Minute Maid to discontinue iconic product after 80 years
Minute Maid ends frozen juice concentrate sales due to declining demand and changing consumer habits, with U.S. frozen beverage sales down nearly 8% last year, NielsenIQ reports.
- On Feb. 4, 2026, The Coca-Cola Company announced it will discontinue Minute Maid frozen canned juice concentrates in the U.S. and Canada by April, ending an 80-year retail run.
- Balment told CBC News, 'Only about seven per cent is from frozen concentrate,' citing shifting consumer preferences as Coca‑Cola exits the category, amid declining sales and market changes.
- Affected products include original and pulp‑free orange juice, lemonade, limeade, pink and raspberry lemonade, Fruitopia, and FiveAlive, with remaining stock sold only while supplies last at retailers and online outlets.
- Suppliers reported Sonoco's Chatham plant lost business tied to Minute Maid and laid off six employees, roughly 30 per cent of its workforce; Coca‑Cola's exit could mean frozen concentrate becomes unavailable in Canada.
- Historically, the frozen concentrate process traces to C. D. Atkins, Edwin Moore and Louis MacDowell's 1940s innovations, and Minute Maid will now focus on ready-to-drink refrigerated and shelf-stable juices as social media users mourn and resellers list discontinued items.
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Minute Maid is discontinuing its frozen juices. For this writer, there's no love lost
Minute Maid is retiring its frozen juices, which date to 1946. The news left some feeling nostalgic, but this writer is shedding no tears. Mixing the frozen concentrate was a tiresome task while she was growing up, and the orange juice also played a role in a traumatic childhood experience.
Minute Maid discontinues concentrated orange juice in latest blow to civilization
For 80 years, Minute Maid has sold orange juice and lemonade (including the pink stuff) as concentrate, with each 12-ounce can of freezing slush yielding 48 ounces of drink, give or take. Today parent company Coca-Cola said it will discontinue sales in the U.S. — Read the rest The post Minute Maid discontinues concentrated orange juice in latest blow to civilization appeared first on Boing Boing.
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