In order to increase the consumption and competitiveness of domestic fruits, the Agriculture and Food Administration of the Executive Yuan's Agriculture Committee organized the "109 Taiwan Fruit Creative Hand Beverage Competition", inviting beverage manufacturers to develop beverages using domestic fruits as raw materials.


A total of 122 beverages participated in this event. After preliminary review, 30 beverages were selected to enter the finals. The first stage of the finals will be processed in early November. Blind taste selection will be conducted in the northern, central and southern business districts. The second stage will be processed on this (13) day. In the finals, drinks were prepared on-site and evaluated by judges from different fields. Three excellent drinks were selected according to the "Fruit and Powerful Group", "Dynamic and Powerful Group", and "Surely Ruthlessly Beautiful Group". The 9 winning drinks will be selected in one week. After the listing, consumers can purchase.

Domestically produced fruits are awesome in all seasons
The Agriculture and Food Administration stated that in order to encourage beverage companies to incorporate Taiwan’s fresh, local, and natural fruits into their hand-shaking drinks, to create diversified fruit products, and to introduce commercial operation models, the department has been running hand-shaking competitions for two consecutive years. Different from the previous summer, this year selected autumn and winter seasonal fruits including dragon fruit, guava, citrus, lemon, banana and papaya as raw materials, allowing the industry to develop creativity and hope that it can also create hand-crank drinks in autumn and winter and increase domestic production. The number of fruit diversified utilization.





該署進一步說明，本次比賽分為「果粒嗨翻組」(果肉比例高，健康導向)、「動感有力組」(結合咖啡或茶葉，活力導向)及「果然狠美組」(創意導向)，共32家業者報名，122支飲品參賽

第一階段邀集食品、餐飲等產業之專家及學者進行書審，三組各選出10組產品入圍第二階段為街頭盲選及專家、KOL評選，本(13)日辦理現場飲品調製，由不同領域評審進行品評加上盲選成績

「果粒嗨翻組」
由Chachago -「露草芭樂知秋」、初韻 -「紅妃Q木瓜」、黑沃咖啡 -「香蘭紅豆生龍果」獲獎
「動感有力組」
由日日裝茶 -「虎糖鮮檸柚子茶」、鬍子茶 -「赤心芭樂玉露凍」、拾覺細做 -「龍鳳橙祥」獲獎
「果然狠美組」
由台茶一號 -「洛神檸檬醋」、鮮自然 -「火粒全開」、北回 -「來一口濃郁蕉香」獲獎
每組獲選飲品均可獲得獎金各10萬元，於一週後上市，並將透過電視節目進行推廣。

該署希望透過國內飲品業者開發新飲品，帶動國產水果及飲料業者的正向互動，提高國產水果消費量及競爭力，增加國人水果多元消費途徑。