fresh squeeze Orange Juice vs. Tropicana

[Anonymous]

A.The WF fresh-squeezed juice lasts a lot more than 3 days.
B. Juice comes in difference sizes. Buy a small bottle of the fresh-squeezed for you and your wife, and buy Tropicana for your kids.

[Anonymous]

Make lemons out of lemonade OP and stop being so thrifty. We all need at least one splurge in our lives and OJ is hardly a splurge.

Others have mentioned that OJ is bad for you. It is. Why not compromise for your health? Continue to get the expensive stuff and water it down.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Try Tito’s vodka diluting the Simply Lemonade. Perfect.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yes, drinking/eating processed food isn't bad. But not drinking/eating processed food is better. You don't have to drink OJ that has been dehydrated and then reconstituted. You can get fresh squeezed juice and it is delicious. It is worth the price for us -- we do end up drinking less of it, which is probably healthier, but what we drink is delicious and fresh and hasn't been processed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Try Tito’s vodka diluting the Simply Lemonade. Perfect.

It's hard to pay for Tito's here when it's so cheap in Austin.

[Anonymous]

Florida’s Natural orange juice is my favorite

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Yes, drinking/eating processed food isn't bad. But not drinking/eating processed food is better. You don't have to drink OJ that has been dehydrated and then reconstituted. You can get fresh squeezed juice and it is delicious. It is worth the price for us -- we do end up drinking less of it, which is probably healthier, but what we drink is delicious and fresh and hasn't been processed.

Hahaha you assume those fresh squeezed orange juice dispensers in grocery stores are clean... if you squeeze it yourself, then yes it can taste better. I agree an actual orange is way better for you but if you don’t like them, then juice is an option.

[Anonymous]

pretentious way to get an AM sugar rush. might as well eat a donut for breakfast.