Orange Juice, You Betrayed Me

Here I am thinking good ol' orange juice is good for us. Oranges. Freshly squeezed. Pulp. Yummy for my health.

So you'd THINK.

The short and skinny of this is this. Companies remove oxygen from oranges so they can store the juice for up to a year in giant holding tanks. Yeah. Gross. When they remove the oxygen, its flavor and nutrients are also stripped away. When they're ready to bottle them, the same companies that make fragrances for perfumes also make FLAVOR packets for orange juice. These lovely flavor packets are mixed in with the stripped down juice and wala---OJ tastes like oranges again. And still lack the nutrients.

My advice: buy your own oranges and squeeze them yourself. Don't trust the stuff on the shelves.