Monday, May 31, 2010

Media, Edition #5: Orange Juice Scam?

This intrigued me because orange juice seems like such an innocent food. Then again, Food Inc., The Future of Food, and other media sources readily argue otherwise, so maybe no readily available food is "innocent" unless labeled so (and you know how to read food labels). That said, this interview with Alissa Hamilton, author of Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice, struck a chord because I remember having bottled Dole orange juice as a kid and it never tasted right. Minute Maid and Tropicana were less offensive, but none of them really matched what an orange tasted like. I guess I now know why.

2 comments:

  1. Guess it'll have to fresh squeezed from now on, but strained. No chewy juice.

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  2. Yeah. It's going to take a lot more oranges though to get a full glass. That's expensive, so it'll have to happen only on occasion, but I think true fresh-squeezed juice (strained - I'm not a big fan of pulp either) is well-worth the effort.

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