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OJ not pure
On Jan 6, 7:57*pm, "Kent" > wrote:
> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> > There is always someone tinkering with our food
> >http://c****chdog.com/misc/premium-o...0-percent-pure
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> > It's a shocker, I know, folks but buying premium orange juice is
> > carton is not any purer than buying frozen concentrated OJ, unless the
> > cartons are from Whole Foods' 365 brand.
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> > ABC News's Susan Donaldson James blew the whistle on most premium
> > juices in her recent story revealing that cartons contain secret
> > ingredients - flavor packs - that are not required to be disclosed.
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> > "After oranges are picked, they are shipped off to be processed. They
> > are squeezed and pasteurized and, if they are not bound for frozen
> > concentrate, are kept in aseptic storage, which involves stripping the
> > juice of oxygen in a process called "deaeration," and kept in
> > million-gallon tanks for up to a year," the article says.
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> > "Before packaging and shipping, the juice is then jazzed up with an
> > added flavor pack, gleaned from orange byproducts such as the peel and
> > pulp, to compensate for the loss of taste and aroma during the heating
> > process. Different brands use different flavor packs to give their
> > product its unique and always consistent taste. Minute Maid, for
> > example, has a distinctive candy-sweet flavor.
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> > "Kristen Gunter, executive director of the Florida Citrus Processors
> > Association, confirmed that juices are blended and stored and that
> > flavor packs are added to pasteurized juice before shipping to
> > stores."
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> Trader Joe's *"not from concentrate OJ" at $2.99 is the deal of the century.
> It's worth a detour.
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Whole Food's 365 NFC OJ was priced the same, I thought
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