentrate-style bottle to dilute).
• 100% juice blends labelled “cranberry” — no added sugar, but cranberry mixed with grape, apple and pear juice to make it drinkable.
• Cranberry juice drink / cocktail — water first, a minority of cranberry juice, plus sugar (or sweeteners in light/zero versions).

This page does not give a health score and makes no urinary-tract or other medical claim. Where a brand makes such a claim, it is quoted as the brand's claim, not adopted by this page.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• The sugar flag is the whole story. Every cranberry juice drink/cocktail checked adds sugar (or, in light/zero versions, sucralose, acesulfame potassium or stevia). The only no-added-sugar options are the pure cranberry bottle and the 100% juice blends — and the blends still contain a lot of natural fruit sugar from grape/apple/pear juice.
• “100% juice, cranberry” is a blend, not pure cranberry. Ocean Spray's 100% Juice Cranberry lists cranberry juice first but then grape, apple and pear juice — cranberry is one of four juices, not the whole bottle.
• A Singapore-specific warning: Ripe's “100% Fruit Juice — Cranberry” lists high fructose corn syrup second. The name says 100% fruit juice; the FairPrice ingredient list says reconstituted cranberry juice, then high fructose corn syrup, then vitamin C and sodium benzoate. Name and list disagree — trust the list.
• Cranberry percentage varies enormously: 27% in the UK Cranberry Classic, 19% in Folkington's Little Farms bottle, 15% total fruit juice (7% cranberry) in the EU Cran-Raspberry drink, and an unspecified minority in the standard US cocktail. If cranberry content matters to you, the percentage — where printed — is the number to compare, not the word “cranberry” on the front.
• Re-audit 5 Nov 2026 — the pure-cranberry gap is now partly closed. Rabenhorst Pure Cranberry Juice is sold in Singapore (FairPrice, 750 ml, single ingredient: cranberry juice) and is now panelled as a verified SG list. Lakewood Organic Pure Cranberry (Shopee SG) and Ocean Spray Pure Unsweetened (Desertcart SG) are panelled as flagged, pending SG pack checks, and a Dynamic Health concentrate is panelled separately. But Biona, 21st Century, PomeFresh and the GN pomegranate-cranberry bottle remain seen-but-not-verified because no verbatim list could be retrieved for them — see the list below.
• Most Ocean Spray panels below are flagged as overseas listings. Ocean Spray is sold in Singapore, but no FairPrice/Cold Storage ingredient section for a current SG Ocean Spray pack was retrieved in this pass, so those panels quote US/UK/EU listings and are marked as such. The SG pack must be checked before publish — do not present them as verified Singapore pack lists.
• Little Farms is where the two most distinctive Singapore finds sit: Folkington Cranberry (19% cranberry, sweetened with apple and grape syrup while claiming “no added sugar”) and Complete Health 100% Organic Cranberry Juice (cranberry only, undiluted, not from concentrate).

At a glance

Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Pure cranberry — the undiluted bottle

Pure cranberry concentrate — dilute before drinking

This is a concentrate, not a ready-to-drink bottle. It is filed separately so its ingredient list is not compared litre-for-litre with the ready-to-drink rows above.

100% juice blends labelled “cranberry” — no added sugar, but not pure cranberry

Cranberry juice drink / cocktail — water first, sugar added (Singapore-verified exception first)

Light / zero-sugar cranberry drinks — no sugar, but sweeteners instead

These swap sugar for high-intensity sweeteners. They are not “unsweetened” in the plain sense — they are sweetened without sugar. Both panels below are US listings, flagged as such.

