Sunkist Juicer

The Jadite Sunkist juicer is a blast from the past. If you are old enough to know what a juicer is, then you will remember your mother using one to make you some fresh squeezed orange juice for breakfast. It is a shallow glass container with a ribbed cone on the top and a shallow rimmed dish on the bottom to catch the juice from the fruit that is being squeezed. The Jadite Sunkist juicer is an antique collectible that is a real treat to find. It is also sometimes called a reamer. The meaning of a reamer is a tool used to bore out a hole into something. If you were to cut a fruit in half and place the cut piece on the juicer and began to turn and squeeze at the same time you would get some juice from the fruit. That is how it got its name, by squeezing the juice from the fruit or reaming the juice from the fruit. The Jadite Sunkist juicer was a very essential tool to have and most homes had a juicer of some form to make their breakfast juice.

The Jadite Sunkist juicer is the color of Jade. Jadite refers to the color and not a company or maker of glass products. Jadite is an opaque green luster that is like a sea-foam green. Jadite is sometimes called “clambroth”. Jadite glass was an inexpensive to make type of dinnerware. It was also a very durable and heavy glass. Jadite was made between 1930 and 1972. The Jadite was produced by many different glass companies. It may have had a slight variance in color, either lighter or darker. One of the most well known is Anchor Hocking glass company. Anchor Hocking made a line of Fire King that also had the seafoam-green color. The Jadite Sunkist juicer was made as an advertisement for the Sunkist Company. What a perfect way to advertise your fruit by giving away a Jadite Sunkist juicer.

Sunkist was first known as the Southern California Fruit Exchange in 1893. It was a cooperative of fruit growers that united to sell their fruit. The Coop was run and shared by the members of the Exchange. It became a very profitable means for the growers to all work together as a team to distribute their fruit. In 1905 the Exchange changed its name to California Fruit Growers Exchange. With all the advertising and promotions of the Fruit Growers the orange started to become a household item. The Jadite Sunkist juicer could have been one of there promotional items. Sunkist was introduced in 1907 and became the symbol of there best quality of fruit. In 1952, Sunkist Growers was the name that was used by the members of the Exchange. Oranges, grapefruit, lemons make up well over half of the citrus produced with a Sunkist label. It is a perfect job for the Jadite Sunkist juicer to harvest the vitamin rich juice from the delicious Sunkist fruit.

If collecting glass or kitchen items is of interest to you then the Jadite Sunkist juicer is a treasure worth searching for. The novelty of having the Sunkist logo and the added value of the Jadite color is worth owning such a fine collectible. We could tell the tales of a time when our mother or grandmother had to get her juicer from the cupboard and squeeze the juice from her favorite fruit to make a glass of juice. It is a reminder of times when we has to do things for ourselves. The quality and freshness of a fruit drink that has been squeezed by a juicer is pure and very good to drink. The Jadite Sunkist juicer can squeeze my fruit any day of the week.