"Jean B." > wrote in message
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> 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.”
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> 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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what makes you think you would not be getting them on the truly fresh
squeezed OJ? They don't have some guy manually juicing.