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Orange Juice's 'Secret Ingredient' Worries Some Health-Minded Moms
ABC News ^ | December 16, 2011 | Susan Donaldson James

Posted on 12/17/2011 6:14:19 PM PST by decimon

Natalya Murakhver, a New York food writer and mother of an 18-month year old daughter, loved her premium brand orange juice -- the "100 percent pure" and "not from concentrate" kind that comes in the colorful carton and tastes consistently delicious.

That is, until she said she learned from her first-time moms group that there's a "secret ingredient" in all premium orange juices that companies are not required to put on their labeling.

Now, after writing Whole Foods, she refuses to buy her favorite, "365" juice, amid uncertainty about its contents.

"One of the moms said she had read about [how the juice is made] and they held it in tanks for up to a year and it pretty much lost all of its flavor and had to be reinvigorated with these flavor packs, which are essentially chemicals," said Murakhver, 40, and co-author of "They Eat What?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from around the World."

For the last 30 years, the citrus industry has used flavor packs to process what the Food and Drug Administration identifies as "pasteurized" orange juice. That includes top brands such as Tropicana, Minute Maid, Simply Orange and Florida Natural, among others.

Murakhver said the addition of the flavor packs long after orange juice is stored actually makes those premium juices more like a concentrate, and consumers need to know that.

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: davidfenton; depopulation; fentoncommunications; genocide; honey; malthusian; oj; ojflavorpackets; orangejuice; poison
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To: USMCWife6869
You may be interested in this article about commercial honey.

Are you sure the person you are buying the honey from, is actually extracting, spinning and straining it him/herself?

If you are. Great! Mass market stuff, not so much.

121 posted on 12/18/2011 4:00:43 AM PST by Daffynition ( *Socialism, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore it*)
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To: tiki

I heard you want to find a source of honey produced as close to where you live as possible so it contains pollens you would be exposed to. Helps with allergies.


122 posted on 12/18/2011 4:37:12 AM PST by Elderberry
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To: bayouranger

Lol


123 posted on 12/18/2011 4:39:53 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: melissa_in_ga
Natural sugars found in fruits aren’t necessarily bad for you, especially consumed in moderation. The sugars in processed food, however, are nasty

So much ignorance, so little time.......
124 posted on 12/18/2011 5:16:19 AM PST by WackySam (Obama got Osama just like Nixon landed on the moon.)
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To: decimon

I worked at Citrus World (formerly known as Donald Duck Plant) in Lake Wales, FL for years. It now produces Florida’s Natural and various restaurant commercial brands. They cook that stuff at high temps for the pasteurization process. The gawd awful smells travels for miles. They dump all kinds of stuff back in it because the high temp kills any original orange juice flavor. Oh, and when no-one is looking, lots of sugar! I won’t drink concentrate or anything from a box or plastic jug if I don’t squeeze it myself!


125 posted on 12/18/2011 5:20:19 AM PST by poobear (Facts, the TURD in the punchbowl of Liberal thought!)
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To: momtothree
Is it? I would actually prefer to buy the frozen concentrate simply because you can make it when you need to (that is, I keep it in the freezer and try to buy it on sale).

Frozen concentrate is made from freshly squeezed juice. Because it's frozen so soon after processing (the concentration), there is less time for oxidation and vitamin loss.
126 posted on 12/18/2011 5:37:25 AM PST by aruanan
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To: exDemMom; goat granny; Daffynition; Elderberry

The best tasting honey that I have ever encountered was labeled as being from poison oak (this was many years ago, in Oregon). I don’t know if eating this honey would produce an allergic reaction, as I seem to be immune to poison oak, or at least have never had a reaction during some 30 years of playing, hunting, and working in the woods of Western Oregon. Should have tried some out on my eldest brother, who will break out if you show him a reasonably accurate drawing of a poison oak leaf.


127 posted on 12/18/2011 5:39:35 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: decimon

Paranoia and irrational fear kills

The quest for a threat free life is unjustified. Those who don’t build immunity will be subject to death by an attack from out of the blue.

Living “Monks” life will kill you


128 posted on 12/18/2011 5:50:37 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: aruanan

Thank you, Aruanan. I am sticking with the frozen. It is just way more convenient for me and it is a bonus that there is less oxidation and vitamin loss!


129 posted on 12/18/2011 6:00:24 AM PST by momtothree
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To: goat granny

“... made great orange cookies that called for zest...”

You can add orange or lemon zest to cheesecake as well. YUM..... cheesecake!


130 posted on 12/18/2011 6:02:36 AM PST by momtothree
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To: Elderberry
Being as we live in citrus country, we juiced a ton last spring, and still probably have four or five frozen quart containers floating around the freezers.

We've got two varieties of orange, two varieties of grapefruit and one tangerine.

131 posted on 12/18/2011 6:09:33 AM PST by ErnBatavia (Obama Voters: Jose Baez wants YOU for his next jury pool.......)
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To: Semper911

I told him to leave my oj tree alone, and when I came back from work, he turned my oj tree into a joshua tree, the oj tree never came back.


132 posted on 12/18/2011 6:46:20 AM PST by television is just wrong
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To: ErnBatavia

I have one Satsuma tree about 20 years old. A grapefruit I planted about 4 years ago. And this spring I planted another tangerine and a navel orange I picked up at the tree sale at the U of H. I can’t wait until they start producing. This is my first year I’ve gotten any meaningful grapefruit.

This year was so dry. My Satsuma has a full crop, but they are smaller than usual. I just couldn’t water it enough with water restrictions and all in Houston.


133 posted on 12/18/2011 7:19:09 AM PST by Elderberry
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To: exDemMom

Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.
Several members of my family have admitted that they like eating orange peels.

Citrus zest is used in a lot of recipes.

It has sparked my interest. I may try it myself.


134 posted on 12/18/2011 7:22:20 AM PST by Elderberry
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To: Royal Wulff

“Calcium sulfate is gypsum is wallboard.”

It’s also the natural feature, White Sands National Monument. So it’s used in wallboard too? Never going back to White Sands! Too dangerous!


135 posted on 12/18/2011 7:41:39 AM PST by DBrow
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To: decimon

This is nothing but an alarmist article as after 7 paragraphs it still did not even mention what the additive is they are talking about.


136 posted on 12/18/2011 7:48:43 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: CodeToad

Because they are not adding anything.


137 posted on 12/18/2011 8:48:28 AM PST by DBrow
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To: Daffynition
I said...apple cider...*not* apple juice.

I've tasted both, and cannot tell the difference. Both are vile liquids that bear no resemblance whatsoever to apples.

138 posted on 12/18/2011 9:38:17 AM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Love your sense of humor about your brother LOL. Have a Merry Christmas and healthy happy New Year. GG


139 posted on 12/18/2011 9:38:31 AM PST by goat granny
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To: momtothree

That sounds like a good idea...yummy...GG


140 posted on 12/18/2011 9:40:25 AM PST by goat granny
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