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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: decimon

A first time Mom’s group?

Hysterical.

We used to call it getting together for coffee.

What’s next-——a mother of two group?

A mother of boys group?


41 posted on 12/17/2011 7:16:30 PM PST by Mears (Alcohol. Tobacco. Firearms. What's not to like?)
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To: Joe 6-pack

haha. oh darlin’, i am so in love :). too bad i put down the bottle for an AA schedule. lol.


42 posted on 12/17/2011 7:16:47 PM PST by GOP Poet (Time for Bambi and his commie crew to go.)
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To: Signalman

Agree.... Comes already packaged an everything !


43 posted on 12/17/2011 7:20:40 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Mears

oh no! Now you’ve go me curious. damn it. i may just have to read this article now or scan it more closely. that would jeopardize a 5 year non reading record though. lol.


44 posted on 12/17/2011 7:21:31 PM PST by GOP Poet (Time for Bambi and his commie crew to go.)
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To: GOP Poet

I’ve got nothing against honestly earned profit. A company should earn a profit for it’s efforts.

But I do have something against companies that call their products, ‘quality products’, when they really aren’t, like lead-lined toys from China and forgetting to tell consumers that their kids will play with them and possibly get poisoned from it.

I just can’t imagine why anybody would have any concerns about that or other things, like food that cannot really be defined as such in the nutritional sense.

Give me an honest product and an honest price. I’d rather pay a higher price knowing the product I’m buying won’t kill me if I use it as directed.


45 posted on 12/17/2011 7:22:41 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: decimon

Vodka is my favorite secret ingredient in orange juice.


46 posted on 12/17/2011 7:23:15 PM PST by MadJack ("Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." (Afghan proverb))
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To: GOP Poet
"...too bad i put down the bottle for an AA schedule. lol."

Me too :-)

47 posted on 12/17/2011 7:23:45 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: BreezyDog

Dihydrogen Monoxide.


48 posted on 12/17/2011 7:24:49 PM PST by irishtenor (Everything in moderation, however, too much whiskey is just enough... Mark Twain)
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To: Joe 6-pack

“... secret ingredient in my OJ was vodka”.

I remember the drink “Fuzzy Navels”... barely. You added Peach Schnapps to orange juice and the drink tasted like the syrup from jarred peaches. The most deceptive drink I ever tried.... (and I won’t say anymore!)


49 posted on 12/17/2011 7:26:03 PM PST by momtothree
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To: Jonty30

see i don’t even go there. i just stick my hand into the local beehive like Pooh Bear and slap it on a piece of Wonderbread. :-D.


50 posted on 12/17/2011 7:26:20 PM PST by GOP Poet (Time for Bambi and his commie crew to go.)
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To: Jonty30

“now, unfortunately, if you read the labels, what is called juice can be more accurately called drink, “

Um, No.

They don’t call it juice. They will call it something else, like a drink or a cocktail or punch, but they do not and are not allowed to call it juice. Unless it is indeed juice.

The labels are clear, and the article is just alarmist BS.

It looks to me that someone is trying to manipulate orange juice commodity trading.

Enjoy your orange JUICE. It isn’t going to hurt you. (It IS however made of a lot of chemical compounds, which if listed would make most idiots run away. The TREE makes it that way)

Anybody remember the “Alar” scare that damn near bankrupted the apple growers? That turned out to be BS too.

Food processors are NOT out to kill us. There really wouldn’t be a point in that.


51 posted on 12/17/2011 7:27:03 PM PST by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: melissa_in_ga

Trust me, throw the juicer away. Juice is bad for you, especially oj, full of sugar. Eat the whole fruit or vegetable.


52 posted on 12/17/2011 7:30:07 PM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: momtothree
"I remember the drink “Fuzzy Navels”... barely...The most deceptive drink I ever tried.... (and I won’t say anymore!)

Is that how you became, "momtothree"? ;^)

53 posted on 12/17/2011 7:30:38 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: decimon

They take certain volatiles out to store the juice, then add them back in later. They are not adding weird stuff to the OJ.

I buy Valencias and juice them, mostly, but this news does not put me off storebought juice at all. In fact, if they distill off some of the bitter oils, the OJ probably will taste sweeter.


54 posted on 12/17/2011 7:30:50 PM PST by DBrow
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To: Jonty30

“Give me an honest product and an honest price.”

Megabump for a breath of fresh air! Profiteering at all costs isn’t conservatism. And to delve into the issue even further, the consumers are paying for a product that’s marketed as natural without any additives. If chemicals are a part of the product then the company is committing fraud. Folks should be upset when that happens. Or to put it another way, if I buy what is advertised as a F-150, I’m going to pissed if the manufacturer forgets to mention that its really just a reconfigured Yugo.


55 posted on 12/17/2011 7:32:03 PM PST by KantianBurke (Where was the Tea Party when Dubya was spending like a drunken sailor?)
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To: Nik Naym

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.

Just eat a tomato that’s been sitting in your fridge for the past two months and get back to me as to how confident you are that you’ve chowed down on a some vitamins and minerals.


56 posted on 12/17/2011 7:32:50 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: mylife
At least it's not "Purple Drank".
57 posted on 12/17/2011 7:35:49 PM PST by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: decimon

Lady, buy a juicer. Then you can let let one of the members of the new moms club (jeez, my mom had a group when I was growing up) get you to worry about something else.


58 posted on 12/17/2011 7:36:13 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (If we stay home in November '12... Don't complain if 0 shreds the constitution!!!)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Bwahahhaahha! You are such a hoot, Joe. No... this was back in my college days before I got responsible! My poor Mom never did figure out why I would turn green and gag when she served canned peaches after that though!


59 posted on 12/17/2011 7:37:00 PM PST by momtothree
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To: hinckley buzzard

you know, just because someone has a concern, whether it is justified or not, is no reason to call this mom an “idiot”.


60 posted on 12/17/2011 7:38:15 PM PST by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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