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Pico Rico wrote:
> "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.”

>> 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.
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>

I was just thinking there's be more of them in what was described.

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Jean B.