Supermarket Juices and Smoothies

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Permalink Reply by Peter Csere on May 9, 2012 at 12:14am

You want 100% juice. The only ingredient should be juice. There shouldn't be citric acid, ascorbic acid (which some people think is vitamin C), and you DEFINITELY don't want "NATURAL FLAVORS." Because natural flavors often have meat and dairy and weird chemicals. Yes, even in juice. Often the juice sits in big unrefrigerated vats for weeks, and loses its flavor, so they have to add "natural flavor" to it before boiling and bottling.

Fruit juice concentrate means basically they reduced it (by heating or boiling) for shipping and storage, and then diluted it again when bottling. 100% fruit juice not from concentrate is better. 

Refrigerated juice is generally better as other juice has to basically be boiled in order to stay good in a bottle on a shelf at room temperature for weeks. The stuff in the fridge section often was not pasteurized quite as much. 

There is one type of store juice that I buy occasionally. It is Uncle Matt's organic orange juice with pulp, flash pasteurized in a BPA-free bottle. Of course, flash pasteurized is still pasteurized, and plastic is still not good for me, but hey. Sometimes I just want a half gallon of OJ without standing in front of the juicer for an hour. 

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Permalink Reply by Morgie Mckeown on May 9, 2012 at 7:36am

how do you know so much.. :)Thanks peter,

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Permalink Reply by DURIANRIDER on May 9, 2012 at 2:04pm

If you're in the US/Canada/Thailand its far easier to get quality juices than say Australia/NZ.

Im not under any illusion that bottled juices are better than whole fruits BUT I also know its vital to be carbed up then undercarbed and flaking.

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Permalink Reply by Morgie Mckeown on May 9, 2012 at 9:07pm

Thanks harley .

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