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- madeingermany, on 09/05/2008, -1/+72There is no good reason, why companies should not be forced to include everything they put into a product on the label.
Well, except good lobbyists. - AmyVernon, on 09/05/2008, -0/+55I've always wondered what "natural flavors" are.
- GorfTron, on 09/05/2008, -1/+53I add 100% natural vodka and forget the rest.
- loaff, on 09/05/2008, -0/+52Just eat a god damn orange.
- madeingermany, on 09/05/2008, -0/+51Well, now you still don't know ;)
- xero69, on 09/05/2008, -0/+40Note to Tropicana: Technically feces would fall under that umbrella of "natural flavors are anything from nature"
- unopercepcion, on 09/05/2008, -6/+44A fellow coworker, then became Friend, once told me a story of when he worked at Tropicana (a long time ago) when, in the initial part of the processing, there were open silos(or?). At any rate there was a guy working there who would take his break on the catwalks above and smoke. When he finished his cigarette he would flip the butt in the tank and spit. This was a long time ago, but I remember I interjected, "Parts per million, right?" I thought a punch line was coming. He went on to explain that this went on for some time and because the guy had worked there longer he was reluctant to rock the boat. When he saw the guy urinating in the tank, he exposed him (no pun intended) and got him fired. My friend had no reason to B.S. me. this was 10 to fifteen years ago + another 5 years before that when he worked @ Tropicana.
- springboks, on 09/05/2008, -2/+35It's not the juice I have a problem with. Although the thought of cow poop is a little daunting. It's that new improved "Easy Pour Lid" that I can't stand.
Interesting as one poster states: So to get juice you have to buy the premium actually 100% juice, not the 100% juice?
We're onto something. - SkippyDoorknob, on 09/05/2008, -1/+27As would radioactive uranium powder
- chickenloco, on 09/05/2008, -1/+26Simply Orange and Simply Apple = Perfect
- StigNordas, on 09/05/2008, -1/+24I understand wy the FDA doesn't mandate all ingredients listed, for many products that would divulge secret recipes. But they should at least require companies to distinguish between liver enzymes and fruit juices.
A more pressing question: Why is it that Americans must drink orange juice every morning? - 0ceanic, on 09/05/2008, -1/+23bovine pancreatic juice?
- robopuppy, on 09/05/2008, -0/+21Sewer rat may taste like 100% orange juice but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy *****.
- bryanska, on 09/05/2008, -7/+27What a bunch of whiny, paranoid people.
Natural Flavors is allowed FDA phrasing, so go bitch at the government. The company's formula is secret. Any ingredient under 2% in volume needn't disclosed in the same way as larger-quantity ingredients. It also allows the company to "punch up" the orange taste with concentrated fruit extracts in case the season's oranges aren't particularly sweet that year. Or alternate suppliers might supply a different variety of oranges, or the proportions could be off, or the thermal process used in sterilizing the juice might have gotten too hot and killed off some flavor.
It's really amazing how "smart" everyone thinks they are, but so many folks fall immediately into Michael Moore mode. Sure, the customer service person should have known far better, but trust me: there is nothing conspiratorial about the Tropicana Orange Juice people.
Go make billions of gallons of your own orange juice, give it a 60-day shelf life, ship it across continents and over mountains while keeping it between 40 and 50 F, and then make every glass taste the same to every customer. Don't make anyone remotely sick, by the way.
Then you'll see just how difficult it is to keep "natural flavors" out of it. - thezanman, on 09/05/2008, -2/+19Good Marketing. Orange juice is actually a fairly poor drink, its high in sugars and low in other various nutrients compared to other juices such as grapefruit. It sure is tasty though!
- DaviDTC, on 09/05/2008, -1/+18How do you know you have never had sewer rat? It might be one of the many natural flavors from nature.
- Hodor, on 09/05/2008, -0/+16"trade secrets"
- analogking, on 09/05/2008, -1/+16Who cares? The vodka sanitizes it.
- samimnot, on 09/06/2008, -8/+22-A fellow coworker
-Once told me
-A long time ago
-A guy working there
-This was a long time ago
-But I remember
-My friend had no reason to B.S. me
Sorry ;-) nothing personal…I just prefer something a bit less “cliché consumerist B.S.” before I consider it reliable. - inactive, on 09/06/2008, -2/+15I like it when something says, "Artificial flavorings." Well, MSG is an "artificial flavoring" isn't it? Years ago one of the Pillsbury guys who'd worked on the French Fry recipe for Burger King told me they'd worked for years to come up with a fry that didn't require ketchup. I kept pressing him for some hints and never got an answer, but I suspect it may be a combination of corn syrup and MSG. Bottom line is that we have no idea what the hell is in most of the food we eat.
- Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -0/+12The bottom of my foot is a natural flavor.
- thrillki1l, on 09/05/2008, -0/+11the crappy thing about this is that it's legal for them not to tell you. For example a bottle of BBQ sauce has on it's ingredients list "other spices". what that combination of spices is is considered a trade secret and the government protects companies trade secrets with laws. So it's really crappy for some people because say your severely allergic to paprika they don't have to tell you if it's one of the spices.
- 8ight, on 09/06/2008, -0/+11Well aren't you greatness? I can walk across the street and pick ears of corn all day... impressed?
I went to FL this summer... I had their OJ. It tasted like juice from an orange. - zdiggler, on 09/05/2008, -0/+11those labels need to be more clear then they're.
