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Yes, it's my understanding too. The OJ factory creates "flavor packs", essentially artificial flavor constructed from chemicals extracted from the oranges. Plen

Yes, it's my understanding too. The OJ factory creates "flavor packs", essentially artificial flavor constructed from chemicals extracted from the oranges. Plenty of sources out there for it, but Wikipedia is a good place to start spidering from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_juice#Not_from_concentrate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_juice#Not_from_concentra.... Personally, I'm not really against artificial food, but you have to admit the labeling is misleading. Also, efficiently using a single source with fixed ratios of compounds in it sounds like a fun engineering problem. "How can I turn this pipe of mixed chemicals into this other pipe of mixed chemicals at lowest cost and least waste?"

abandonliberty 12y ago
The citation on using the orange peel is a Tropicana spokesperson response to a Baltimore Sun article in 2010. >"Everything in the juice comes from the orange," she said. "One hundred percent juice is mixed with natural oils found in the peel. Nothing artificial is added." I think you could synthesize the compounds in a lab and still get away with that statement. Barely. Not that it matters whether the compounds are organically sourced and purified or synthesized, but they have a vested interest in making their product appear more natural and have been misleading consumers for a while.