Table of Contents
BEST IELTS Academic Reading Test 528
IELTS ACADEMIC READING TEST 528 – PASSAGE – 1

IELTS ACADEMIC READING TEST
READING PASSAGE – 1
A. ‘One of your five a day’ appears on food labels globally to encourage consumers to purchase larger quantities of fruit and vegetables for them or their families to consume. Food manufacturers dedicate substantial financial budgets to advertising and marketing campaigns but, unfortunately, they are not always totally clear about the contents of their products. If fruit juice is produced from natural fruit then we think we can safely presume it is nutritionally rich. Unfortunately that is not necessarily the case.
B. Medical research has discovered that the reality behind the carton of juice in the fridge is different from the perceived image. Practitioners argue that consuming too much juice can be an unnecessary extra source of sugar and calories, and moreover it does not contain the same fibre and nutrients that raw fruits do. So what happens to all the goodness between the picking of the fruit and the bottling of the juice?
IELTS Academic Reading Test
C. Let’s use orange juice as an example. From about the middle of the 20th century, it became an incredibly popular drink in the United States, Canada and Japan for both its flavour and its value as a healthy product to drink. These days, places like Florida in the United States or the state of São Paulo in Brazil employ thousands of people in what has become big business.
In the 1960s, Florida lost a lot of trees through frost and in 2005 they lost more to the citrus greening disease. This allowed Brazil to become a key player in the global orange juice market. These two remain the market leaders in this sector. Today, thousands of hectares of orange groves produce perfect fruit to meet these international needs. But what happens to the fruit over the next part of the process?
D. The production of fruit concentrates and fruit juice starts with the raw material which is transported to the plant and then unloaded using one of two methods: hydro-unloading; and dry unloading. The difference between the two is the fact that water is used in the former but not in the latter. Once the raw produce has been unloaded from the tipper, it is then sorted using a spiral sorter to separate any impurities such as branches, leaves, stones and dirt. A conveyor belt then transports the raw material to giant metal refrigeration chambers where it is stored ready to be turned into liquid.
IELTS Academic Reading Test
E. The next stage of the process is to rinse the fruits with hydraulic jet sprays before removing the peel. The peel of an orange is thick and bitter and would affect the sweetness of the juice. The raw materials are then transferred to a metal inspection belt or roller table where any oranges which do not satisfy requirements are rejected. Sorted materials are directly transported using a feeder made from acidproof materials to the mill where pressing rollers begin the pulping process. The unclarified juice from the presses proceeds to a pasteurisation and aroma recovery process in an evaporation station. During this process enzymes are deactivated to obtain microbiological stabilisation.
F. From this stage onwards the pulp remains in monstrous oxygen depleted storage tanks and can be stored for up to a year before it is diverted into the plethora of fruit-based products on the market. This storage tends to remove most of the original flavour, causing many manufacturers to add flavour packs to the pulp to return the flavour that was lost during processing. Nutritionists argue that fruit juice is often watered down to such an extent that all nutritional value is absent and consumers are drinking fruit-flavoured sugar water that is very far removed from the fruit in its original state.
IELTS Academic Reading Test
G. Of course there are still many manufacturers who use a more organic process, but their products remain more expensive than the market leaders and so out of reach to many customers. Things have changed a lot from the times when families used to squeeze their own orange juice. The problem with that approach was the number of oranges required to make one glass and often the amount of sugar added to improve the flavour. An equally unhealthy approach!
Questions 1 – 5
The passage has seven paragraphs A-G. Write the correct letter for each one.
1. Two regions dominate global orange juice sales.
2. Making your own juice is not always economical or healthy.
3. The marketing message about fruit juice might not be completely true.
4. Turning the chilled fruit into liquid is a sophisticated process.
5. Doctors argue a lot of goodness is lost during the process.
IELTS Academic Reading Test
Questions 6 – 10
Match the following statements with the best ending i–vi from the box below. One ending is not used.
i. lost in the process.
ii. both removed and added.
iii. removed because it is bitter.
iv. thought to be high in nutrients.
v. a popular drink from the mid of the 20th Century.
vi. pasteurised before storage.
IELTS Academic Reading Test
6. Natural fruit juice is
7. Orange juice became
8. During the process, water is
9. After pressing, the pulp is
10. A lot of flavour is
IELTS Academic Reading Test
Questions 11 – 13
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1? Write.
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
11. The recent findings about the production of fruit juice has led to a pollution.
12. The acid in the fruit could affect the sweetness of the juice.
13. There can be up to a year fruits stored in oxygen depleted tanks.
IELTS Academic Reading Test

IELTS Academic Reading Test
ANSWERS
1. C
2. G
3. A
4. E
5. B
6. iv
7. v
8. ii
9. vi
10. i
11. NOT GIVEN
12. FALSE
13. TRUE
IELTS Academic Reading Test