FSSAI licence for a juice shop or juice brand.
A fresh-juice counter or a sugarcane-juice stall with turnover up to ₹1.5 crore needs an FSSAI Registration, at ₹100 a year or nil for a mobile vendor since 28.09.2024. Bottling juice to sell through shops is manufacturing, and the bottle has to meet the fruit-juice standards in Chapter 2.3.
A juice bar serving fresh juice is food service, and a mobile sugarcane-juice cart is a hawker (Registration, nil fee). Bottled or packed juice is General Manufacturing, food category 14.1.2. Up to ₹1.5 crore turnover: Registration, ₹100 a year. ₹1.5–50 crore: State Licence, ₹5,000. Above ₹50 crore: Central Licence, ₹7,500.
Which FSSAI licence a juice business needs.
| Annual turnover | You need | Government fee (to FSSAI) | Our filing fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up to ₹1.5 crore | Registration | ₹100 a year | ₹4,500 |
| ₹1.5 crore – ₹50 crore | State Licence | ₹5,000 a year | ₹12,500 |
| Above ₹50 crore | Central Licence | ₹7,500 a year | ₹19,500 |
Per FSSAI’s kind-of-business table updated 01.04.2026. Our fee is one-time plus GST. Operating in two or more States/UTs adds a head-office Central Licence (₹7,500 a year).
What to choose on FoSCoS
- Food Service — a juice bar or counter that makes juice to order (the Restaurants row or the petty retailer of snacks row, depending on how you trade), as listed on FoSCoS
- Hawker (itinerant or mobile food vendor) — a sugarcane-juice or fruit-juice cart; Registration with nil fee
- General Manufacturing — bottled, packed or pasteurised juice sold through other outlets; food category 14.1.2 Fruit and vegetable juices
- Retailer (Trade/Retail) — if you only sell sealed juice packs made by someone else
2026 tablePer FSSAI’s table updated 01.04.2026. We confirm your kind of business before filing.
What a juice business has to get right.
Each point comes with the regulation, order or FSSAI document behind it. Where FSSAI hasn’t spelt something out, we say it’s our reading.
"Juice", "nectar" and "fruit drink" are different foods
Chapter 2.3 separates fruit juice (2.3.6), fruit nectar (2.3.9) and fruit beverage or fruit drink (2.3.10). A nectar needs at least 20% fruit juice for most fruits, with a higher figure for some. A fruit drink needs at least 10%, or 5% for lime and lemon. Only a product that meets 2.3.6 can be sold as juice.
FSSR 2011, 2.3.6, 2.3.9, 2.3.10Added sugar changes the name
If the added nutritive sweeteners are more than 15 g per kg, the product has to be labelled "Sweetened juice". Printing "no added sugar" on a sweetened product is a non-addition claim that the Advertising & Claims Regulations don't allow.
FSSR 2011, 2.3.6(8); Advertising & Claims Regulations 2018, reg. 6Potable water, all the time
For registered businesses, Schedule 4 Part I says the water used must be potable, tested at a recognised laboratory at regular intervals where required, and continuously supplied. In our reading that includes the water you make ice from and the water you wash fruit and crushers with.
Schedule 4, Part I, clauses 5 and 6Clean the crusher every day, cover everything
Equipment has to be kept clean, washed, dried and stacked at the close of business, so that mould can't grow. Everything stored or on sale must be fit to eat and properly covered. For a sugarcane crusher or a juicer, that means a daily strip-down, not a rinse.
Schedule 4, Part I, clauses 9 and 17Handlers: aprons, gloves, washed hands
Workers wear clean aprons, gloves and headwear. They keep their nails trimmed and wash their hands with soap before starting work and after using the toilet. Eating, smoking and spitting are not allowed where food is handled.
Schedule 4, Part I, clauses 12, 14 and 16Carts pay nil, but still register
Mobile food vendors pay no Registration fee since 28.09.2024. Vendors registered under the Street Vendors Act 2014 are deemed registered with FSSAI, but they are still bound by the hygiene rules above.
KoB table 01.04.2026, Hawker row (fee waived from 28.09.2024)Bottled juice carries a manufacturer's obligations
Once you bottle, you're a manufacturer. Test your product at least every six months at an FSSAI-notified or NABL lab, follow the microbiological requirements in Appendix B, label to the Labelling & Display Regulations 2020, and file Form D-1 by 31 May if you hold a licence.
Schedule 2, Annexure 3, condition 12; FSSR Appendix B; reg. 2.1.13What you’ll be asked for.
On top of the owner’s photo ID and address proof. FoSCoS asks per kind of business, so we send you the exact list for yours before you gather anything.
