When you buy juice and it says it contains orange juice, or any other juice in it- you probably think of it this way:

When you think of concentrated Orange juice you probably think about something like this

But if you thought more about it you would realize that to make juice you really don’t want the peel of the orange- or the peel of most fruits because they are bitter and not so sweet.

But if you thought about it you realize they would reasonably get rid of the peel and they do

Then if you peel an orange you see underneath the peel there is some pulp and unless the juice has added this back in, most of the time you think is that this material will have to be removed, because if you taste this- it is also kind of bitter and chewy:

Under the peel of the orange is some bitter pulp and in most juices you don’t want to have this

So when you really think about orange juice, or any juice- you think of the meaty part of the fruit- the tasty stuff and when you think of that you think this must be the stuff they make the concentrate from:

The beautiful inside of an orange – this must be what they put into the concentrate.

But then you think again, and realize that they have to squeeze the juice out of that. So you have juice. But that it isn’t really concentrated so what they have to do is some method to make the juice concentrated. So you imagine it looks something like you would see in a frozen can of juice – and would look like that.

But that isn’t what the companies do. What they do is they take that concentrate and they break it down further and make it into a powder that they can easily add to the other powders and ingredients that they make then bottle and sell you as juice. What does that look like?

Sugar – its just sugar

What they do is simply extract the sugar, and this means what you are drinking is a product from some oranges, or grapes, or whatever juice they say. It is just another excuse to give you more sugar, so you can buy more juice.

So next time you want some juice- remember – it probably isn’t really anything more than flavoring, coloring, and sugar. You want juice – get the fruits or vegetables and do it yourself because otherwise what you are eating is just junk food, and you are just fooling yourself.