Each panel below is a working miniature of a site that could run at this address: navigation, hero, product screen and proof numbers, followed by a plain note on how that business would position the name. All twenty stay on screen at all times; a lane simply marks its own. The domain sits in the browser bar of every one of them, whole and unbroken, because the name is the thing being sold.
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Cocktail Is A Federal Word For Diluted
The three qualifying terms the regulation names
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102.33(a)3 terms
Read the clause
Beverage. Cocktail. Drink.
Three words the regulation
names, and all three mean
less than one hundred percent.
In the federal food labeling regulations the word cocktail does a job that has nothing to do with alcohol. It tells a reader the product has been diluted.
21 C.F.R. 102.33(a), QUOTED WHOLE · eCFR AT ITS SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 EDITION, READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
For a carbonated or noncarbonated beverage that contains less than 100 percent and more than 0 percent fruit or vegetable juice, the common or usual name shall be a descriptive name that meets the requirements of 21 C.F.R. 102.5(a) and, if the common or usual name uses the word "juice," shall include a qualifying term such as "beverage," "cocktail," or "drink" appropriate to advise the consumer that the product is less than 100 percent juice (e.g., "diluted grape juice beverage" or "grape juice drink").21 C.F.R. 102.33(a), QUOTED WHOLE, WITH THE SECTION SIGN WRITTEN OUT AND CURLY QUOTATION MARKS STRAIGHTENED.
WHAT THE THREE WORDS DOThey are offered as examples of a qualifying term, and the quality they qualify is completeness. The job of the word is to "advise the consumer that the product is less than 100 percent juice". Nothing in the sentence concerns alcohol, and nothing anywhere in the section does.QUALIFYING
THE TWO EXAMPLES THE AGENCY SUPPLIES"diluted grape juice beverage" and "grape juice drink". The section gives its own worked examples and both of them use grape.2 EXAMPLES
AND THE WORD "SUCH AS"The three are examples, not a closed list: the sentence says "a qualifying term such as". This page does not say what else would qualify, because the section does not and the question was not researched.NOT CLOSED
NOTHING ON THIS PAGE IS LEGAL ADVICE. NOTHING HERE SAYS WHAT ANY LABEL MUST CARRY, OR THAT ANY PRODUCT IS OR IS NOT WITHIN ANY PROVISION QUOTED. NOTHING HERE IS ABOUT ALCOHOL, DRINKING OR NUTRITION, AND NOTHING HERE DESCRIBES WHAT ANY STATE REQUIRES. CARD 10 SETS OUT IN FULL WHAT DOES NOT FOLLOW.WHAT THIS IS
3qualifying terms named
100the percent they fall short of
1of the three is the word cocktail
How they position itEveryone in this category assumes the word is theirs to define. Showing that a federal regulation already uses it, for something else entirely, is the whole page in one card.
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The Name Has To Be Descriptive First
What the sentence requires before it reaches the qualifying term
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102.5(a)descriptive
Read the order
A descriptive name that
meets the requirements of
another section. Then the
qualifying term.
The qualifying term is the second requirement in the sentence, not the first. The name must already be descriptive, by a standard set somewhere else in the chapter.
21 C.F.R. 102.33(a), READ AS A SEQUENCE · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
FIRST"the common or usual name shall be a descriptive name that meets the requirements of 21 C.F.R. 102.5(a)". A cross-reference, and the standard lives at the other end of it.DESCRIPTIVE
SECOND, AND ONLY IF"if the common or usual name uses the word 'juice,' shall include a qualifying term". The second requirement is conditional on the name using one particular word.CONDITIONAL
WHAT THIS PAGE DID NOT DO21 C.F.R. 102.5(a) was not read. It is named here because the quoted sentence names it, and nothing on this page describes what it requires. Card 10 lists it with the other cross-references this page left alone.NOT READ
Reading a sentence in order is not the same as applying it. This card describes the structure of one sentence and does not say that any name, product or label does or does not satisfy it.
2requirements in one sentence
102.5the section it points at
1of the two quoted here
How they position itA conditional requirement inside a sentence everyone quotes half of is exactly the kind of thing a brand's counsel checks, and the page that lays it out gets the bookmark.
03
Where The Rule Starts And Stops
The two boundaries in the first eleven words
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0 percent100 percent
Read the range
Less than one hundred
percent and more than zero.
Both ends are stated, and
both ends are excluded.
The sentence sets its own range before it does anything else. A product at either boundary falls outside this paragraph, and the section handles each end somewhere else.
