fresh squeeze Orange Juice vs. Tropicana

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those prices sound very high.

We buy Simply Orange. 59oz is $3.99 when it's not on sale, but can be as low as $2.50 on sale.

We LOVE the Simply line - also the lemonades. And OP, these taste GREAT and are very sweet so depending upon our want in-the-moment, we pour about 3/4 of a glass and fill the rest with water... really good and much less $$.

[Anonymous]

When I squeeze my own juice at home, I always wash the outside of the oranges (or whatever fruit I'm juicing) so any dirt on the outside doesn't get into the juice. I don't use soap or anything, just a good rinse and wipe down with a paper towel.

I have noticed at Whole Foods that they just dump a case of oranges into the juicing machine and they don't look very clean. I doubt there's much on there that will make me sick, but I find it unappealing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I squeeze my own juice at home, I always wash the outside of the oranges (or whatever fruit I'm juicing) so any dirt on the outside doesn't get into the juice. I don't use soap or anything, just a good rinse and wipe down with a paper towel.

I have noticed at Whole Foods that they just dump a case of oranges into the juicing machine and they don't look very clean. I doubt there's much on there that will make me sick, but I find it unappealing.

Smart!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those prices sound very high.

We buy Simply Orange. 59oz is $3.99 when it's not on sale, but can be as low as $2.50 on sale.

We LOVE the Simply line - also the lemonades. And OP, these taste GREAT and are very sweet so depending upon our want in-the-moment, we pour about 3/4 of a glass and fill the rest with water... really good and much less $$.

I use rum to dilute as needed, but to each there own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your wife's an idiot. Tropicana orange juice has zero preservatives or additives. It is, however, pasteurized which means it has been heat treated to kill any microbes. (Unpasteurized juices have led to many disease outbreaks in this country.) While pasteurization may affect the flavor some, it does not affect any health benefits of the juice.

The only benefit of fresh squeezed juice is that it tastes a lot better. But, because it isn't pasteurized it will go bad much more quickly than the pre-packaged juices. It will probably start tasting funky after 3 days or so.

Did you know that:

Let’s start with the obvious: oranges only grow in certain seasons, and because orange juice goes bad after a short period of time, orange juice providers had to come up with a way of storing the juice if they weren’t going to go with the old school method of freezing juice in concentrate. What they came up with is a process called “deaeration,” in which the oranges are picked, the oranges are squeezed, the juice is heated to eliminate bacteria, and then the juice is kept in vast, zillion-gallon tanks from which oxygen is eliminated. This allows the juice to not spoil for up to a year. The downside to this process is that the juice loses its taste, so when the juice is ready to be packaged for consumption, flavor packets are added to give it its consistent, “pure,” orangey taste. Fragrance companies responsible for the same formulas used for perfumes come up with the right taste concoctions that you and I know as orange juice[u].

I am pretty sure I do not want to ingest those flavor packets

This is interesting. What do the flavor packets contain and why aren't they listed in the ingredients? It's not that I don't believe you, I really want to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those prices sound very high.

We buy Simply Orange. 59oz is $3.99 when it's not on sale, but can be as low as $2.50 on sale.

We LOVE the Simply line - also the lemonades. And OP, these taste GREAT and are very sweet so depending upon our want in-the-moment, we pour about 3/4 of a glass and fill the rest with water... really good and much less $$.

I use rum to dilute as needed, but to each there own.

Even SMARTER

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your wife's an idiot. Tropicana orange juice has zero preservatives or additives. It is, however, pasteurized which means it has been heat treated to kill any microbes. (Unpasteurized juices have led to many disease outbreaks in this country.) While pasteurization may affect the flavor some, it does not affect any health benefits of the juice.

The only benefit of fresh squeezed juice is that it tastes a lot better. But, because it isn't pasteurized it will go bad much more quickly than the pre-packaged juices. It will probably start tasting funky after 3 days or so.

Did you know that:

Let’s start with the obvious: oranges only grow in certain seasons, and because orange juice goes bad after a short period of time, orange juice providers had to come up with a way of storing the juice if they weren’t going to go with the old school method of freezing juice in concentrate. What they came up with is a process called “deaeration,” in which the oranges are picked, the oranges are squeezed, the juice is heated to eliminate bacteria, and then the juice is kept in vast, zillion-gallon tanks from which oxygen is eliminated. This allows the juice to not spoil for up to a year. The downside to this process is that the juice loses its taste, so when the juice is ready to be packaged for consumption, flavor packets are added to give it its consistent, “pure,” orangey taste. Fragrance companies responsible for the same formulas used for perfumes come up with the right taste concoctions that you and I know as orange juice[u].

I am pretty sure I do not want to ingest those flavor packets

This is interesting. What do the flavor packets contain and why aren't they listed in the ingredients? It's not that I don't believe you, I really want to know.

it is not listed because "“The Food and Drug Administration does not require adding flavor packs to the labeling of pasteurized juice".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your wife's an idiot. Tropicana orange juice has zero preservatives or additives. It is, however, pasteurized which means it has been heat treated to kill any microbes. (Unpasteurized juices have led to many disease outbreaks in this country.) While pasteurization may affect the flavor some, it does not affect any health benefits of the juice.

The only benefit of fresh squeezed juice is that it tastes a lot better. But, because it isn't pasteurized it will go bad much more quickly than the pre-packaged juices. It will probably start tasting funky after 3 days or so.

