The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice
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The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice
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#2Not sure if this is an urban myth or not, but I've heard Cheese Wiz is actually grey. Orange food coloring is later added to the goo to give it that cheddar color.
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#3Not sure if this is an urban myth or not, but I've heard Cheese Wiz is actually grey. Orange food coloring is later added to the goo to give it that cheddar color.
The orange color you associate with cheddar is artificial. Originally it was due to annatto, though they may use something else now.
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#4Not sure if this is an urban myth or not, but I've heard Cheese Wiz is actually grey. Orange food coloring is later added to the goo to give it that cheddar color.
The orange color you associate with cheddar is artificial. Originally it was due to annatto, though they may use something else now.
Is cheddar usually orange? I think all of the cheddar I have ever bought in NH and VT is a pale yellow.
I'm crazy about cheeses, but the only orange cheeses I've ever seen were all very poor brands, unless I'm forgetting something.
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#5Hmm,
Although I don't put this below the food industry to do, it is peculiar that the sources listed are all other blogs. Looking through the blog links I found a NYT article sourced but it said nothing about chemically processed orange products being added to 100% orange juice.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/business/22pepsi.html?scp=...
Any one have any better sources?
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#6I don't think that the health conclusions of this piece (don't drink orange juice from the supermarket!) are warranted. All the sources listed in it lead back to Alissa Hamilton's book "Squeezed." While not having read it, all of the information I can find suggest that Hamilton is not trying to suggest that orange juice is unhealthy. For example, this interview in the Boston Globe - http://articles.boston.com/2009-02-22/bostonglobe/29257797_1... :
You'd be better off with a whole orange than a glass of orange juice. It has more fiber and more vitamin C. But I'm not a dietitian. The book is not about whether you should drink orange juice and whether it's healthy. It's about how little consumers know about how popular and - in the case of orange juice - seemingly straightforward foods are produced and the repercussions for agriculture.
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#7...and natural flavors too! I used an exclamation mark so I must be female.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2010-title21-vol2/xml/CFR-2...
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#8Hate to be cynical but I suspect the whole point of the article is to sell you on buying a juicer.
The domain is owned by a copy writing firm called http://www.wonderworkingwords.com/ . I can't prove it but I am willing to wager that a juicer firm commissioned the article. The firms motto after all is 'words that sell'.
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#9Tldr; 100% juice like tropicana is deoxygenated to remove all the flavor and make it last a long time and then natural flavor is added to make the taste consistent.
They shouldn't be able to say its 100% juice. WTF.
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#10Lately I've started drinking OJ from a brand called Evolution. They claim to just squeeze it and bottle it, more or less. They use cold pasteurization, a.k.a. irradiation, which doesn't bother me and helps preserve the taste. I've also found all I really need is a small glass in the morning.
It's quite expensive, however.