21 C.F.R. 102.33(a) AND 101.30(b)(3) AND (d), COMPARED · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
THE RANGE"less than 100 percent and more than 0 percent". Both ends excluded, stated in one clause, before any requirement follows.OPEN AT BOTH ENDS
AT THE TOPA product at 100 percent is outside 102.33(a). 21 C.F.R. 101.30(b)(3) handles a 100 percent juice that also contains non-juice ingredients, and requires the declaration to be accompanied by "with added ______", the blank filled with a term such as "ingredient(s)," "preservative," or "sweetener".WITH ADDED
AND AT THE BOTTOMA product at 0 percent is outside 102.33(a) too - and that is where the other section becomes most interesting, because a rule about the percentage of juice reaches a beverage with none in it. Lane two is about exactly that.LANE TWO
2boundaries in the opening clause
0percent, the lower one
100percent, the upper one
How they position itBoundaries are what a reader actually needs, and this one is stated twice over in eleven words. Printing both ends with what happens past each is a reference, not a summary.
04
Descending Order Of Predominance
What happens when more than one juice is named
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102.33(b)by volume
Read the rule
The names of those juices
must be in descending
order of predominance
by volume.
A beverage naming more than one juice has to order them, and the ordering is by volume rather than by prominence, with one exception written into the same sentence.
21 C.F.R. 102.33(b), QUOTED · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
If the product is a diluted multiple-juice beverage or blend of single-strength juices and names, other than in the ingredient statement, more than one juice, then the names of those juices, except in the ingredient statement, must be in descending order of predominance by volume unless the name specifically shows that the juice with the represented flavor is used as a flavor (e.g., "raspberry-flavored apple and pear juice drink").21 C.F.R. 102.33(b), QUOTED WITH THE SECTION SIGN WRITTEN OUT. THE EXAMPLE IS THE AGENCY'S.
THE MEASUREBy volume. Not by cost, not by prominence on the label, not by which juice the name leads with. One criterion, stated once.BY VOLUME
THE EXCEPTION, AND ITS PRICEThe order may be broken if the name "specifically shows" the represented flavor is used as a flavor. The agency's example is "raspberry-flavored apple and pear juice drink": the exception is bought by saying so in the name.SAY SO
AND WHERE THE RULE DOES NOT REACHTwice in one sentence the Code writes "except in the ingredient statement". The ingredient statement is governed elsewhere and this page does not describe it.EXCEPT THERE
1ordering rule
1exception to it
0exceptions for prominence
How they position itAn ordering rule with its exception and the exception's price, all in one quoted sentence, is the kind of thing a label reviewer keeps open in a tab.
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A Named Juice That Is Not The Only One
The disclosure when a blend leads with one name
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102.33(c)apple blend
Read the example
Apple blend; apple juice
in a blend of two other
fruit juices. The agency
wrote that example itself.
When a label names one juice and the product contains others, the name has to say so. The regulation supplies a worked example, semicolon and all.
21 C.F.R. 102.33(c), QUOTED WHOLE · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
If a diluted multiple-juice beverage or blend of single-strength juices contains a juice that is named or implied on the label or labeling other than in the ingredient statement (represented juice), and also contains a juice other than the named or implied juice (nonrepresented juice), then the common or usual name for the product shall indicate that the represented juice is not the only juice present (e.g., "Apple blend; apple juice in a blend of two other fruit juices.")21 C.F.R. 102.33(c), QUOTED WHOLE. THE EXAMPLE, INCLUDING ITS SEMICOLON AND ITS FULL STOP, IS THE AGENCY'S OWN.
TWO TERMS DEFINED IN PASSINGrepresented juice and nonrepresented juice, each defined inside a parenthesis in the middle of the operative sentence rather than in a definitions section.2 TERMS
AND THE WORD "IMPLIED"The paragraph reaches a juice "named or implied on the label or labeling". An implication is enough to make a juice a represented juice, and the section does not define implication.OR IMPLIED
THE EXAMPLE IS A NAME, NOT A SENTENCE"Apple blend; apple juice in a blend of two other fruit juices." is offered as a common or usual name - the whole string, semicolon included. The agency's model of a product name is twelve words long.12 WORDS
2terms the paragraph defines
1worked example supplied
2other juices in it
How they position itA regulation that writes out a twelve-word product name as its own example is a gift to anybody naming a drink, and nobody has published it.
06
Or Contain No Juice
The last four words of the scope sentence
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101.30(a)no juice
Read the scope
The beverage may be
carbonated or noncarbonated,
concentrated, full-strength,
diluted, or contain no juice.
A percentage-juice rule that reaches a drink with no juice in it. The sentence lists five conditions of the product and the fifth is the absence of the thing being measured.
