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$4 premium not from concentrate orange juice turns out to be fake
I'm not surprised. I'm disappointed it took this long (30 years) to come out to the public that this is what they were doing.
Obviously the big Corporations paid the Government off to not be required to put the ingredients on the label.
We should all by now that the Corporations are paying the Government to basically kill off it's own customers in the name of profits.
Like I have said "Profits over people" is their motto.
12-27-2011
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/orange...edient-worries/story?id=15154617#.Tu0P2PLUalt
Natalya Murakhver, a New York food writer and mother of an 18-month year old daughter, loved her premium brand orange juice -- the "100 percent pure" and "not from concentrate" kind that comes in the colorful carton and tastes consistently delicious.
That is, until she said she learned from her first-time moms group that there's a "secret ingredient" in all premium orange juices that companies are not required to put on their labeling.
For the last 30 years, the citrus industry has used flavor packs to process what the Food and Drug Administration identifies as "pasteurized" orange juice. That includes top brands such as Tropicana, Minute Maid, Simply Orange and Florida Natural, among others.
The "not from concentrate" brands appeared on store shelves sometime in the 1980s to differentiate them from frozen juice and other bottled concentrates. Despite its high price tag -- now up to $4 a carton -- sales of the premium brands have soared.
But those juices don't just jump from the grove to the breakfast table.
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.
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.
Update
Rich California woman has hired a lawyer to sue on this:
1-11-2012
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/whats-oj-tropicana-sued-135956848.html
What's in that OJ? Tropicana is sued
A California woman is suing the maker of Tropicana claiming it is squeezing consumers by touting the best-selling U.S. orange juice as "100% pure and natural" when it is not.
In her federal lawsuit, plaintiff Angelena Lewis said Tropicana Products Inc, knowing consumers "want and demand natural products," deceives them in its advertising and packaging for its Pure Premium juice, including cartons featuring an orange with a straw stuck into it.
Lewis said the unit of PepsiCo Inc actually puts the juice through extensive processing, adding aromas and flavors that change its "essential nature" and give it a longer shelf life.
The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Sacramento, California and alleges violations of U.S. consumer fraud laws.
It seeks class-action status on behalf of all U.S. purchasers of the juice, a halt to the alleged deception and compensatory, punitive and triple damages.
Update:
First it's a fake and now the Brazilians are trying to kill us
2-3-2012
http://news.yahoo.com/fda-confirms-fungicide-orange-juice-030921095.html
FDA confirms fungicide in orange juice
I'm not surprised. I'm disappointed it took this long (30 years) to come out to the public that this is what they were doing.
Obviously the big Corporations paid the Government off to not be required to put the ingredients on the label.
We should all by now that the Corporations are paying the Government to basically kill off it's own customers in the name of profits.
Like I have said "Profits over people" is their motto.
12-27-2011
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/orange...edient-worries/story?id=15154617#.Tu0P2PLUalt
Natalya Murakhver, a New York food writer and mother of an 18-month year old daughter, loved her premium brand orange juice -- the "100 percent pure" and "not from concentrate" kind that comes in the colorful carton and tastes consistently delicious.
That is, until she said she learned from her first-time moms group that there's a "secret ingredient" in all premium orange juices that companies are not required to put on their labeling.
For the last 30 years, the citrus industry has used flavor packs to process what the Food and Drug Administration identifies as "pasteurized" orange juice. That includes top brands such as Tropicana, Minute Maid, Simply Orange and Florida Natural, among others.
The "not from concentrate" brands appeared on store shelves sometime in the 1980s to differentiate them from frozen juice and other bottled concentrates. Despite its high price tag -- now up to $4 a carton -- sales of the premium brands have soared.
But those juices don't just jump from the grove to the breakfast table.
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.
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.
Update
Rich California woman has hired a lawyer to sue on this:
1-11-2012
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/whats-oj-tropicana-sued-135956848.html
What's in that OJ? Tropicana is sued
A California woman is suing the maker of Tropicana claiming it is squeezing consumers by touting the best-selling U.S. orange juice as "100% pure and natural" when it is not.
In her federal lawsuit, plaintiff Angelena Lewis said Tropicana Products Inc, knowing consumers "want and demand natural products," deceives them in its advertising and packaging for its Pure Premium juice, including cartons featuring an orange with a straw stuck into it.
Lewis said the unit of PepsiCo Inc actually puts the juice through extensive processing, adding aromas and flavors that change its "essential nature" and give it a longer shelf life.
The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Sacramento, California and alleges violations of U.S. consumer fraud laws.
It seeks class-action status on behalf of all U.S. purchasers of the juice, a halt to the alleged deception and compensatory, punitive and triple damages.
Update:
First it's a fake and now the Brazilians are trying to kill us
2-3-2012
http://news.yahoo.com/fda-confirms-fungicide-orange-juice-030921095.html
FDA confirms fungicide in orange juice
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