Little Farms — the cranberry drink that complicates “no added sugar”

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked:

• Ocean Spray SG packs (FairPrice / Cold Storage / Giant / Sheng Siong) — Ocean Spray cranberry juice drink is listed at FairPrice Singapore and described in secondary coverage as “contains 27% fruit juice”, but no current SG ingredient section was retrieved in this pass. All Ocean Spray panels above are therefore flagged overseas listings, not SG pack lists.
• Biona Organic Cranberry Juice 750 ml (FairPrice SG) — FairPrice lists it as “Biona Organic Cranberry Juice 750 ML • Organic”, but Biona sells two different 750 ml SKUs with very different lists: “Pure Juice” (100% organic pure cranberry juice, not from concentrate) and “Fruit Drink” (spring water, cranberry juice 30%, grape juice concentrate 14%). The SG pack was not checked, so neither list is panelled as the SG list.
• F&N Fruit Tree Fresh No Sugar Added Juice — Cranberry & Pomegranate (946 ml, FairPrice SG) — listed at FairPrice; no verbatim ingredient list retrieved. A Malaysian listing names a similar product “Fruit Tree 100% No Sugar Added Cranberry, Pomegranate and Apple 1L” — that Malaysian list is not borrowed here.
• Marigold Peel Fresh Cranberry & Apple Juice Drink — No Sugar Added (1 L, Cold Storage) — listed at Cold Storage; no verbatim ingredient list retrieved.
• Ceres 100% Juice Blend Packet Drink — Cranberry and Kiwi (1 L, FairPrice SG) — listed at FairPrice; no verbatim ingredient list retrieved.
• 21st Century Cranberry Juice Pure 500 ml / 1 L (SG) — the Singapore own site (21stcentury.sg) and Shopee SG Official Store describe it as “100% pure unsweetened CRANBERRY JUICE from Florida”, but no verbatim ingredient list was published on the page retrieved. Description is not a list — seen only. Also sold via Woods Pharmacy SG.
• PomeFresh 100% Pure Organic Cranberry Juice 1000 ml (SG) — the Singapore own site (pomefresh.com) and Shopee SG (PomeFresh Organic) claim “100% Pure and Organic, USDA Organic, Halal, Cold-pressed, Never From Concentrate, No added sugar, No preservatives”, but no verbatim ingredient list was retrieved. Seen only.
• GN 100% Pure Organic Pomegranate Cranberry 750 ml (Scoop Wholefoods SG) / PomeFresh Pomegranate Cranberry Fusion — Scoop Wholefoods SG juice collection lists the GN pomegranate-cranberry bottle; PomeFresh sells a “Pomegranate Cranberry Fusion” (pomegranate + cranberry, no water/sugar added). No verbatim ingredient list was retrieved for either, and the two names are not merged into one row without verification.
• R.W. Knudsen Just Cranberry 100% Juice and Organic Cranberry Pomegranate 100% Juice — no Singapore-facing listing was found for either in this pass (searched Shopee SG and SG channels). US lists exist (Just Cranberry: filtered water to reconstitute, cranberry juice concentrate; Organic Cranberry Pomegranate: filtered water, organic apple/cranberry/pomegranate juice concentrates, organic natural flavor) but are not panelled as SG products.
• Tropicana Cranberry drinks — no SG-facing verbatim ingredient list was verified in this pass.
• Marigold / Yeo's / F&N cranberry variants, house-brand cranberry drinks — the Marigold and F&N items found in this re-audit are now panelled or listed above (Marigold PowerJuice Pomegranate Cranberry, Marigold Powerberries, F&N Fruit Tree Cranberry & Pomegranate seen-only). No other cranberry product from these brands with a verifiable list was found in the supermarket channels checked in this pass.
• Ocean Spray Cranberry Raspberry Sparkling (US listing) — sparkling water, grape juice, cane or beet sugar, cranberry juice, raspberry juice, natural flavors, fumaric/citric/ascorbic acids, carrot extract — found as a US listing only; not panelled because no SG listing was found and the sparkling variant would need its own SG verification.
• Giant / Sheng Siong / Donki / Mustafa / Meidi-Ya / Le Petit Depot / RedMart cranberry ranges — no additional cranberry juice brands with verifiable lists were found from those channels in this pass; an in-store check would be needed to close this gap. SuperNature, Brown Rice Paradise and Four Seasons Organic Market: no cranberry juice product was found via online search in this pass — catalogue/in-store check still outstanding, recorded as a gap, not as “checked and absent”. iHerb SG: not yet checked in detail for cranberry — residual gap.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All rows below are per 100 ml, as sold. Across these rows, sugars run from 0 g (Ocean Spray Zero Sugar) to 11.67 g (Ocean Spray 100% Juice — Cranberry), and sodium from about 4 mg (Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail) to 17 mg (Ocean Spray Diet). No official Singapore Nutri-Grade letter was found printed on any pack/listing in this pass, so none is quoted for any drink on this page. Note that '100% juice' rows are blends (cranberry plus grape/apple/pear juice in the ingredient list), so their sugars are total sugars from all the juices, not cranberry-only sugars — and not added sugars.