20% squeezed juice
40% Water
40% of stuff our sciencetist brew up in our labs.
etc. - twiztidsinz, on 09/06/2008, -0/+10OJ kills..... allegedly
- spyd3rweb, on 09/05/2008, -1/+11If they weren't something bad they'd willfully be labeling them.
- sigmaman2, on 09/05/2008, -1/+10I figure this is from the "Don't-get-sued-on-a-minor-technicality" division of their legal department.
If Tropicana says it's 100% pure orange juice, then some busy-body discovers traces of tangerine, they would have grounds to sue.
So they say it's "100% juice". That coveres juices from oranges, tangerines, grapefruits, wombats, Insurance Salesman, whatever. - Ramenhood, on 09/05/2008, -1/+10WHO CARES. Just about every post on the Consumerist has some guy being a dick to a lowly customer service rep and making a big deal out of nothing.
- twiztidsinz, on 09/06/2008, -1/+10BBQ Sauce =/= 100% -blank- Juice
As Mononuclear above said..
"The thing is with 100% juice there shouldn't be any other ingredients. There should be nothing to keep secret because it should be 100% juice. As soon as you add something else.. anything else.. it is no longer 100% juice." - heynow21, on 09/06/2008, -0/+9TROPICANA IS PEOPLE!!!
- CosmicJustice, on 09/06/2008, -1/+9Orange juice is not "a fairly poor drink." Where do you people get this *****? It the juice of an orange... period. I guess if you're a 90 year old diabetic you might want to take it easy on the OJ and every thing else imaginable as well. Otherwise drink up. If OJ is going to hurt you then you're screwed already.
- kirkio, on 09/05/2008, -1/+9"[Natural Flavours] do not make a nutritional contribution, are not derived from an animal species, and there are **no health concerns linked to them**."
Source: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Help/FAQs_Flavorings/inde ... - Corrosionx, on 09/06/2008, -0/+8Also when you pull the ring to open it the first time, you always receive a drop on your hand and that just pisses me off.
- frontaxle, on 09/05/2008, -0/+8It tastes like burning!
- Mononuclear, on 09/06/2008, -0/+8The thing is with 100% juice there shouldn't be any other ingredients. There should be nothing to keep secret because it should be 100% juice. As soon as you add something else.. anything else.. it is no longer 100% juice.
- Lane, on 09/05/2008, -0/+8its all the colours of the rainbow
- Gotar, on 09/05/2008, -1/+9Yeah their juice is only like at most 85% natural fruit juice. The other 15% is from horse dicks.
- ronk, on 09/05/2008, -0/+7My doctor told me to stop driking juices and eat fresh fruits instead. He is concerned about the sugar content found in juices.
- SkinnyPuppy, on 09/06/2008, -1/+8You have obviously never worked in customer service.
- TheCasablancan, on 09/06/2008, -0/+7When my dad was in Iraq, he said that the bottled water from turkey listed anything that may be in the water to make it less pure.
He said that he was able to make out "Fekel Mader" followed by around 0.01%
I don't think Water in the US is under that requirement, but it makes me wonder, how much ***** have we as US citizens swallowed? - JekJob, on 09/06/2008, -1/+8A note on that "Easy Pour Lid": it's all a scam. They want us to think they redesigned it for our convenience, but its actually so they can sell less juice for the same price.
And now we find out that there's poo in our juice. Jerks. - norman619, on 09/06/2008, -1/+7It's a legally allowed impurity. All our foods have them. You'd be shocked if you knew EVERYTHING that was in the stuff we buy. Apple Cider has lots of extra protein from ground up insects and their larva. They make apple cider from "waste" apples. Basically they make if from apples not suitable to be sold in markets. Tehre is no such thing as pure anything in foods. Even bottled water isn't pure. There will always be impurities.
- ChileanGoD, on 09/06/2008, -1/+7They come from nature.... It's all you need to know.
- StarlessKnight, on 09/06/2008, -0/+6It's not necessarily that... it's the ever constant, unending, red-light-on-your-phone-fun stream that gets to you.
- ZimbuTheMonkey, on 09/06/2008, -1/+7Dumbasses are digging you down, but I totally agree.
- publiclurker, on 09/06/2008, -1/+6Actually, by waste apples, they usually mean those too small, misshapen or scabby to sell. Trees put out a lot of fruit that you wouldn't want to pay top dollar for, and if it's getting ground up anyways, why use the good stuff.
- inactive, on 09/05/2008, -0/+5Sigh. Just make your own in a batch. A bit more expensive though, but at least you know where it comes from.
- justbloggin, on 09/06/2008, -0/+5In Canada the labelling is bizarre, even the words "Product of Canada" does not mean it's from Canada. If you think OJ is bad try finding pure cranberry juice. The corporate food producers fight accurate labelling laws fiercely...and apparently successfully. Sugar water with some artificial flavouring is much cheaper than the real thing.
- MixMastaKooz, on 09/06/2008, -0/+5In Tropicana's "Heart Healthy" Premium OJ, they put fish oil in it. Tastes a bit off, but I bet, at least according to the studies I've read on fish oil, it is actually healthy for you.
- inactive, on 09/06/2008, -0/+5Sounds like an excellent new product.
"Poop juice!"
"What's got into that cat?"
"Poop juice!" -
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