Maybe I'm a bit slow, but I just noticed that Tropicana pure premium orange juice is no longer 100% Florida orange juice. It's now made from oranges from the US and Brazil. Does any brand make juice from all Florida oranges anymore?

Florida's Natural. All Florida oranges, not from concentrate.

The local supermakets are selling fresh oranges from Australia! How the hell does that happen???

Jets, and what some company's call fresh isn't.

As a one-time produce clerk, the answer to all questions is.........$ When you buy orange pulp by the metric ton, lowest price rules.

IIRC, Tropicana ended 'Florida orange juice' a long time ago, it became 'Florida squeezed' and now I quess it's just plain 'pure premium'. In any case, I drink enough of the stuff to float a barge.

Stick with Florida's Natural. I grew up in Florida, fed by the OJ industry. More oranges brought into this country from Brazil than what's in Florida.
Stay local. I even stay away from California stuff, myself. It's almost foreign.

And apple juice concentrate all come from china no matter what brand you buy....

an orange is an orange, why does it really matter?

It's sorta like those high dollar "Cuban seed" cigars sold in the US, but grown in Honduras or the Dominican Republic.

Send those Florida orange seeds to some Banana Republic with low, low overhead, then buy it back the oranges cheap , mark em up and sell it to you know who.

Ahhh...commercial enterprise, ain't it wonderful.

MOONDAWG

I believe I heard a couple of years ago that Florida had some problem with orange trees and had to distroy a bunch of them. Maybe they havent recovered totaly yet. I went down to orlando earlier this year and saw several orchards along the highway that appeard dead and overgrown. Did a virus get them, or did price dictate the change.

I was in Florida this winter and found a citrus place that sold fresh juice. They had free samples and I drank as much as I could. They didn't ask me to leave, but I got some stares. I bought 2 gallons to take back to the condo but it didn't last long. They also had some orange-strawberry mix and it was also good.

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Originally posted by NoJoe:
an orange is an orange, why does it really matter?

Pesticides ?????

I stopped drinking apple juice last year. The FDA does not do a very good job in this country so why trust products from another country? So far I haven't found any lead paint in the Minute Maid but it also has Brazil and USA listed on can. Hard to pass up the price 2 for $1 at Sharp Shopper for the 12 oz concentrate cans.

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We moved to Florida many years ago and have been drinking Florida Natural almost exclusivly sing being here.

Canker was spreading. It's a disease that kills the trees. It's hard to control because it's VERY easy to spread. All it takes is walking through an infected area, then going to a clean area and walking through it. It spreads by contact, maybe by strong winds (think all the hurricanes a few years ago). It is very devastating to the trees.

Oranges are NOT grown in Orchards. They are grown in groves. Definitions don't matter. They started as wild trees (in groves) so they are groves, whether planted or not. "Orchard" is a sure sign of a Yankee.

"an orange is an orange"?
The rest of the world doesn't have the same standards as we do. You put in your body what you want, but don't complain when it makes you sick.
This attitude is why the farmers are dying off in this country. Someone mentioned those overgrown Orange Groves, that's why.

Seems the same folks that cry "I'll only buy stuff Made in America" forget that food should come from here, too.