Companies who create bottled fruit juices are legally required to make a distinction between a fruit drink and a fruit juice. Bottled products named with blend, drink or beverage usually contain ten percent juice or less. These are flavored sugar water. Products named with juice or cider must be made of real fruit juice.
Nearly all of the bottled or store bought juices are pasteurized. Dangerous bacteria and other pathogens are removed from food items through pasteurization. Pasteurization is a very effective sterilization process and allows us to extend the shelf life of many things. Juices are rapidly heated and cooled in both the standard practice and high heat methods.
The main drawback to pasteurization is that helpful elements are lost as well. According to General Bacteriology 12th edition, vitamin C is reduced by half during the process. It further states that children who drink only pasteurized milk may lack vitamin C and be at risk. Lori Lopinski makes the claim that fifty percent of the vitamin C is milk is destroyed in her article Milk: It Does a Body Good. She also states that a portion of vitamins A, D and E are lost. Water soluble elements like vitamin C have a bigger loss than nutrients that are fat soluble.
The scientific community is not completely convinced about the possible nutrient loss. There are claims that very little nutrients are eliminated in contrast to those presented above. One thing that is certain is that manufactures do add vitamin C into commercial products to compensate. The ingredients will include ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid is another name for vitamin C. If it is there, it has been artificially added. The product must do this in order to claim there is a full amount of vitamin C.
Some juices are not pasteurized. Odwalla juice was not pasteurized until an incident on October 7, 1996. In 1996 apples used in the juice were responsible for a E coli contamination. They now pasteurize their juices. Odwalla was acquired by The Coca-Cola Company in 2001. Today the FDA mandates that products declare if they are pasteurized. You can determine if a product has potentially harmful elements by looking for it.
Oxygen in the atmosphere will react with vitamin C. The vitamin is an antioxidant. In other words it oxides easily. Oxidation is a term used when substances react with oxygen to form stable compounds. Antioxidants are a source of electrons and prevent oxygen from oxidizing other molecules. Oxygen is a free radical and can potentially damage cells in the body. By consuming antioxidants the free radicals are neutralized before they hurt organs or tissues. The oxygen present in the atmosphere will trigger a reaction.
Nearly all of the bottled or store bought juices are pasteurized. Dangerous bacteria and other pathogens are removed from food items through pasteurization. Pasteurization is a very effective sterilization process and allows us to extend the shelf life of many things. Juices are rapidly heated and cooled in both the standard practice and high heat methods.
The main drawback to pasteurization is that helpful elements are lost as well. According to General Bacteriology 12th edition, vitamin C is reduced by half during the process. It further states that children who drink only pasteurized milk may lack vitamin C and be at risk. Lori Lopinski makes the claim that fifty percent of the vitamin C is milk is destroyed in her article Milk: It Does a Body Good. She also states that a portion of vitamins A, D and E are lost. Water soluble elements like vitamin C have a bigger loss than nutrients that are fat soluble.
The scientific community is not completely convinced about the possible nutrient loss. There are claims that very little nutrients are eliminated in contrast to those presented above. One thing that is certain is that manufactures do add vitamin C into commercial products to compensate. The ingredients will include ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid is another name for vitamin C. If it is there, it has been artificially added. The product must do this in order to claim there is a full amount of vitamin C.
Some juices are not pasteurized. Odwalla juice was not pasteurized until an incident on October 7, 1996. In 1996 apples used in the juice were responsible for a E coli contamination. They now pasteurize their juices. Odwalla was acquired by The Coca-Cola Company in 2001. Today the FDA mandates that products declare if they are pasteurized. You can determine if a product has potentially harmful elements by looking for it.
Oxygen in the atmosphere will react with vitamin C. The vitamin is an antioxidant. In other words it oxides easily. Oxidation is a term used when substances react with oxygen to form stable compounds. Antioxidants are a source of electrons and prevent oxygen from oxidizing other molecules. Oxygen is a free radical and can potentially damage cells in the body. By consuming antioxidants the free radicals are neutralized before they hurt organs or tissues. The oxygen present in the atmosphere will trigger a reaction.
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