It is claimed in advertisements for Ribena ( as well as on their cartons and bottles, and on their web-site ) that 95 % of all UK and Irish farmed blackcurrants are used in their drinks.

Some of the juice for Ribena is pressed by Somerset-based cider maker Thatcher's.

Lucozade ( alongside Ribena ) is currently being produced at the Royal Forest Factory in Coleford, Gloucestershire, in the Forest of Dean, United Kingdom.

There is a large factory here, originally called Carters, then Beechams, and now part of GlaxoSmithKline, the sole production facility for Ribena and Lucozade.

From 1942, almost the entire British blackcurrant crop was made into blackcurrant syrup ( or cordial ), almost all of it manufactured by Carters, and distributed to the nation's children for free without the Ribena brand name, giving rise to the lasting popularity of blackcurrant flavourings in Britain.

This has now been changed to " nearly all of British blackcurrants are used in Ribena ".

In 2001, a formulation of the diluted Ribena cordial, sold as Ribena Toothkind ( and endorsed by the British Dental Association ), was judged by the United Kingdom Advertising Standards Authority to have been advertised in a misleading manner, and claims that the drink did not encourage tooth decay should be removed from the packaging.

He once lent his distinctive voice to an advert for the blackcurrant drink Ribena, which claimed that 95 % of British blackcurrants were used in Ribena.

( This has now been changed to " Nearly all British blackcurrants are used in Ribena ".

Manufacturers of squash include Britvic ( under the Robinsons brand ), Hamdard ( under the Rooh Afza and MiWadi brands, in India and Pakistan ), Nichols ( under the Vimto brand ), GlaxoSmithKline ( under the Ribena brand ) and Coca-Cola ( under the Kia-Ora brand ).

Ribena was originally manufactured by the Bristol-based food and drink company HW Carter as a blackcurrant squash.

The blackcurrant variety was found to contain high levels of vitamin C. The drink was launched in 1936 under the name Ribena ( from the botanical name for the blackcurrant, Ribes nigrum ).

In about 1993, " Ribena Spring " was launched, a gently carbonated version in ready to drink bottle form, which was discontinued and replaced with " Ribena Spark ", another can-based carbonated edition, in the late 1990s.

The " New " label only applies to the drink bottles and cordials ; cartons of strawberry Ribena ( which do not feature the label ) have been in production for years.

In addition to the misleading representations that the Ribena range " contained four times the vitamin C of oranges " in its advertising and packaging, cartoned ready to drink Ribena falsely claimed on the label to have 7 mg of vitamin C per 100mL or 44 per cent of the recommended daily intake when it had no detectable vitamin C content.

The charges related to the popular blackcurrant fruit drink Ribena, which the company had led consumers to believe contained high levels of vitamin C. As part of a school science project, Anna Devathasan and Jenny Suo, 14-year-old schoolgirls from Pakuranga College in Auckland, discovered that ready-to-drink juice sold in 100ml containers contained very little vitamin C. Approaches by the two teens to the company did not resolve the issue, and after the matter was publicised on national consumer affairs television show Fair Go it came to the attention of the Commerce Commission.

It was ordered to run an advertising campaign to provide the facts after it admitted misleading the public about the vitamin C component in its Ribena drink.

An early brush with fame came in 1961 at the age of 8, when Portillo starred in a television advertisement for Ribena, a blackcurrant cordial drink.

There have been various incarnations of carbonated " Sparkling Ribena ", sold in cans — throughout the 1980s and early 1990s there was a can-based version simply named " Ribena ".

Development research into pure fruit syrups for the manufacture of milkshakes had been done at the Long Ashton Agriculture and Horticulture Research Station in north Somerset using a pectinase enzyme process ; Ribena was essentially invented there by Dr. Vernon Charley, a scientist at the University of Bristol in 1933.

After contacting the manufacturers of Ribena, their concerns of " intentionally misleading and quite inappropriate " claims were dismissed, and they were told the claim related only to the blackcurrant fruit, not the product.

