Real Orange Juice Vs Concentrate

At the manufacturing stage when juice from oranges has been extracted and the pulp removed the product is processed into two forms.

Real orange juice vs concentrate.

Glass with 0 calories from fat. If they re not from concentrate juices like coca cola s minute maid and simply orange brands or pepsico s tropicana they re probably concoctions defined by data algorithms and juice pipelines. From concentrate means that all the excess water from the oranges is removed. They wanted to help clarify this for consumers so they made a rule that the word pasteurized must be shown on the labels in letters not less than one half of the height of the letters in the words orange juice.

Not from concentrate nfc or bulk frozen concentrated orange juice fcoj. Fresh orange juice also contains more vitamin a than its frozen concentrated counterpart. The price difference seemed clear to me. Unfortunately it s only by doing division that we find a different answer.

The fda believed that consumers were confused that not from concentrate orange juice was the same as hand squeezed juice. A glass of fresh juice provides 496 international units of vitamin a 17 percent of the recommended daily intake for men and 21 percent for women according to the institute of medicine while an equivalent serving of juice made from frozen concentrate offers just 266 international units. The pulp ratio was great but it tasted a bit too far away from the real thing to be truly enjoyable. That said florida s natural was unfortunately very clearly at the bottom of the pile.

In terms of calories the juices of the three top orange juice manufacturers are identical. Tropicana 100 percent pure premium no pulp and florida s natural premium which are both not from concentrate and minute maid original premium orange juice which is from concentrate each have 110 calories per 8 oz. The smallest we found was 200 ml. The can cost 1 84.

The box is 64 fl oz. Note that most packaging is more than 100 ml. For instance a medium orange 131 grams has 62 calories and 15 grams of carbs while an 8 ounce 240 ml glass of orange juice made from 100 concentrate has 110 calories and 24 grams of carbs. In my most recent visit to target i assumed that the frozen orange juice concentrate would be cheaper.

Described as airplane oj by one of the tasters this was a bit too saccharine and concentrate like. If no additional ingredients like sugar and preservatives are added to a from concentrate juice it s no worse than a juice that s not from concentrate. Minute maid has more sugar than orange juice in its pulpy orange drink between the tropicana and activ the taste of tropicana is better.