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Orange Juice Is A Hot Commodity During The Coronavirus
NPR ^ | March 27, 2020 | Avie Schneider

Posted on 03/29/2020 6:06:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Orange juice is suddenly hot.

In the commodity markets, frozen concentrate orange juice futures have soared 25% — just in the past month. (Yes, you're thinking of the comedy Trading Places.)

"People understand that orange juice is a great source of vitamin C and clearly vitamin C boosts your immune system," said Andrew Meadows, director of communications at Florida Citrus Mutual, a growers' trade group. "We're now in a time where people want to have a strong immune system. I think that's what's happening."

That's even though there's no evidence that vitamin C is effective against the coronavirus. But industry officials say that people looking to increase their vitamin C intake have been boosting OJ sales.

Sales jumped nearly 10% in the four weeks that ended March 14 compared with a year earlier, according to Nielsen data provided by the Florida Department of Citrus. Frozen OJ sales soared 27%. That's a big turnaround from the prior report for February, which showed overall OJ sales down 2% and frozen juice down 1.3%.

And demand is outpacing the supply, said Marisa Zansler, director of economic and market research at the Florida Department of Citrus.

"The unforeseen and significant increase in the demand for orange juice exceeded the current supply of orange juice on the U.S. market in recent weeks," Zansler said in an email. "The rise in the futures price is certainly indicative of the higher cost to supply the sudden spike in demand."

Meadows emphasized that the industry has not been marketing around the coronavirus.

"We're not trying to capitalize on this," he said. "We wouldn't do that. ... But it is beneficial to us, it is heartening to us that people still understand that orange juice is a great source of vitamin C."

The good news for growers comes at a challenging time for the citrus industry. Florida growers have been battling citrus greening, canker and other plant diseases for years. And orange juice has been squeezed by competition from sports and energy drinks, bottled water and exotic juice blends, Meadows said.


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; orangejuice
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To: nickcarraway

Lived in Lake County and got a whiff of the Minute Maid plant in Leesburg. Now I drink “Sunny D”.


21 posted on 03/29/2020 6:36:59 PM PDT by SanchoP (Living your life in fear is merely existing. You might as well be dead already.)
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To: DarthVader

Up it to 2,000 fall and winter. Great results.
Of course staying away from certain situations has helped.
I believe in Vit C. Too many oranges to get that much C.


22 posted on 03/29/2020 6:50:43 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

That is why I’m using the tablet.


23 posted on 03/29/2020 7:00:05 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: nickcarraway

I noticed frozen OJ was sold out a week ago. Found some recently.

It’s a backup for the Simply Orange...which works great in mimosas!


24 posted on 03/29/2020 7:04:36 PM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: nickcarraway

Hell it’s hard to find phoney Orange Juice. My nearly 92 year old father loves his SunnyD. Nowhere to be found unless you are into 3x online markup. I finally found Amazon 3rd party SunnyD powder mix for a decent price but it is still a week plus out for delivery.


25 posted on 03/29/2020 7:46:31 PM PDT by DAC21 ( and Naflet had demint)
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TANG!


26 posted on 03/29/2020 8:09:13 PM PDT by nevadapatriot
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To: nickcarraway

What about Pork Bellies?


27 posted on 03/29/2020 8:09:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

Mortimer!!


28 posted on 03/29/2020 8:10:33 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: Kenny Bania

The usual wager?


29 posted on 03/29/2020 8:12:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Cboldt
Every store I go to jumps from Biotin to Calcium with a half dozen versions of Vitamin C missing.

But Sam's club had a pile of Charmin megapacks. I had to scoot past a chatty family taking up way more than their share of an aisle when one saw it in my cart and said "Is that toilet paper?". When I said there was a lot in the last aisle they all literally sprinted off like it was going to run out in the thirty seconds it took to get back there.

30 posted on 03/29/2020 8:17:09 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Newton invented calculus when the plague shut down Cambridge. What will you do with your time off?)
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To: nickcarraway

Here we go. From Orthomolecular:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Feb 28, 2020
Vitamin C and COVID-19 Coronavirus
by Damien Downing, MBBS, MRSB and Gert Schuitemaker, PhD

(OMNS February 28, 2020) There is only one existing treatment for the new coronavirus: vitamin C.

