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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I can’t help myself, if my sense of conservatism has a dash of morality behind it. :)
Beat me to it.
“It may not be a drink, in a literal sense, but if it’s sitting in vats for months on end, the nutritional value is greatly reduced, possibly to nothingness.”
That isn’t true either.
For one thing, “sitting in vats” is a statement far removed from reality. If they are storing it, you can bet it is stored in TANKS. Which are sealed. Do you actually think there are open vats of juice sitting around a warehouse somewhere for months at a time? Do you realize how silly that sounds to any thinking person?
There is a LEGAL definition of juice. You CAN NOT, by law, sell mixtures of juices and flavored water and sugar or anything else like that as “Juice”. If it says “Juice” on the label, it IS juice. Unless somebody is doing something illegal.
And as far as tomatoes go, I wouldn’t eat one right out the garden. Tomatoes make me puke. Maybe I should start a rumor that they are poisonous. (I could list the chemical compounds they contain, and scare the bejeepers out of all the non-thinking idiots running around this country.)
There is NOTHING like fresh squoze OJ
When I go to Florida I squeeze juice like crazy for breakfast lunch and dinner- I can’t get enough
Natural sugars found in fruits aren’t necessarily bad for you, especially consumed in moderation. The sugars in processed food, however, are nasty
Wait till these people find out that almost all apple juice comes from China...
Awesome!! I should have known with your screen name. :) I thank God for both of us. I swear we Freepers in recovery should all try to meet at some preplanned meetings someday. Or just meet for some coffee--you know what they say about two drunks and a pot of coffee. :) (my honey is also sober.) How cool would that be? Take care my FRiend and may God continue to bless you and yours.
put it in a blender and it’s ounce for ounce
Buy local. The Menonites have some great local honey in my locale
Yep, I always found it curious that FR was established during the Clinton administration when it turns out there are so many friends of Bill around here ;-)
The Hutterites in my area probably make honey.
haha. i hadn’t quite thought of it that way but that is darn clever!! :-) Yeah. I can just see the FR crew at a table at the meeting after the meeting—meek crowd . . . NOT!!!
It’s gotta be tough to be Amish and have to collect honey. No gloves, no beekeeping equipment.
Just the local lake to dive into, when things go bad.
Yummy! Partially hydrogenated oils! One of two things that cancer feeds off of!
I heard from the camp counselor that the ingredient is salt peter.
The FDA might have something to do with it. The gubbmint needs to dip its hand in the till, too.
Next thing you know these folks will panic because they will discover that there are flavor paks of dried orange juice in Tang. OMG!
The Alar scare was created by a company called Fenton Communications... and they are probably involved in this OJ scare too.
Most dangerous stuff in the universe. You could die just by injesting it. It falls out of the sky and kills.
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