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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 11:03 AM
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What's all this crap in my juice?
Or, to put it another way, why does every product that calls itself "natural" or "organic" have little bits floating in it?

I love organic as a concept. But is there something about the common strainer that somehow ruins the "natural" aspect of stuff? Do I have to pick my teeth in order to be healthy?!?
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 11:06 AM
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1. its pulp
a by-product from squeezing the juice, lil bits of orange? skin, thats all
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 11:09 AM
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4. Yes, yes, yes....
But if we take it out, is it no longer "natural"?

If I have a strainer at the end of my hand juicer, is it no longer freshly squeezed?

I think we're being deceived, and regardless of which side of the bed I fell off of this morning (grumpy side, it seems), I just won't stand for it anymore... :bounce:
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 11:49 AM
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6. It's good for you
Edited on Mon Oct-27-03 11:49 AM by Kamika
Just drink it up omg there are ppl starving etc etc
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 11:08 AM
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2. Well, if there were no pulp, you might not believe that the product...
...is all-natural. If a product is too refined, the thinking goes, folks simply will not believe that it does not have something "processed" about it.

That's my opinion, for what it's worth.
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 11:08 AM
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3. Those Little Bits of Fruit
(at least I hope that's what they are) contain the mysterious bioflavinoids, which are not exactly nutrients but help your body to UTILIZE other nutrients. Or so the organic folks would have you believe.

On the other hand, you remember that episode of the Simpsons about the organic juice farm? There ARE some other possibilities.
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MojoKrunch Donating Member (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 11:40 AM
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5. Most brands offer pulp-free juices... even organics...
Ask your natural food grocer to special order you a case of the pulp-free stuff and your life will be far less stressful.
Actually I'm continually amazed at the sheer variety of options offered for most food products.

Like running your juice through a stainer to remove the pulp will kill ya?
:)

Mojo
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 11:55 AM
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7. pay them no mind
They're just toenail shavings from when they were stomping the fruit.

:)
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 12:57 PM
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8. Orange Juice without pulp just isn't Orange Juice to me.
My BF likes pulp free...but if I can't chew my orange juice, what's the point? LOL Besides, there are vitamins in all that stuff.
Duckie
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 01:28 PM
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9. No sympathy....I LIKE mine "Chunk Style"!
Lots of Pulp! Oh, Sing HO! for the Pulp of the Day! Oranges! Thy juice and PULP comfort me!

Chew your juice before you swallow!
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qwertyMike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 01:53 PM
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10. As W.C. Fields said
"Who put orange juice in my orange juice"

Hic!
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 02:11 PM
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11. Fiber, baybee!
Everything's got to have more fiber these days - Americans are starting to crap little pellets like hamsters. We don't want to be an entire nation of whistle-asses, after all!
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