Vegetable Juice Pricing and Costs

Pricing out vegetable-based juice for your business

Doctors recommend adults get at least two to three cups of vegetables a day, but since few Americans actually eat that many, some are beginning to drink the recommended amount, making it attractive for your food business to look into vegetable juice pricing and costs. And why not? Vegetable juice is a tasty alternative to the many available less healthful drinks like sodas and sports drinks, and it is packed with vitamins and minerals.

Whether you want to sell single-serving bottles or kitchen-ready cans to your customers, you need canned vegetable juice suitable for your commercial kitchen or you even need vegetable juice powder for your health food store, there are plenty of vegetable juice companies and distributors to choose from. But before you begin buying, consider which type of juice you're most likely to sell and what it will cost you. You may need:

1. Single-serving veggie juice bottles like V8 juice,
2. Large cans of raw vegetable juice, such as is used in cooking,
3. Or organic vegetable juice powders, as is found in health food stores?

 

Purchase single and mixed vegetable juice for individuals

Single- or double-serving bottles of 6 to 12 oz. of vegetable juice have recently become popular and may be found in many grocery and convenience stores alongside sodas and sports drinks. Depending upon the quantities ordered, expect to pay between $20 to $25 for a case (24 count) of V8 vegetable juice cocktail or similar bottled vegetable or vegetable fruit juice.
Try: Nationwide Candy sells 12-oz. bottles of V8 100% vegetable juice. Wholesale Depot offers Campbell's Tomato Juice and V8 at wholesale prices.

Buy kitchen-ready cans from a vegetable juice wholesaler

If you need cans of tomato juice, such as a consumer or commercial kitchen would buy for cooking, wholesale costs depend not just on quantities purchased but also the brand. For example, Campbell's Tomato Juice in a 46-oz. can is about $20 to $25 for a case of 12, while the same amount of 46-oz. cans of Red Gold Tomato Juice runs closer to $25 to $30.
Try: Southeast Wholesale Foods sells 5- to 46-oz. cans of tomato, carrot and Mott's Clamato juice, suitable for cooking. Best Price Wholesale offers several popular brands of tomato juice, plus V8 vegetable juice, in cans suitable for the kitchen.

Consider juice powders from vegetable juice distributors

Vegetable juice powders are often found in health food stores or food businesses catering toward those who consume health foods. To use, you or your customer must simply mix the powder with an appropriate amount of water. Organic beet juice powder costs about $18 to $25 per pound wholesale, while organic powdered carrot juice is $14 to $20 wholesale and organic spinach powder is $18 to $20.
Try: Purehealthsystems.com sells vegetable powders, including beet, carrot, tomato and spinach, at wholesale prices. Nutrition Lifestyles offers beet juice powder wholesale.

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