Full documents checklist- Photo and address proof, plus proof of the premises or the vending spot
- Street vending certificate under the Street Vendors Act 2014, if you have one (deemed registration)
- Water test report (chemical and bacteriological) for the water and ice you use
- For bottling units: layout plan with operation-wise area allocation, and a list of juicers, pasteurisers and fillers with installed capacity
- For bottling units: Food Safety Management System plan and recall plan (licence applicants)
- Label artwork showing the correct product name (juice, nectar or fruit drink) and "Sweetened" where it applies
The authorities around this business.
FSSAI isn’t the only door you’ll knock on. These are the bodies that usually matter for this kind of business — each links to what it does and when you’ll meet it.
See the full regulatory map
Food Safety and Standards Authority of IndiaFoSCoSCommissioner of Food SafetyDesignated Officer and Food Safety Officers
FSSAI-notified, NABL-accredited food laboratoriesFoSTaC training partnersFSSAI-recognised auditing agenciesAdjudicating Officer and Food Safety Appellate TribunalMunicipal corporation or local bodyCommon mistakes with juice business licences.
A bottle with 10% fruit is a fruit drink under 2.3.10, whatever the picture on the front shows. Selling it as juice misbrands it, with a penalty of up to ₹3 lakh.
A licence covers only the kinds of business written on it. Selling bottled juice wholesale from a juice-bar registration means adding a manufacturing kind of business first.
Most juice-counter complaints trace back to water and ice. Buy or make ice from potable water, and keep the test report.
Every seller on a food-delivery or e-commerce platform needs their own registration, and the listing has to show it.
Your juice business licence in three steps.
Most of the work is ours. Where something needs you, it says so — and nothing is filed without your approval.
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You get a checklist for your business, we check every document, and we file on your own FoSCoS account. The government fee goes from you to FSSAI.
Fixed fee, in writing - 3
We keep you licensed
Fees, returns, tests, medicals, labels and inspections — dated, tracked and handled, with a short status note each month.
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You get the fee before we start. If the scope changes, you hear it from us before it costs you.
We file on your own FoSCoS account with your approval. Nothing to hand back if you ever leave.
Straight to FSSAI on FoSCoS. It never passes through us.
Each requirement comes with the regulation behind it — and our readings are marked as ours.
FSSAI licence for juice business: questions
Is FSSAI license required for a juice shop?
Yes. A juice shop is a food business, so it needs an FSSAI Registration if turnover is up to ₹1.5 crore (₹100 a year), a State Licence up to ₹50 crore (₹5,000) or a Central Licence above that (₹7,500). Operating without one can mean up to six months' imprisonment and a fine of up to ₹5 lakh under section 63 of the FSS Act.
Which FSSAI license is needed for sugarcane juice?
A mobile sugarcane-juice cart registers as a hawker (itinerant or mobile food vendor). The Registration fee has been nil since 28.09.2024. A fixed shop selling sugarcane juice registers under food service at ₹100 a year up to ₹1.5 crore turnover. We haven't found a specific sugarcane-juice standard in Chapter 2.3, so the Schedule 4 hygiene rules do most of the work.
What license is needed to sell bottled fruit juice?
Bottling juice for sale through other outlets is General Manufacturing on FoSCoS, food category 14.1.2, on the turnover bands: Registration to ₹1.5 crore, State Licence to ₹50 crore, Central above. The product must meet 2.3.6 to be called juice. Otherwise it's a nectar (2.3.9) or a fruit drink (2.3.10), with the matching name on the label.
What is the FSSAI registration fee for a juice centre?
₹100 a year to FSSAI for a Registration, and nil for a mobile vendor. There's no renewal any more, but the annual fee has to be paid on time or the registration is deemed suspended. Our fee to file a Registration is ₹4,500 plus GST, and we file on your own FoSCoS login.
What is the difference between juice and fruit drink under FSSAI?
Juice under 2.3.6 is the unfermented liquid pressed or extracted from sound, ripe fruit. A nectar under 2.3.9 needs at least 20% juice for most fruits. A fruit beverage or fruit drink under 2.3.10 needs at least 10%, or 5% for lime and lemon. Juice with more than 15 g/kg of added sweeteners must be labelled "Sweetened juice".
Do I need a separate licence to sell juice on Zomato or Swiggy?
No separate licence, but your own registration must be valid and shown on the listing. The platform holds its own Central Licence, and that doesn't cover you. If you run a juice bar and also deliver, one registration for the premises covers both.
Get your juice business licensed — and keep it that way.
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- Government fee paid by you, directly to FSSAI
- Filed under your own FoSCoS login
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