21 C.F.R. 101.30(a), QUOTED · eCFR AT ITS SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 EDITION, READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
This section applies to any food that purports to be a beverage that contains any fruit or vegetable juice ... The beverage may be carbonated or noncarbonated, concentrated, full-strength, diluted, or contain no juice.21 C.F.R. 101.30(a), QUOTED WITH OUR ELLIPSIS. THE SECTION HEADING READS "Percentage juice declaration for foods purporting to be beverages that contain fruit or vegetable juice."
THE OPERATIVE WORD IS PURPORTSThe section does not apply to beverages that contain juice. It applies to beverages that purport to. What is in the bottle is not what triggers the section.PURPORTS
FIVE CONDITIONS, AND THE LAST ONEcarbonated, noncarbonated, concentrated, full-strength, diluted - and then "or contain no juice". 5 states of a product, the fifth being the absence of the subject.5
AND THE SENTENCE IMMEDIATELY AFTERThe section supplies its own counter-example: a soft drink that "does not represent or suggest by its physical characteristics, name, labeling, ingredient statement, or advertising that it contains fruit or vegetable juice does not purport to contain juice". 5 things are listed there too, and the test is what the product represents.5 AGAIN
5conditions in the sentence
1of them is no juice at all
101.30the section
How they position itThe line that reaches a drink with no juice in it is the most forwardable sentence in this material, and it sits one clause from the end of a scope paragraph nobody reads.
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Three Ways To Purport
What triggers the section, read as a list
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namevignettecolor
Read all three
A name. A picture of a
fruit. Or color and flavor
that give the appearance
and taste of juice.
The trigger is not one thing. The scope sentence sets out three independent routes in, and the third does not involve the label at all.
21 C.F.R. 101.30(a), THE THREE TRIGGERS, QUOTED · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
ONE - THE NAME, OR ANY REPRESENTATION"the product's advertising, label, or labeling bears the name of, or variation on the name of, or makes any other direct or indirect representation with respect to, any fruit or vegetable juice". A name, a variation on a name, or an indirect representation.DIRECT OR INDIRECT
TWO - A PICTURE"the label or labeling bears any vignette (i.e., depiction of a fruit or vegetable) or other pictorial representation of any fruit or vegetable". The Code defines vignette in a parenthesis as it uses it.VIGNETTE
THREE - HOW IT LOOKS AND TASTES"the product contains color and flavor that gives the beverage the appearance and taste of containing a fruit or vegetable juice". Nothing on the package at all: the third trigger is in the liquid.APPEARANCE AND TASTE
Each of the three is quoted from the same sentence of 21 C.F.R. 101.30(a). This card sets out what the section says triggers it. It does not say that any product, name, picture, color or flavor does or does not trigger it, and nothing here classifies anything.
3independent triggers
1that is not on the label
0that require actual juice
How they position itThree triggers, one of which is not printed anywhere on the package, is the fact a drinks brand most needs and least expects.
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Then The Label Shall Declare Zero
The prescribed phrase for a drink with no juice
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101.30(d)zero (0)
Read the phrase
Contains zero (0) percent
(or %) juice. The Code
prescribes the words, and
the numeral in brackets.
Where the section applies and there is no juice, it does not merely require disclosure. It writes the sentence, down to the parenthesis around the digit.
21 C.F.R. 101.30(d), QUOTED · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
... then the label shall declare "contains zero (0) percent (or %) juice". Alternatively, the label may declare "Containing (or contains) no ______ juice", or "no ______ juice", or "does not contain ______ juice", the blank to be filled in with the name of the fruits or vegetables represented, suggested, or implied, but if there is a general suggestion that the product contains fruit or vegetable juice, such as the presence of fruit pulp, the blank shall be filled in with the word "fruit" or "vegetable" as applicable.21 C.F.R. 101.30(d), QUOTED WITH OUR ELLIPSIS AT THE FRONT. THE UNDERSCORE RUNS ARE THE CODE'S OWN BLANKS AND ARE SET AS PRINTED.
THE PRESCRIBED FORM"contains zero (0) percent (or %) juice". The word, the numeral in parentheses, and an alternative symbol in a second parenthesis. 1 phrase, written out by the agency.ZERO (0)
AND THREE ALTERNATIVES"Containing (or contains) no ______ juice", "no ______ juice", and "does not contain ______ juice". 3 other ways, each with a blank the agency tells you how to fill.3 MORE
AND WHAT DECIDES THE BLANKNormally the name of the fruit or vegetable represented. But where there is "a general suggestion that the product contains fruit or vegetable juice, such as the presence of fruit pulp", the blank takes the general word instead. Pulp changes what the sentence says.PULP
1prescribed phrase
3alternative phrasings offered
0the number in all of them
How they position itA regulation that writes the sentence for you, parenthesis and all, is a reference object. It is also the single most useful thing on this page for anyone naming a drink.
