Healthy Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice from the Smith Trees

If you buy orange juice at the store, you may lean towards the kind that advertises itself as “100 percent juice” and “not made from concentrate.” But have you ever wondered why every glass of it tastes exactly the same? 

That’s because the flavor of store-bought orange juice has more to do with chemistry than nature. For industrially-produced orange juice, after the oranges are squeezed, the juice is stored in giant holding tanks and the oxygen is removed from them, which allows the liquid to keep for up to a year without spoiling!!!

It also makes the juice completely flavorless. So the industry uses “flavor packs” to re-flavor the juice.

The photos below are of the Smith Family making Orange Juice from the organic oranges picked from our own trees.  Some of the oranges are blood oranges and gives the juice a red color.  We will get our vitamin C today!