DURINGthe past ten years, a variety of canned fruit and vegetable juices has come into popular favor. However, the first attempts to pack a fruit juice in tin containers, specifically apple cider, date back to more than twenty years ago. In general, these early efforts met with failure. The low corrosion resistance of the hot-rolled tin plate of high metalloid content (the only type of plate available at that time) imposed a limited commercial life on the product, with the result that the packing of cider in tin did not prove economically feasible.About ten years ago canned tomato juice first came into commercial production after a short period of development (39). Few other foods have received such immediate and widespread consumer acceptance. Production statistics for canned tomato juice from 1933 to date are as follows (23):

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