Why is it that...?

Question

Orange juice is called orange juice, apple juice is called apple juice but it's called lemonade? I mean i understand that it has added sugar and stuff but so does that other stuff it's not like it's pure orange juice or apple juice. So why aren't they called orangeade or appleade??

Answer 1

Any drink that has sugar added to it is not a juice, it's an "ade" (or perhaps a "punch"). Fruit juices (such as orange juice or apple juice) contain sugar because the sugars occur naturally in the fruits used to make them, but if sugar is added it should no longer be called a juice. Lemon juice (with no sugar added) is too tart to suit most tastes, thus the drink made from lemons is always "lemonade", whereas the orange and apple have enough natural sweetness to make a pleasant juice drink without added sugar.

The Food and Drug Administration (as you might expect) has very specific rules for what beverages can be called a "juice". These are spelled out in the Code of Federal Regulations. Lemon juice is "the unfermented juice ... from sound mature lemons, from which seeds and excess pulp are removed." Lemonade is prepared from lemon juice "together with one or any mixture of safe and suitable nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners." (nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners = sugars)

The term "lemonade" itself is derived by adding the suffix "ade" to the noun, lemon. The -ade suffix is derived from French. One sense in which it is used in English is to denote the product or outcome of a process done on the root word, for example "masquerade" (the outcome that results from donning a mask), or "colonnade" (the result of lining up a row of columns), or "lemonade" (the outcome of processing lemon juice by adding sugar). (It has nothing to do with its similar pronunciation to "aid", as some here suggested.)

Answer 2

Because Lemon Juice exists, and it tastes nothing like Lemonade. Orangade also exists, and it tastes nothing like Orange Juice!

Answer 3

I think because we can drink orange juice and apple juice as is,
but lemon juice needs to be aided for most of us to drink.GREAT QUESTION NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT

Answer 4

I think lemonade got its name because lemon aids in health. I know apples and oranges are good for you too, but lemons have some unique properties. Iam 99% sure on this.

Answer 5

be case it is abbreviated from the words..."lemon aided by sugar"

Answer 6

I agree with lizzy