6/8/14: This week on "The Food Guys:" Jon and Greg discuss a 2009 article about boxed, refrigerated orange juice - the pasteurized, "not from concentrate" kind - questioning whether the term "100% pure orange juice" accurately describes an orange-flavored, chemically-altered, long-shelf-life product:
"The technology of choice at the moment is aseptic storage, which involves stripping the juice of oxygen, a process known as “deaeration,” so it doesn’t oxidize in the million-gallon tanks in which it can be kept for upwards of a year. When the juice is stripped of oxygen it is also stripped of flavor-providing chemicals. Juice companies therefore hire flavor and fragrance companies, the same ones that formulate perfumes for Dior and Calvin Klein, to engineer flavor packs to add back to the juice to make it taste fresh. Flavor packs aren’t listed as an ingredient on the label because technically they are derived from orange essence and oil. Yet those in the industry will tell you that the flavor packs, whether made for reconstituted or pasteurized orange juice, resemble nothing found in nature." (Alissa Hamilton)
