Orange Juice's 'Secret Ingredient' Worries Some Health-Minded Moms
Dec. 16, 2011
Natalya Murakhver, a New York food
writer and mother of an 18-month year old daughter, loved her premium brand
orange juice -- the "100 percent pure" and "not from
concentrate" kind that comes in the colorful carton and tastes consistently
delicious.
That is, until she said she learned
from her first-time moms group that there's a "secret ingredient" in
all premium orange juices that companies are not required to put on their
labeling.
Now, after writing Whole Foods, she
refuses to buy her favorite, "365" juice, amid uncertainty about its
contents.
"One of the moms said she had
read about [how the juice is made] and they held it in tanks for up to a year
and it pretty much lost all of its flavor and had to be reinvigorated with
these flavor packs, which are essentially chemicals," said Murakhver, 40,
and co-author of "They Eat What?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and
Exotic Food from around the World."
