Orange Juice

[Damien Howard]

Why do they make orange juice from concentrate?
Isn't better just to get it "fresh" squeezed like tropicana?
Who buys OJ from concentrate? It just doesn't taste as good. If I wanted water I would drink water.
Yes this is a pretty meaningless post, but that's the point of this forum right.

[Michael Ernest]

Orange juice concentrate is less expensive to ship and has a longer shelf life than fresh orange juice.

[Anonymous]

Tropicana is garbage.
Try 'Simply Orange'

[Damien Howard]

I tried simply orange, it is not much different. Not worth the extra money for the smaller bottle (59 oz instead of 64)
non-concentrate lasts a month, if you can't finish a carton in a month then you probably don't like oj

[Richard Hawkes]

Originally posted by <I Killed Kenny>:
Tropicana is garbage.
Tastes pretty good to me!
I went through a stage of juicing my own chilled oranges, making up a jug at a time and mixing orange types. That's the nicest way but more hassle obviously.

[Anonymous]

I changed my mind. Simply Orange sucks. Tropicana Grovestand Rules

[Gail Schlentz]

 

Originally posted by Damien Howard:

Who buys OJ from concentrate? It just doesn't taste as good. If I wanted water I would drink water.

Just "FYI", I used to make my OJ from concentrate using tap water, like "mom" did. Tried using filtered water, & it tastes way better. But still not as yummy as ANY brand of fresh-squeezed!!
[ September 30, 2003: Message edited by: Elaine Micheals ]

[Joel McNary]

As long as the OJ has no pulp, I'm fine with it (concentrate, fresh squeezed, freeze-dried-and-sent-to-the-moon-and-back-and-then-resonstituted-with-lettuce-water, whatever...) I like to drink my OJ, not eat it...

[Jeroen Wenting]

juice from concentrate might not taste as good (at least the cheaper brands) but it's a lot cheaper to get than fresh pressed (which is often from concentrate too these days, but with pulp added).
Maybe it's different where oranges grow, but the transport cost of whole oranges makes them quite expensive here (and freshpressed juice too, takes up a lot of volume to ship).
From a single truckload of concentrate you can make 10 or so truckloads of juice.
When the nearest orange grove is 3 days driving by truck away that's a lot of money spent on truckers (on union wages of course), fuel and maintenance.

[vasu maj]

Say, why not buy oranges and squeeze juice? I do it all the time.

Vasu

[Damien Howard]

 

Originally posted by vasu maj:
Say, why not buy oranges and squeeze juice? I do it all the time.

Vasu

Too much effort, although that does taste the best.

[Vikranth Gujjar.]

Why not grow oranges and squeeze juice? I do it all the time.
Vikranth
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What a wonderful world

[Jeroen Wenting]

 

Originally posted by vasu maj:
Say, why not buy oranges and squeeze juice? I do it all the time.

Vasu

There's oranges in stores here maybe 4 months a year, and 2 of those they're so expensive a single glass of juice would cost $2-3...

[Thomas Paul]

 

Originally posted by Jeroen Wenting:
There's oranges in stores here maybe 4 months a year, and 2 of those they're so expensive a single glass of juice would cost $2-3...

Where are you?

[HS Thomas]

 

Where are you?

An Orange Free State, I should think.
regards