Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> There is always someone tinkering with our food
> http://c****chdog.com/misc/premium-o...0-percent-pure
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> “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.
>
> “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.
>
> “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.”

Erm. So, if you aren't getting an organic product, you are
getting the chemicals that are on the peel. Terrific.

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Jean B.