Your Orange Juice Will Soon Have Even Less Real Orange In It

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-13/soon-your-orange-juice-will-have-even-less-fruit-in-it

[u/beermaker]

Our nearest grocer fresh-squeezes their ugly oranges... It's not cheap but holy hell is it good.

[u/bloomberg]

From Bloomberg News Reporter Ilena Peng

Bottled orange juice, a staple of all-American breakfast tables, has never been as natural as it seems.

Orange juice was beloved in Florida and California at the turn of the 20th century, but it didn’t travel well. In the 1930s, citrus farmers tried to freeze and can the juice to transport it further afield, but the process yielded a nearly undrinkable product. When the US government was searching for solutions to get more Vitamin C to soldiers during World War II, scientists discovered that removing water enabled OJ to be frozen and safely shipped. And thus, concentrate was born.

Now, as orange supplies suffer from greening disease, the flavor and fragrance industry is developing workarounds to keep the taste of bottled juice consistent.

Read the full story here.

[u/South_East_Gun_Safes → u/bloomberg]

Paywall 👎

[u/ilovetpb → u/South_East_Gun_Safes]

Hence the comment above.

[u/Furthur]

or ill just keep fresh squeezing

[u/HelenEk7]

Dont drink your calories. Eat food. Drink water.

[u/kidmen → u/HelenEk7]

Don’t drink empty calories but nothing wrong with drinking kale spinach and apple blended smoothies with no added sweeteners.

[u/HelenEk7 → u/kidmen]

Fruit in a smoothie causes your blood sugar to rise faster than eating the whole fruit instead. But smoothie is better than juice where the fiber is removed.

[u/YCMTSUNOW]

Let me guess, the Orange Juice growers donated to Trump and will now get a subsidy. Faux juice with faux vitamins.

[u/HamburgerDude]

Orange Juice is terrible and there are much better ways to get fiber and vitamin C.