What's the diff btwn apple juice and apple cider?

Question

What's the diff btwn apple juice and apple cider?

Answer 1

It depends on where you get it.  Traditionally, apple cider was the stuff pressed directly from the apples and included some pulp.  It was stored for the winter and often served hot with a little cinnamon and brown sugar.  Apple juice was clarified and had some water added and sometimes sugar.  Then there came the custom of storing apple cider for a long time and apple cider was sometimes fermented.  So now, depending on where you get it, apple cider may refer to the alcoholic drink of fermented apple pressings, or the hot drink of apple juice heated and mixed with brown sugar and spices, or simply the cold pressings straight from the apple with no preservatives.

Apple juice is still usually the juice of pressed apples, sieved, refined and with water and sometimes sugar added.

Answer 2

Apple juice has additives and it is watered down.  Apple cider is the pure juice from the pulp of the apple.  

Answer 3

I think juice is more sweeter, but cider is more bitter, and best served hot. Both are good, but cider is much better.

Answer 4

apple juice is refined apple cider, its strained of the pulp in cider and usually cooked down to a syrup and mixed with water