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Excuse my ignorance, but Orange Juice companies put sugar in the orange juice? I'm talking about the 100 percent pure juices like Tropicana. Is this true?
Great episode btw. A lot of discussions on the recent appointed Justice. Lets discuss.
"Oranges are fine. But Orange Juice is just sugar with some added nutrients"
I guess he didnt say they added sugar. Someone else told me they added sugar so I thought thats what he was saying. Ok.
I thought drinking 100 percent Orange Juice is like eating an Orange. So I dont know whats the difference.
The central difference is that in the making of Orange juice is that while nothing maybe added ie. 100% Orange juice a lot of what is in an Orange that people usually eat is taken out. One of the things not taken out is the fruit sugars. The result of which is that Orange juice, because it is missing so much of the original orange, has a much higher amount of sugar per volume because many of the other things that would have been in an orange if you ate it, including much of the stuff that is good for you, were extracted in the juice making process.
The central difference is that in the making of Orange juice is that while nothing maybe added ie. 100% Orange juice a lot of what is in an Orange that people usually eat is taken out. One of the things not taken out is the fruit sugars. The result of which is that Orange juice, because it is missing so much of the original orange, has a much higher amount of sugar per volume because many of the other things that would have been in an orange if you ate it, including much of the stuff that is good for you, were extracted in the juice making process.
Yeah, but other than fiber, what is this "other stuff"? The Vitamin C is still intact.
Alisa Hamilton author of the forthcoming book "Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice,", provides some insight in a Q&A with Boston.com
HAMILTON: It's a heavily processed product. It's heavily engineered as well. In the process of pasteurizing, juice is heated and stripped of oxygen, a process called deaeration, so it doesn't oxidize. Then it's put in huge storage tanks where it can be kept for upwards of a year. It gets stripped of flavor-providing chemicals, which are volatile. When it's ready for packaging, companies such as Tropicana hire flavor companies such as Firmenich to engineer flavor packs to make it taste fresh. People think not-from-concentrate is a fresher product, but it also sits in storage for quite a long time.
IDEAS: What goes into these flavor packs?
HAMILTON: They're technically made from orange-derived substances, essence and oils. Flavor companies break down the essence and oils into individual chemicals and recombine them. I spoke to many people in the industry at Firmenich, different flavorists, and at Tropicana, and what you're getting looks nothing like the original substance. To call it natural at this point is a real stretch.
You know, the more I think about it, OJ from a carton seems to have a heavier taste and feel and seems more concentrated than fresh-squeezed. But taste-wise, that's the only difference to me.
You know, the more I think about it, OJ from a carton seems to have a heavier taste and feel and seems more concentrated than fresh-squeezed.
And you people are JUST figuring this out thanks to Bill Maher's show?
God help us.
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