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And Under One Percent Has Its Own Words
The third branch of the declaration rule
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101.30(b)(2)less than 1
Read the branch
Less than 1 percent juice.
The rule will not let a
number round, and it will
not let it disappear.
Between zero and one the regulation declines to use a figure at all. It prescribes a phrase instead, and the phrase is the only form offered.
21 C.F.R. 101.30(b)(1) AND (2), QUOTED · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
If the beverage contains fruit or vegetable juice, the percentage shall be declared by the words "Contains __ percent (or %) ______ juice" or "__ percent (or %) juice," or a similar phrase, with the first blank filled in with the percentage expressed as a whole number not greater than the actual percentage ... (e.g., "Contains 50 percent apple juice" or "50 percent juice").21 C.F.R. 101.30(b)(1), QUOTED WITH OUR ELLIPSIS.
If the beverage contains less than 1 percent juice, the total percentage juice shall be declared as "less than 1 percent juice" or "less than 1 percent ______ juice" with the blank filled in with the name of the particular fruit or vegetable.21 C.F.R. 101.30(b)(2), QUOTED WHOLE.
THE DIRECTION THE NUMBER MAY MOVE"a whole number not greater than the actual percentage". The rounding runs one way only, and the section says which way rather than leaving it to practice.ONE WAY
AND WHY THERE IS A THIRD BRANCH AT ALLBecause a whole number not greater than the actual percentage would be 0 for anything under one percent, and zero is the word the section reserves for a beverage with no juice in it. The third branch exists so that two different things are not said the same way. That is this page's reading of the structure and nothing in the section states it.OUR READING
1percent, the threshold
3branches in the declaration rule
2forms offered under it
How they position itNoticing why a third branch has to exist, and saying plainly that the reading is ours, is the move that separates a reference from a paraphrase.
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What We Will Not Conclude From That
The inference this page refuses, and the sections it did not read
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not applied5 unread
Read the refusal
Two sections are quoted.
Nothing on this page says
what any label must carry
or what any product is.
Nine cards of labeling rules lead straight to one wrong use of them, so it is refused here, in the middle, together with the list of cross-references this page deliberately left unread.
THE REFUSAL, AND THE LIST OF WHAT WAS NOT READ · HOLD EVERY OTHER CARD AGAINST THIS ONEREFUSED
WE DO NOT SAY WHAT ANY LABEL MUST CARRYNot for any product, not for anybody. Two sections are quoted and nothing is applied to anything. We do not say any drink purports to contain juice, is within either section, is exempt from either, or needs to declare anything at all.REFUSED
WHAT WAS NOT READ, NAMEDBoth sections lean on cross-references and none of the five was read: 21 C.F.R. 102.5(a) and (b)(2), the descriptive-name standard; 101.22(i)(1)(iii), on added natural flavors; 101.9, the nutrition labeling section; 101.2, which defines the information panel; and 101.7(i), on net quantity type size. Each is named where the quoted text names it and nothing is said about what any of them requires. And no State instrument was read.5 AND A LAYER
NOTHING HERE IS ABOUT ALCOHOL OR DRINKINGNo consumption, no comparison between kinds of drink, nothing about what anyone should drink and no health or nutrition claim about juice, sugar or any ingredient. The word cocktail is on this page because 21 C.F.R. 102.33(a) prints it as a labeling term, and the point of the page is that the federal meaning has nothing to do with alcohol.REFUSED
AND ONE READING ON THIS PAGE IS OURS, AND IS LABELEDCard 09 reasons about why a third declaration branch exists. The section does not state it. That card says so on its face, and it is the only inference of its kind anywhere here.CARD 09
AND HOW FAR THIS PAGE ACTUALLY LOOKEDTwo sections of one title, pulled whole and read: 21 C.F.R. 101.30 and 102.33. That is two sections, and this page does not pretend it is more. Card 20 has the rest of the refusals.2 SECTIONS
0products classified
5cross-references not read
0State instruments read
How they position itNaming the five cross-references you did not follow is a harder credential than any claim of completeness, and it is what a regulatory reader looks for first.
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The Flavor Exemption Has Three Conditions
How a product leaves the declaration rule, and what keeps it in
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101.30(c)threepulp
Read all three
No juice on the label. No
explicit vignette. And no
specific physical
resemblance, such as pulp.
A beverage with minor amounts of juice, labeled as a flavor, can fall outside the declaration. Three things must be absent, and the third is about the liquid rather than the label.