Salt = sodium × 2.5. Sodium is shown as printed; the salt equivalent is in brackets. Sodium is never presented as salt. Figures below are total sugars as printed on Singapore-style packs, not added sugars — the ingredient list on this page remains the evidence for added sugar versus naturally occurring sugars. No Nutri-Grade letter is quoted unless it was found printed on the pack or listing; none is assigned here, and no health score or verdict is given.

— means not stated in the source found for that row, not zero. Per-serving rows are quoted exactly as printed and are not converted to per 100 g/ml. Where sources conflict, the conflict is flagged in the notes below and in the research notes, not silently resolved.

Conflicts and flags. Ocean Spray Cocktail: other US listings give sugars 10.51 g and 11.67 g per 100 ml, versus 10.4 g in the row above — the range is flagged, not averaged. Ocean Spray 100% Juice: another listing gives sugars 9.58 g and another gives 9.83 g per 100 ml for differently-sized 100% cranberry listings; the row above uses the 11.67 g listing that matches the panelled ingredient list (cranberry/grape/apple/pear). Ocean Spray Pink: an Open Food Facts concentrate listing giving sugars 92.59 g per 100 ml is a concentrate basis and is not used here. Ocean Spray Pure Unsweetened: the US per-serving panel (240 ml: 60 kcal, sugars 9 g, sodium 15 mg) implies 25 kcal and 3.75 g sugars per 100 ml (consistent with the row above) but 6.25 mg sodium per 100 ml, conflicting with the Open Food Facts figure of 2.12 mg — flagged, not averaged. Lakewood: the per-serving row above is quoted exactly as printed and not converted; an Open Food Facts per-100 ml row for this product (12 kcal, sugars 0 g) is implausible against the per-serving panel and is not used. All sugars are total sugars as printed; Diet/Zero rows contain sweeteners per their ingredient lists, not sugar. No Nutri-Grade letter is quoted: none was found printed in this pass.

Seen but not verified (nutrition) — do not use figures for these until checked from the pack:

• Complete Health Products 100% Organic Juice — Cranberry (Little Farms) — no nutrition panel verified.
• Dynamic Health Pure Cranberry 100% Juice Concentrate — conflicting concentrate panels found (one gives sugars 15 g per 100 ml, another 70 g per 100 ml); no figure is used until the SG pack panel is checked.
• Ripe 100% Fruit Juice — Cranberry — no nutrition panel verified; do not borrow any Ocean Spray row.
• Ocean Spray Cranberry Classic Juice Drink (UK listing) — no panel verified for this exact variant; a flavoured-juice-drink figure (sugars 8.33 g) was found but is not borrowed for the Classic name.
• Ocean Spray Cranberry and Raspberry Flavoured Juice Drink (EU listing) — no nutrition panel verified.
• Ocean Spray Cranberry Pineapple Juice Drink (US listing) — no nutrition panel verified.
• Folkington Juice — Cranberry (Little Farms) — no nutrition panel verified.