Vitamin C supports your immune system.
Vitamin C helps to kill the virus and reduces the symptoms of infection.
It’s not a COVID “cure,” but nothing is.
It might just save your life, though, and will definitely reduce the severity of the infection.

If someone tells you it’s not proven, consider two things:

Nothing is proven to work against COVID-19, because it is a new virus.
Vitamin C has worked against every single virus including influenzas, pneumonia, and even poliomyelitis.

What to do

If you do nothing else, start taking vitamin C right away; at least 3 grams a day, spread right across the day. That’s a 1,000 milligram capsule every 8 hours, or a level teaspoon of powder dissolved in a pint or so of water, drank all through the day.

If you’re smart and motivated, do all the other things recommended in our previous release Vitamin C Protects Against Coronavirus (http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n04.shtml)

When and if you catch a bug that might be COVID-19, simply increase your vitamin C intake: a rounded teaspoon (that’s 4 to 5 grams) in water (which helps to keep you hydrated) every 3 or 4 hours. And keep on taking it.

Do you consult a doctor? Do you self-isolate? Yes and yes. Of course you do; that’s your duty to others.

Vitamin C and the other measures are what you do for yourself.

These links provide a large number of references to back up our above statements:

Feb 21, 2020 Three Intravenous Vitamin C Research Studies Approved for Treating COVID-19
Feb 16, 2020 Early Large Dose Intravenous Vitamin C is the Treatment of Choice for 2019-nCov Pneumonia
Feb 13, 2020 Coronavirus Patients in China to be Treated with High-Dose Vitamin C
Feb 10, 2020 VITAMIN C AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE TREATMENT OF nCoV CORONAVIRUS: How Vitamin C Reduces Severity and Deaths from Serious Viral Respiratory Diseases
Feb 2, 2020 Hospital-based Intravenous Vitamin C Treatment for Coronavirus and Related Illnesses
Jan 30, 2020 Nutritional Treatment of Coronavirus
Jan 26, 2020 Vitamin C Protects Against Coronavirus


31 posted on 03/29/2020 8:51:57 PM PDT by Norski
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To: DarthVader
"Get 1000 mg tablets they work great."

That's sort of like saying sleep is the best cure for insomnia.

32 posted on 03/29/2020 11:22:33 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Thank God our country now has a GREAT AMERICAN President !!!)
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To: nickcarraway
"People understand that orange juice is a great source of vitamin C and clearly vitamin C boosts your immune system," said Andrew Meadows,

An extraordinary triumph of marketing.

Something super high in Vitamin C and fiber, with zero sugar, is growing in my garden: parsley!

Growing like mad, actually: it loves a day of rain followed by two or three days of heat and sunshine.

33 posted on 03/30/2020 2:24:54 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Scapegoating is a textbook coping mechanism.)
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To: jdsteel

Have you tried pineapple mimosas? They’re even better.


34 posted on 03/30/2020 6:21:53 AM PDT by sheana
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To: sheana

“ Have you tried pineapple mimosas?“

Not....YET.


35 posted on 03/30/2020 7:03:21 AM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: jdsteel

I love champagne and drink it all the time. Love me some mimosas too. But I’m hooked on pineapple mimosas. Had never even thought about it before but a friend who owns a restaurant started serving them years ago. Haven’t had an oj mimosa since. lol


36 posted on 03/30/2020 7:21:25 AM PDT by sheana
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To: nickcarraway

I always drink orange juice everyday to ward off scurvy. It’s worked like a charm. I used to drink gin and tonic to ward off malaria. That seemed to work also but I ended up an alcoholic. /s


37 posted on 03/30/2020 9:37:24 AM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: Tax-chick

Parsley is one of the best sources of apigenin and that is a very interesting nutrient, possibly much more significant than the wonderful vitamin C.


38 posted on 03/30/2020 12:19:11 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Thank God our country now has a GREAT AMERICAN President !!!)
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To: matthew fuller

Oh, I’ll have to look that up. We planted the parsley when we moved here, almost 17 years ago. Black Swallowtale caterpillars love it. Some years they eat it down to bare sticks and nubs, but it always comes back once they pupate.


39 posted on 03/30/2020 1:07:49 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Scapegoating is a textbook coping mechanism.)
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To: matthew fuller

Not at all. Vitamin C boosts your immune system by stimulating the production of antibodies which kill pathogens. A increased concentration in your system sustains the antibody production process.


40 posted on 03/30/2020 2:23:56 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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