Fresh, nutritious, cheap - new-age juice machines serve joy

Whenever she passes by some malls in Beijing, Du Ni, 28, a bank employee in Beijing, buys a cup of fresh orange juice from an automated vending machine.

"My husband likes the juice. It's priced around 10 yuan ($1.5) per cup - really cheap and fresh. I think such orange juice has quality and is safer than that extracted from manually operated machines. I can also see the process of juice extraction. I'd try other fruit juices, whenever they become available through such vending machines," Du said.

Vingoo Juice, a brand that developed the first automated orange juice vending machine in the world five years ago, now takes about 50 percent of the niche market share in China.