Reddit reviews Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

I agree with /u/maxmackie. It's not that there's anything inherently wrong with OJ, there's just a lot of carbs and it's easy to pour yourself 12-16 oz of OJ because it's 'healthy' and then have slammed a lot of carbs. I was probably consuming almost as much sugar, even though it's not added sugar, as I was drinking soda. OJ is a treat drink for brunches and the like.

Also, you might find the book Squeezed to be interesting. It's a fascinating study of the history of OJ and the OJ industry. The discussion on 'addback' is the stuff of crazy chemistry. The OJ you're drinking has an insane amount of stuff done to it to make it taste like the 'OJ' you expect. But, because all the items are derived from oranges they don't have to list anything but oranges on the label.

It's generally not fresh-squeezed here: fruit juices are left to basically ferment for months and months in barrels and then "re-flavored" before packaging. The book Squeezed is a fascinating look into the orange juice industry, if you're interested.

Basically. For storage, everything that makes it juice is removed. Then concentrated flavor and sweetening compounds are added back in. Here's a good article explaining more..

https://orangebook.tetrapak.com/chapter/processing-juice-packer

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/ask-an-academic-orange-juice


https://www.amazon.com/Squeezed-About-Orange-Agrarian-Studies/dp/0300164556/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312826335&sr=8-1

There was a book that came out about the secret life of orange juice a year or two ago; I've been on a backlist to get it from the library for a long time but I understand it to be a quality piece of work on the subject.

Squeezed: What You Don't Know about Orange Juice

I'll just leave this here: Squeezed.

No joke, all brands of orange juice are a scam.

You think squeeze a bunch of oranges -> put in bottles, but no.

They squeeze oranges, heat it up to remove all the flavor, let them sit in giant vats for a year(!), add water and then add 'flavor packs' to them to make them taste the way you think it should.

It's been a while since I read it, but here's a book called 'Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice'

http://www.amazon.com/Squeezed-Orange-Agrarian-Studies-Series/dp/0300164556/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1409076975&sr=8-2&keywords=book+orange+juice