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Fruit Juice Tastes Best When Freshly Squeezed
By Patrick D Kelly
Fruit juice is best when freshly squeezed. If you don’t
have the time to squeeze your own fresh fruit juice, you can buy
daily squeezed orange juice.
The freshly squeezed fruit juice has to be consumed within a
few days as it usually does not have preservatives or any other
additives to make it long lasting. When I get my freshly squeezed
orange juice, my family usually drinks it within a couple of hours.
They just love the delicious taste of fresh fruit juice.
Like most people, fruit juices were a part of my life from a
very young age. Almost everyone remembers having canned fruit
juice and cookies as a child during recess, or some other break.
Juice In A Tin Can
I guess the best way to think about canned fruit juice is that
it tastes like juice that has been heated, stuck in a tin can,
and left for several months, which is exactly what has been done
to it!
It is no wonder that so many kids drink soda instead of juice.
They don’t understand how good it can actually taste.
Orange Juice Concentrate
The canned fruit juice concentrate my parents would get was better,
but it still wasn’t all that good. What I liked about orange
juice concentrate was that it was thick and sweet. My mom never
used quite as much water as the container recommended, and as
a result we always had supersaturated orange juice.
It was a way to get us to drink more fruit juice, and I think
it worked. Although we would have still preferred having some
soda, we were still happy whenever we saw our mom defrost an orange
juice can.
What we didn’t realize was that the juice we were having,
was not much healthier than the soda pop that we craved.
Canning Process Destroys Many Of The Vitamins
It turns out that fruit juice concentrate – and most juice you
buy in a store for that matter – adds sugar to make it sweeter.
As if this were not bad enough, the canning process destroys many
of the vitamins that make the juice healthy in the first place.
I am sure that all around this country, millions of parents think
that they are serving their children something much healthier
than they actually are.
Freshly Squeezed Juice
The bottom line, when you are looking to review your options,
is that the only way to have healthy fruit juices is to squeeze
them yourself. Although it is possible to buy fruit juice in a
store that is reasonably healthy, it still isn’t nearly
as good as fresh squeezed juice.
Pasteurizing – The process that makes foods stay fresh when they
are put in cans, bottles, or cartons – destroyed many vitamins
and minerals. All you are left with is the sugar, the water, and
some fiber.
More Antioxidants And Vitamin C
Drinking fresh juice, by contrast, gives you a much greater supply
of antioxidants, vitamin C, and other nutrients.
Freshly squeezed orange juice tastes better too. There is a store
near here where you can buy daily squeezed orange juice in a two
litre bottle. It is located in a supermarket and it has the machine
that squeezes the oranges, for all to see.
To show you freshness of the fruit juice, you can even see all
the oranges after the juice has been squeezed from them. Talk
about fresh fruit juice!
No Added Sugar Or Preservatives
The juice does not contain any added sugar or preservatives,
so it has to be consumed within a couple of days as it does not
have the chemical additives to make the fruit juice long lasting.
Nowadays, every one wants to review their options and avoid chemical
additives in food, especially those people allergic to some of
the additives. Every time I go to this store, I always buy freshly
squeezed orange juice. In fact there are other supermarkets that
are closer but they don’t sell freshly squeezed fruit juice.
In the heat of summer or in the cold of winter when the family
requests orange juice, I always go to this store for its delicious
fresh fruit juice.
About the Author:
Patrick D Kelly has written a number of articles on food and cooking including
Groceries Online,
Crock Pot Soup,
Food Storage,
Kitchen Equipment,
Can Opener,
Kitchen Scale,
Sabatier Knives,
Wood Bread Box,
Grocery Shopping.
Keep a lookout for more articles on this website.
Did You Know?
Everyone is concerned about saving money yet they waste hundreds
of dollars each year on preservative filled bread. Why go through
that pain and hassle of buying bread that has so many preservatives
pumped into it that it takes weeks to go moldy?
Bread making is not that difficult with the right recipe and
the right equipment. You can make your own fresh, hot bread at
home if you take the time to learn how. Before you know it you
will be saving money and giving your family a healthy slice of
life.
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