Cocktails with Orange juice
Orange juice is the fresh-pressed or reconstituted juice of sweet oranges (Citrus sinensis).
Substitutes for Orange juice
Any sweet citrus fills the volume; what changes is how much acid comes with it, and orange brings very little to begin with. Expect to add lemon rather than to find a match, and remember that a juice pressed hours ago has already lost the aroma the drink was using.
Often confused with
Orange juice from concentrate
Reduced and reconstituted, so the volatile aroma that boiled off is exactly the part a drink was using, and sweeter, flatter and stable.
Blood orange juice
Blood orange is the same species carrying anthocyanin pigment: less acidic, faintly berried, and it browns within hours. It substitutes for the flavor and changes the look completely.
Storage
Fresh juice keeps a day refrigerated, stirred back together before each pour. Whole oranges keep far longer than a bar will ever need — navel fruit shows no rot for around three months at 5 °C. Juice made from concentrate keeps to its date and never tasted of fresh oranges in the first place.