21 C.F.R. 101.30(c), QUOTED WHOLE · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
If a beverage contains minor amounts of juice for flavoring and is labeled with a flavor description using terms such as "flavor", "flavored", or "flavoring" with a fruit or vegetable name and does not bear: (1) The term "juice" on the label other than in the ingredient statement; or (2) An explicit vignette depicting the fruit or vegetable from which the flavor derives, such as juice exuding from a fruit or vegetable; or (3) Specific physical resemblance to a juice or distinctive juice characteristic such as pulp then total percentage juice declaration is not required.21 C.F.R. 101.30(c), QUOTED WHOLE.
THE SHAPE OF ITA condition precedent - minor amounts, labeled as a flavor - and then 3 things the product must not bear. The list is joined by "or", so bearing any one of them is enough to take the exemption away.ANY ONE
THE SECOND IS A PICTURE WITH A QUALITYNot any vignette: an explicit one, and the agency supplies the image it has in mind - "juice exuding from a fruit or vegetable".EXUDING
AND THE THIRD IS IN THE GLASS"Specific physical resemblance to a juice or distinctive juice characteristic such as pulp". The exemption can be lost by what is suspended in the liquid, with nothing printed anywhere.PULP
3conditions, all of which must hold
2about the label
1about the liquid
How they position itAn exemption that can be lost to a visual quality of the liquid itself is the detail a product developer needs before the artwork is commissioned.
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Near The Top, And Nothing Above It
Where the declaration has to sit on the panel
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101.30(e)4 exceptions
Read the placement
Near the top of the
information panel, with no
other printed label
information above it.
The section does not only prescribe the words. It prescribes the position, and then names the four things allowed to sit higher on the panel.
21 C.F.R. 101.30(e)(1), QUOTED WHOLE · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
Near the top of the information panel, with no other printed label information appearing above the statement except the brand name, product name, logo, or universal product code.21 C.F.R. 101.30(e)(1), QUOTED WHOLE. THE INFORMATION PANEL IS DEFINED AT 21 C.F.R. 101.2, WHICH WAS NOT READ.
THE FOUR THINGS THAT MAY SIT HIGHERbrand name, product name, logo, universal product code. 4, named and closed - the sentence says "except" and then lists them, with no "such as".4 ONLY
AND THE TWO WORDS DOING THE WORK"Near the top". Not at the top, not first. The paragraph sets a position and a relationship, and the relationship is what the exception list is for.NEAR THE TOP
A SECOND REQUIREMENT IN THE SAME PARAGRAPH101.30(e)(2) adds that the statement be in "easily legible boldface print or type in distinct contrast to other printed or graphic matter". Type weight and contrast, prescribed in the same breath as position.BOLDFACE
4things allowed above it
1panel named
2requirements in the paragraph
How they position itA closed list of four things allowed above a line of type is exactly the sort of fact a packaging designer loses an afternoon to. Printing it is the service.
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No Smaller Than The Largest Type
The size rule, and the five things it excuses
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101.30(e)(2)not less
Read the rule
In a height not less than
the largest type found on
the information panel,
with five exceptions.
The size requirement is relative rather than absolute. It measures the declaration against whatever else is largest on the panel, and then excuses five named things from the comparison.
21 C.F.R. 101.30(e)(2), QUOTED · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
... in a height not less than the largest type found on the information panel except that used for the brand name, product name, logo, universal product code, the title phrase "Nutrition Facts," the declaration of "Serving size," "Calories" and the numerical value for "Calories" appearing in the nutrition information as required by 21 C.F.R. 101.9.21 C.F.R. 101.30(e)(2), QUOTED WITH OUR ELLIPSIS AT THE FRONT AND THE SECTION SIGN WRITTEN OUT.
A RELATIVE RULENo point size appears anywhere in the paragraph. The requirement is a comparison, and what it compares against changes with the design of the panel.NO POINT SIZE
AND THE EXCEPTION LIST IS LONGER THAN THE PLACEMENT ONECard 12's list has four items. This one adds the Nutrition Facts title phrase, the Serving size declaration, Calories, and the numerical value for Calories. The list grows when the subject is size rather than position.LONGER
AND TWO MORE PLACEMENTS IN THE SAME SECTION101.30(f) permits the declaration on the principal display panel as well, if consistent. 101.30(g) governs a package with no information panel at all, where the type size is pinned to 21 C.F.R. 101.7(i) instead - another cross-reference this page names and did not read.TWO MORE
5things excused from the comparison
0absolute sizes given
1panel it is measured against
How they position itA type-size rule with no type size in it, and an exception list that grows as you read, is the kind of structural reading only a dedicated address bothers to do.