How to read a cranberry label — the jargon, in plain English

Juice drink / cocktail

A legal-style category name for a drink that is mostly water with a minority of juice plus sweetener. If the front says “juice drink” or “cocktail”, expect water first and sugar (or sweeteners) in the list.

100% juice

Means 100% of the contents are juice — not 100% cranberry. A “100% juice, cranberry” bottle can be mostly grape/apple/pear juice. Check the juice breakdown, not just the “100%”.

From concentrate / not from concentrate / reconstituted

“From concentrate” means juice was evaporated for shipping and water added back. “Reconstituted” means the same thing. “Not from concentrate” means the juice was packed as pressed. Neither term tells you how much cranberry is in the bottle.

High fructose corn syrup (HFCS)

A liquid sweetener made from corn starch, high in fructose. If it appears second on the list (as in Ripe), it is a major ingredient, not a trace sweetener.

Fruit syrups (apple and grape syrup)

Concentrated fruit sugars used to sweeten a drink while allowing a “naturally sweetened” claim. They still sweeten the product; this page lists them as sweetening ingredients and shows the brand's claim alongside, rather than settling the definitional argument.

Sucralose, acesulfame potassium (acesulfame-K), steviol glycosides (stevia)

High-intensity sweeteners used in light/zero versions instead of sugar. They provide sweetness with little or no sugar — but a drink that lists them is sweetened, not unsweetened.

Pectin, gum arabic, ester gum

Thickeners/stabilisers: pectin gives body, gum arabic and ester gum keep flavour oils mixed into the drink. Their presence marks a formulated juice drink, not pressed juice.

Vegetable concentrate for color / carrot from concentrate

Colouring from vegetable/fruit concentrates, used to keep the red colour stable. Different from synthetic colours such as Red 40, which appears in the Diet version above.

Sodium benzoate

A preservative. Its presence (Ripe) marks a shelf-stable formulated drink, unlike the pure cranberry bottle, which relies on acidity and refrigeration directions.

What this page is not

• Not a health score, and not medical advice. No urinary-tract or other health claim is made or endorsed here; brand claims are quoted as the brands' claims.
• Not a taste test, and not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; ingredients change less often, but still change.
• Not complete. The Singapore pack lists for Ocean Spray — the most widely sold cranberry brand in Singapore supermarkets — are the biggest gap on this page, and they are flagged rather than filled in from overseas listings.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: NTUC FairPrice product page (ingredient section for Ripe Cranberry); Little Farms product pages (Folkington Cranberry, Complete Health 100% Organic Cranberry); Open Food Facts listings for Ocean Spray US/UK/EU variants, cross-checked across multiple listings of the same product where they exist. Re-audit 5 Nov 2026 added: FairPrice SG ingredient section for Rabenhorst Pure Cranberry Juice and the Nutrimax SG distributor page; Shopee SG listings for Lakewood Organic Pure Cranberry; Desertcart SG and ShopRite for Ocean Spray Pure Unsweetened; PerfumeStore SG for Dynamic Health Pure Cranberry Concentrate; Open Food Facts SG-barcode listings for Marigold Peel Fresh PowerJuice Pomegranate Cranberry and Powerberries; FairPrice SG listings for Biona Organic Cranberry Juice, F&N Fruit Tree Cranberry & Pomegranate and Ceres Cranberry and Kiwi (seen only — no verbatim lists retrieved); Cold Storage listing for Marigold Cranberry & Apple (seen only); 21st Century SG and PomeFresh SG own sites and Shopee SG stores (seen only); Scoop Wholefoods SG juice collection (GN Pomegranate Cranberry, seen only). Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Where a full SG pack list could not be verified — Ocean Spray SG packs — the page says so instead of presenting an overseas list as the Singapore list. Open Food Facts is a community database: its listings are useful for cross-checking, but the pack and the retailer's ingredient section take precedence if they disagree.