They are considered a " healthier " choice for children because of the low sugar content, and sometimes they are fortified with a blend of vitamins or minerals, such as Ribena with vitamin C. Dentists recommend low sugar squash, as they have a lower tooth decay risk than ordinary squash or ( corrosive ) fruit juices, containing fewer of the sugars that encourage the growth of oral bacteria.

These include pictures, such as children picking fruit ( picture on Robinson's squash ) or anthropomorphic fruit ( picture on Ribena ), behind-the-label " fruity fun " such as word searches, crossword puzzles, word scrambling etc., tickets to experiences such as film tickets, football or other sport match tickets, weekend breaks, new film releases or theme park trips

A study conducted by the Australian Consumers ' Association for Choice magazine in January 2007 revealed of the Ribena Fruit Drink product.

* Berry Bish Bash ( opened 2003, originally sponsored by Ribena )

Since the court case, GlaxoSmithKline has issued a statement on its official Ribena website ;

GlaxoSmithKline claims of prompt action and being unaware of the issue appear to be in conflict with the claim of the two high school students to have contacted Ribena manufacturers with their concerns in 2004, and a television broadcast of the story nationwide on TV ONE in October 2004.

GlaxoSmithKline maintains the issue only affects Australia and New Zealand, and Ribena sold in other markets, such as the United Kingdom, contain the levels of vitamin C stated on the product label.

Ribena Spark was finally discontinued in 2011.

In June 2007, a new raspberry flavoured Ribena was released ; it was discontinued, and was relaunched in 2010.

In April 2008, Ribena released a new product with 100 % juice content.

In April 2009, Ribena introduced a strawberry flavour of their highly popular cordial beverage.

The Food Commission in the United Kingdom has criticised the sugar levels in regular Ribena, as have several newspapers and publications.

Ribena has since launched a low sugar version.

As Ribena advertising refers to " four times the vitamin C of oranges ", they were surprised to discover the levels of vitamin C were much lower at 22 mg / 100mL in the syrup compared with another product, Just Juice, at 72 mg / 100mL.

Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.

But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.

After all, it goes back to the days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons of St. Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force and violence -- the British government, that is.

British common sense is proverbial.

The present attempts of the politicians to contaminate ordinary Britons shows that this British common sense is unwilling to pull somebody else's chestnuts out of the fire by new military adventures ''.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

The fact is that the Italians, French and British know that they have no defense against nuclear bombs.

Just because Cheddi Jagan, new boss of British Guiana, was educated in the United States is no reason to think he isn't a Red.

Likewise, and equally fascinating, is the news that such unlikely synonyms as `` pratakku '', `` sweathruna '', and the tongue-twister `` nnuolapertar-it-vuh-karti-birifw- '' all originated in the same village in Bathar-on-Walli Province and are all used to express sentiments concerning British `` imperialism ''.

It is a British bomb.

`` It is a British Austin, the smallest they make ''.

Productivity of U.S. miners is twice that of the British.

The British coal industry is unprofitable, has large coal stocks it can't sell.

The second feature, `` The Price Of Silence '', is a British detective story that will talk your head off.

Songs from China and Japan were reserved exclusively for Miss Mao, who is a native of China, and those of the British Isles were sung by Mr. Fuller, who is English by birth.

A woman who undergoes artificial insemination against the wishes of her husband is the unlikely heroine of `` A Question Of Adultery '', yesterday's new British import at the Apollo.

She is just home from a sojourn in London where she has become the sweetheart of a young fellow named Ronnie ( we never do see him ) and has been subjected to a first course in thinking and appreciating, including a dose of good British socialism.

Despite a too long sustained declamatory flight, this final speech is convincing, and we see why British audiences apparently were impressed by `` Roots ''.

WBAI is on the right track: in the sound medium there has been excessive emphasis on music and news and there could and should be a place for theatre, as the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations continue to demonstrate.

Anthropology in Greece and Portugal is greatly influenced by British anthropology.

An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court or court of appeals ( American English ) or appeal court ( British English ), is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.

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