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A Picture You May Not Use
When the source fruit may not be depicted at all
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102.33(f)no longerrecognizable
Read the bar
If the original juice is no
longer recognizable, the
source fruit may not be
depicted on the label.
Most of this scheme prescribes what a label says. One paragraph runs the other way and removes an image from the designer's hands entirely.
21 C.F.R. 102.33(f), QUOTED WHOLE · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
If the product is a beverage that contains a juice whose color, taste, or other organoleptic properties have been modified to the extent that the original juice is no longer recognizable at the time processing is complete, or if its nutrient profile has been diminished to a level below the normal nutrient range for the juice, then the source fruits or vegetables from which the modified juice was derived may not be depicted on the label by vignette or other pictorial representation.21 C.F.R. 102.33(f), QUOTED WHOLE.
TWO ROUTES TO THE SAME BAREither the juice is no longer recognizable by color, taste or other organoleptic properties, or its nutrient profile has fallen below the normal range. 2 tests, and meeting either one removes the picture.EITHER
THE DIRECTION IS UNUSUALThe rest of this scheme prescribes words. This paragraph prescribes an absence - it bars an image and offers nothing in its place.MAY NOT
AND THE WORD FROM CARD 07, AGAIN"vignette" does the work here too. The same word that can pull a product into the declaration rule at 101.30(a) is the thing barred outright at 102.33(f). One word, two opposite consequences, in two sections.VIGNETTE
This card quotes a paragraph. It does not say that any juice, product or image is or is not within it, and no view is offered on any process, ingredient or nutrient. The phrase "nutrient profile" appears here because the regulation uses it.
2tests in the paragraph
1image it bars
0alternatives it offers
How they position itOne word with two opposite consequences in two sections is the kind of connection that only shows up when someone reads both, and it is why this address would be cited.
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Modified Juice Has To Say How
Naming a juice that has been changed
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102.33(e)exact nature
Read the examples
Acid-reduced cranberry
juice. Deflavored, decolored
grape juice. The agency
wrote both of those.
A modified juice cannot be named as the juice. The name has to describe the modification, and the regulation's own two examples are more vivid than anything a summary would invent.
21 C.F.R. 102.33(e), QUOTED WHOLE · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
The common or usual name of a juice that has been modified shall include a description of the exact nature of the modification (e.g., "acid-reduced cranberry juice," "deflavored, decolored grape juice").21 C.F.R. 102.33(e), QUOTED WHOLE. BOTH EXAMPLES ARE THE AGENCY'S OWN.
THE STANDARDNot "a description of the modification" but "a description of the exact nature of the modification". The paragraph is one sentence and the strictness is in two words of it.EXACT NATURE
THREE MODIFICATIONS IN TWO EXAMPLESacid-reduced; deflavored; decolored. 3 coined past participles, and the second example stacks two of them in one name with a comma between.3
AND ONE MORE NAMING RULE BESIDE IT102.33(g)(1) requires that a juice made from concentrate say so, "such as 'from concentrate,' or 'reconstituted'", either on each juice or once adjacent to the product name so that it applies to all. The agency again supplies the two forms of words.FROM CONCENTRATE
2worked examples supplied
1requirement in the paragraph
3modifications named across them
How they position itTwo agency-written example names that read like poetry are the most quotable thing in this section, and a drinks brand that finds them here remembers where.
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The Agency Invented A Brand Name
A coined product name, printed twice in the Code
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102.33(d)Raspcranberry
Read both
Raspcranberry. The word
appears twice in the
regulation and nowhere
else in the chapter.
To illustrate two different ways of complying with one paragraph, the agency made up a product name and used it in both examples. It is not a real product and no business is named here.
21 C.F.R. 102.33(d), QUOTED WHOLE · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
In a diluted multiple-juice beverage or blend of single-strength juices where one or more, but not all, of the juices are named on the label other than in the ingredient statement, and where the named juice is not the predominant juice, the common or usual name for the product shall: (1) Indicate that the named juice is present as a flavor or flavoring (e.g., "Raspcranberry"; raspberry and cranberry flavored juice drink); or (2) Include the amount of the named juice, declared in a 5-percent range (e.g., Raspcranberry; raspberry and cranberry juice beverage, 10- to 15-percent cranberry juice and 3- to 8-percent raspberry juice).21 C.F.R. 102.33(d), QUOTED WHOLE. "Raspcranberry" IS THE AGENCY'S OWN INVENTED EXAMPLE, NOT A PRODUCT. NO BUSINESS IS NAMED ANYWHERE ON THIS PAGE.
