Cocktails with Blood orange juice
Blood orange juice is the juice pressed from the blood orange, a pigmented variety group of the sweet orange whose flesh runs red to crimson.
Taste profile
A berry-like top note lifts the aroma; the body is sweet with a moderate citrus acidity and only faint bitterness.
How it's used
Shaken into the build as a souring and colouring element, it lends both juice sweetness and a distinctive red hue; dose it as a bulk measure where colour is wanted, since the pigment is the trait no other orange supplies.
Substitutes for Blood orange juice
Ordinary orange juice matches its sweetness and acidity closely (top up with a little syrup or lemon if needed), but cannot reproduce the red colour or berry note — when those matter, only another red-pigmented source approximates it, at the cost of flavour or a changed ingredient list.
Often confused with
Ordinary (blond) sweet orange juice
Both are pressed from Citrus × sinensis and taste broadly similar, but blood orange juice carries anthocyanin pigment that gives it a red colour and a berry-like note, while ordinary orange juice is orange-coloured and lacks that note.