Did you know that:

Let’s start with the obvious: oranges only grow in certain seasons, and because orange juice goes bad after a short period of time, orange juice providers had to come up with a way of storing the juice if they weren’t going to go with the old school method of freezing juice in concentrate. What they came up with is a process called “deaeration,” in which the oranges are picked, the oranges are squeezed, the juice is heated to eliminate bacteria, and then the juice is kept in vast, zillion-gallon tanks from which oxygen is eliminated. This allows the juice to not spoil for up to a year. The downside to this process is that the juice loses its taste, so when the juice is ready to be packaged for consumption, flavor packets are added to give it its consistent, “pure,” orangey taste. Fragrance companies responsible for the same formulas used for perfumes come up with the right taste concoctions that you and I know as orange juice[u].

I am pretty sure I do not want to ingest those flavor packets

This is interesting. What do the flavor packets contain and why aren't they listed in the ingredients? It's not that I don't believe you, I really want to know.

I googled and found the same series of articles that the pp is clearly quoting from (the articles were almost word for word the same as each other). The flavor that is added back in is basically orange oil extracted from orange peel which smells amazing as we all know. Because it comes from the orange, it is part of the 100% orange juice ingredient. When oranges are squeezed by hand, this orange oil winds up in the juice naturally as the rind is pressed into the fruit. There is no mysterious chemical "packet" that is dumped into the juice. It is all part of the fruit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your wife's an idiot. Tropicana orange juice has zero preservatives or additives. It is, however, pasteurized which means it has been heat treated to kill any microbes. (Unpasteurized juices have led to many disease outbreaks in this country.) While pasteurization may affect the flavor some, it does not affect any health benefits of the juice.

The only benefit of fresh squeezed juice is that it tastes a lot better. But, because it isn't pasteurized it will go bad much more quickly than the pre-packaged juices. It will probably start tasting funky after 3 days or so.

Did you know that:

Let’s start with the obvious: oranges only grow in certain seasons, and because orange juice goes bad after a short period of time, orange juice providers had to come up with a way of storing the juice if they weren’t going to go with the old school method of freezing juice in concentrate. What they came up with is a process called “deaeration,” in which the oranges are picked, the oranges are squeezed, the juice is heated to eliminate bacteria, and then the juice is kept in vast, zillion-gallon tanks from which oxygen is eliminated. This allows the juice to not spoil for up to a year. The downside to this process is that the juice loses its taste, so when the juice is ready to be packaged for consumption, flavor packets are added to give it its consistent, “pure,” orangey taste. Fragrance companies responsible for the same formulas used for perfumes come up with the right taste concoctions that you and I know as orange juice[u].

I am pretty sure I do not want to ingest those flavor packets

This is interesting. What do the flavor packets contain and why aren't they listed in the ingredients? It's not that I don't believe you, I really want to know.

it is not listed because "“The Food and Drug Administration does not require adding flavor packs to the labeling of pasteurized juice".

That is incorrect. There is no conspiracy. They simply add orange oil back into the juice to make it smell better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your wife's an idiot. Tropicana orange juice has zero preservatives or additives. It is, however, pasteurized which means it has been heat treated to kill any microbes. (Unpasteurized juices have led to many disease outbreaks in this country.) While pasteurization may affect the flavor some, it does not affect any health benefits of the juice.

The only benefit of fresh squeezed juice is that it tastes a lot better. But, because it isn't pasteurized it will go bad much more quickly than the pre-packaged juices. It will probably start tasting funky after 3 days or so.

Did you know that:

Let’s start with the obvious: oranges only grow in certain seasons, and because orange juice goes bad after a short period of time, orange juice providers had to come up with a way of storing the juice if they weren’t going to go with the old school method of freezing juice in concentrate. What they came up with is a process called “deaeration,” in which the oranges are picked, the oranges are squeezed, the juice is heated to eliminate bacteria, and then the juice is kept in vast, zillion-gallon tanks from which oxygen is eliminated. This allows the juice to not spoil for up to a year. The downside to this process is that the juice loses its taste, so when the juice is ready to be packaged for consumption, flavor packets are added to give it its consistent, “pure,” orangey taste. Fragrance companies responsible for the same formulas used for perfumes come up with the right taste concoctions that you and I know as orange juice[u].

I am pretty sure I do not want to ingest those flavor packets

This is interesting. What do the flavor packets contain and why aren't they listed in the ingredients? It's not that I don't believe you, I really want to know.

Pretty sure the flavor packets are concentrated juice. So, they aren’t zillion gallons tanks they are stainless steel process tanks ( the same type of tanks that contain vaccine buffers, btw) and the product is tested to ensure it is safe for consumption. Lots of food moves through process tanks, so unless you are going to stop eating everything processed I wouldn’t really be concerned.

[Anonymous]

Eat the oranges and skip the juice.

[Anonymous]

I wonder how often Whole Foods cleans those juicing machines. I think they're an outbreak waiting to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how often Whole Foods cleans those juicing machines. I think they're an outbreak waiting to happen.

Do you eat out? If you do, someone with cold, flu or a cut on their hand serving your food.

[Anonymous]

Go out to the suburbs and you can get freshly squeezed juice at Sam’s Club for way cheaper than Whole Foods. They’ll even let you try a sample first.

Nobody should be drinking that much orange juice. You might as well be eating sugar out of the bag.

[Anonymous]

OJ is really bad for your teeth. Pure sugar.