TWO ROUTES, ONE COINED NAMEThe same invented word is used for both branches so a reader can see the difference between them. In (1) it is in quotation marks; in (2) the Code drops them. The agency is inconsistent with its own invention across two consecutive clauses.QUOTED, THEN NOT
THE SECOND ROUTE IS ARITHMETICA 5-percent range, declared per juice: "10- to 15-percent cranberry juice and 3- to 8-percent raspberry juice". Two ranges in one name, each five points wide, and the manner of declaring them is set at 21 C.F.R. 102.5(b)(2), which this page did not read.5-POINT RANGE
WHY THIS IS THE BEST THING IN THE SECTIONBecause a regulation that has to invent a brand name to explain itself is telling you how hard the naming problem is. The word is in the Code of Federal Regulations and belongs to nobody.IN THE CODE
2times the coined name appears
2compliance routes it illustrates
5percent, the range width
How they position itA coined brand name sitting inside a federal regulation is the single most shareable fact in this material, and the page that found it owns the search for it.
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A Name That Is Also A Sentence
How long the agency's model names actually are
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Raspcranberry; raspberry
and cranberry juice
beverage, ten to fifteen
percent cranberry juice.
Counted as written, the example names in these two sections are not names in any ordinary sense. One of them carries two numeric ranges and runs past twenty words.
THE FOUR EXAMPLE NAMES IN 21 C.F.R. 102.33, COUNTED HERE · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026MEASURED HERE
"grape juice drink"From 102.33(a). The shortest the section offers.3 WORDS
"raspberry-flavored apple and pear juice drink"From 102.33(b), illustrating the exception to descending order.6 WORDS
"Apple blend; apple juice in a blend of two other fruit juices."From 102.33(c). Semicolon and full stop are the Code's.12 WORDS
"Raspcranberry; raspberry and cranberry juice beverage, 10- to 15-percent cranberry juice and 3- to 8-percent raspberry juice"From 102.33(d)(2). Counted as printed, hyphenated ranges counted as one word each.20 WORDS
THE METHOD, BECAUSE A WORD COUNT DEPENDS ON ITCounted on whitespace, as printed. A hyphenated range such as "10- to 15-percent" counts as three. 4 example names were counted and all four are quoted above so the count can be checked.ON WHITESPACE
AND WHAT THE RANGE TELLS YOUFrom 3 words to 20, inside one section, all four offered as a "common or usual name". This page does not say any of them is good or bad, or that any real name should look like any of them.3 TO 20
20words in the longest example
12in the apple blend example
4example names counted
How they position itCounting the agency's own examples, and printing the counting method beside them, is a small piece of work that makes everything else on the page checkable.
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From Concentrate, Said Once Or Said Each Time
Two ways to place one required phrase
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102.33(g)onceeach
Read both
From concentrate, or
reconstituted. On every
juice, or once beside the
product name for all of them.
The requirement is fixed and the placement is not. The regulation offers two arrangements and writes out an example of each, differing only in where the parenthesis sits.
21 C.F.R. 102.33(g)(1), QUOTED · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
If one or more juices in a juice beverage is made from concentrate, the name of the juice must include a term indicating that fact, such as "from concentrate," or "reconstituted." Such terms must be included in the name of each individual juice or it may be stated once adjacent to the product name so that it applies to all the juices (e.g., "cherry juice (from concentrate) in a blend of two other juices" or "cherry juice in a blend of 2 other juices (from concentrate)").21 C.F.R. 102.33(g)(1), QUOTED. THE TWO EXAMPLES DIFFER ONLY IN WHERE THE PARENTHESIS SITS.
THE TWO EXAMPLES, SIDE BY SIDE"cherry juice (from concentrate) in a blend of two other juices" against "cherry juice in a blend of 2 other juices (from concentrate)". The same eight words, one parenthesis, two positions, two different meanings.ONE PARENTHESIS
AND A DETAIL IN THE AGENCY'S OWN TYPINGThe first example writes "two other juices" and the second writes "2 other juices". Same paragraph, same construction, the numeral spelled one way and then the other. Reported as printed.TWO, THEN 2
WHAT THIS PAGE DOES NOT SAYIt does not say the inconsistency matters, that either form is preferred, or that any label should use either example. Both are quoted as printed and nothing is applied.AS PRINTED
2forms of words offered
2placements offered
1requirement behind them
How they position itCatching that the agency spelled the same number two ways in one paragraph is the detail that tells a reader this page actually read the text.
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One Hundred Percent, With Added
The branch for a juice that is already whole
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101.30(b)(3)with added
Read the branch
One hundred percent juice
with added sweetener.
The agency's own example,
for a product at the top.
A product at one hundred percent is outside the diluted-beverage naming paragraph, but not outside the declaration rule. A separate branch handles the non-juice things in it.
