Orange juice is kind of a breakfast tradition, right?
Or at least that’s the picture we paint when we visualize breakfast as it should be.
It may not be all it’s cracked up to be.
Makes sense it’s made with oranges, right?
Just one 12-ounce glass of OJ contains aboutnine teaspoons of sugar about the same as a can of soda.
That’s an enlightening number, when you think about it.
Would you crack open a can of Coke with your breakfast and think you were making a healthy choice?
Drinking these juices frequently cancontribute to erosion of the enamelin your teeth, which may eventually lead to decay.
Common knowledge teaches us that choosing the not-from-concentrate option is probably fresher, right?
Bad news: even that not-from-concentrate juice is far from fresh, and not 100 percent juice.
So much for fresh from the grove!
Unfortunately, both methods also strip the juice of much of its flavor.
The best way to avoid all these additives?
Skip the store-bought stuff and justmake your own.
Whatever the reason, orange juice manufacturers are feeling the squeeze.
The disease, calledcitrus greening, causes the fruit production of orange trees to decline.
