> I’m sure you’re careful to buy the kind that’s 100% > juice and not made from concentrate. After all, > that’s the healthier kind, right? If you're

> I’m sure you’re careful to buy the kind that’s 100% > juice and not made from concentrate. After all, > that’s the healthier kind, right? If you're going to drink sugar water, it's unlikely to make much difference if it came straight from an orange or from concentrate. It seems a bit like worrying about whether your cigarette papers were naturally bleached or not. > flavor packs are made from orange by-products — even though > these ‘by-products’ are so chemically manipulated that they > hardly qualify as ‘by-products’ any more. I would love to know what that actually means, other than being scare-quote-tastic. How does something stop qualifying as a by-product? > 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 The pork sausages I buy come exlusively from pigs, herbs, and onions, and yet they also "resemeble nothing found in nature", unless Big Feline has invented meat grinders while we weren't watching.