21 C.F.R. 101.30(b)(3), QUOTED · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
If the beverage contains 100 percent juice and also contains non-juice ingredients that do not result in a diminution of the juice soluble solids or, in the case of expressed juice, in a change in the volume, when the 100 percent juice declaration appears on a panel of the label that does not also bear the ingredient statement, it must be accompanied by the phrase "with added ______," the blank filled in with a term such as "ingredient(s)," "preservative," or "sweetener," as appropriate (e.g., "100% juice with added sweetener"), except that when the presence of the non-juice ingredient(s) is declared as a part of the statement of identity of the product, this phrase need not accompany the 100 percent juice declaration.21 C.F.R. 101.30(b)(3), QUOTED WHOLE. THE UNDERSCORE RUN IS THE CODE'S OWN BLANK.
THREE TERMS FOR ONE BLANK"ingredient(s)," "preservative," or "sweetener," as appropriate. 3 offered, with "such as" in front of them, so the list is open.3, OPEN
THE CONDITION THAT MAKES IT APPLYOnly where the 100 percent declaration appears on a panel that does not also bear the ingredient statement. The requirement turns on which panel the reader is looking at.WHICH PANEL
AND THE CONDITION THAT REMOVES ITIf the non-juice ingredients are declared "as a part of the statement of identity", the phrase is not needed. 1 exception, in the last clause of a long sentence.1 EXCEPTION
3terms the blank may take
1condition that removes the phrase
100the percent in question
How they position itThe top of the range is where premium drinks live, and the branch that governs it is the longest sentence in the section. Quoting it whole is the useful thing.
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What This Page Will Not Say
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Everything this page
declines to conclude,
in one place, so it can
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A page quoting a labeling rule can mislead by implication alone. The list below is published in full so a reader can hold every other card against it.
THE REFUSALS, IN FULL · HOLD EVERY OTHER CARD AGAINST THIS ONEREFUSED
THAT ANY LABEL MUST CARRY ANYTHINGFor any product, any brand, anywhere. Two sections are quoted and nothing is applied to anything. We do not say any drink purports to contain juice, is within either section, is exempt from either, or needs to declare anything at all.REFUSED
THAT ANY PRODUCT IS OR IS NOT A MOCKTAIL, A JUICE OR A BEVERAGENo product, name, picture, color or flavor is classified anywhere on this page, including any that might be described in the twenty use-case snapshots.REFUSED
ANYTHING ABOUT ALCOHOL OR DRINKINGNo consumption, no comparison between kinds of drink, nothing about what anyone should drink. The word "cocktail" is on this page because 21 C.F.R. 102.33(a) prints it as a labeling term, and the point of the page is that the federal meaning has nothing to do with alcohol.REFUSED
ANY HEALTH OR NUTRITION CLAIMAbout juice, sugar, additives, concentrate or anything else, in either direction. The phrases "nutrient profile" and "juice soluble solids" appear only inside quotations, because the regulations use them.REFUSED
ANY CHARACTERIZATION OF WHAT WAS NOT READ21 C.F.R. 102.5(a) and (b)(2), 101.22(i)(1)(iii), 101.9, 101.2 and 101.7(i). Five cross-references these two sections depend on, every one named where the quoted text names it and none of them read.REFUSED
ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT ANY STATE REQUIRESIn either direction. No State instrument was read, so none is characterized.REFUSED
THAT RASPCRANBERRY IS A PRODUCTIt is the agency's own invented example, printed twice in 21 C.F.R. 102.33(d). No business is named anywhere on this page, and card 16 says so on its face.REFUSED
THAT ANY EXAMPLE NAME IS GOOD OR BADFour of the agency's example names are counted on card 17. The counting is arithmetic; no view is offered on any of them, and none is recommended for anything.REFUSED
THAT ANY DRAFTING INCONSISTENCY MATTERSCard 18 reports that one paragraph spells the same number two ways. It is reported as printed and nothing turns on it. No provision quoted here is called an error.REFUSED
ANY ADVICE TO ANYBODYNot to a brand, a bottler, a bar, a retailer or a buyer. Nothing here tells anyone what they must do or whether anything applies to them.REFUSED
AND ONE READING HERE IS OURS, AND SAYS SOCard 09 reasons about why a third declaration branch has to exist. The section does not state it, that card says so on its face, and it is the only inference of its kind on this page.DISCLOSED
AND THAT THIS IS COMPLETEHold all 20 cards against this list. 2 sections of one title were pulled whole and read. That is two sections, and this page does not pretend it is more.NOT COMPLETE
20cards it can be checked against
2sections read whole
0products classified
How they position itThe refusal list is the asset. It is the first thing a serious buyer reads and the reason the other nineteen cards are worth believing.