Tesco Summer Edition 4 Valencia Orange Juice Lollies

What is it?

Valencia is a juicing orange rather than an eating one, with thin skin, few seeds and roughly half its weight in juice, and it's one of the main juicing varieties worldwide. That acidity is why it suits a lolly. Freezing dulls sweetness and aroma far more than it dulls sourness, so a variety chosen for sharpness still tastes of orange once frozen where a sweeter one would fade. Naming the variety on a lolly is unusual, and it does the same job that naming a vanilla origin does on a tub. Juice rather than flavouring also changes the texture. There is more dissolved solid in a juice lolly, so it sets softer and melts less cleanly than a water ice would.