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Medical Forum / General / Nutrition / June 2005A blow to natural food shoppers
Here in Ottawa I can't get natural frozen fruit juices any more, except orange! It seems that every last manufacturer (the last was Welch's grape juice) has stopped trying to sell natural juices, and is only selling 'punch' or 'cocktail'. With both these, the first ingredient is glucose/fructose :-( Is this now the case elsewhere as well? Anyone know of a manufacturer who is fighting the trend whom I might recommend to local stores? Welsh's still sells 100% grapejuices. But you're right--- there is a big trend toward selling people diluted juice. And an even bigger trend toward selling people "100% juice" blends which (if you look carefully) are blends of cheap white grape juice with other stuff, with the "other stuff" getting most of the label coverage. The economic pressure on Welsh's to do more of this must be unbearable, and I've long wanted to be a fly on the wall in their boardrooms whevever this issue comes up. There must be some people of giant and granite integrity there, even to have lasted as long as they have, with as few products as they have. In the US, the largest manufacturer trying to go out and out *against* the economic tide and still sell juices which are 100% single juice (blueberry, pomegranite, pear, etc), is Knudsen. Needless to say, a much smaller company that Welsh's. And mostly to be found in healthfood isles, because they sell a product which is necessarily a lot more expensive than the standard juice isle crap. But hat's off to them. A product that deserves special mention is the 100% "Rubyred" grapefruit juice, not from concentrate, sold by Florida's Natural (alongside the "not from concentrate" OJ in the paper cartons in the dairy isle). These days, it's getting pretty hard to find 100% grapefruit juice even sold by the old standbys like Ocean Spray. Yes, you'll find "100% juice" that says "grapefruit", but if you check the label in detail you'll see it's not 100% grapefruit juice. Very sneaky, these labeling laws. If it says "100% grapefruit juice," it legally has to be. But it can say just about anything ELSE, and not be. You can also find 100% pineapple juices from several sources. But oddly enough, most often in cans. SBH > In the US, the largest manufacturer trying to go out and out *against* > the economic tide and still sell juices which are 100% single juice > (blueberry, pomegranite, pear, etc), is Knudsen. Needless to say, a For SBH: What is your opinion of the health benefits of drinking pomegranite juice? >>For SBH: What is your opinion of the health benefits of drinking pomegranite juice? << COMMENT: Lots of indirect evidence that the kinds of things you find in all strongly colored red and blue and purple juices and berries are good for you. I drink them all myself, making a kind of all-purpose "blue juice" out of Knudsen blueberry and pomegranite juice with Welsh's grape juice concentrate added. I mix them in a washed-out just-finished gallon milk jug, which I use for the purpose only once before tossing (never re-use these things-- they grow specific bugs over time). It's a potent and very good drink. Whether it improves my health at all I cannot say, but it's good enough to have a shot of, most mornings, even if not. SBH George Lagergren wrote: >For SBH: What is your opinion of the health benefits of > drinking pomegranite juice? "Sbharris[atsign]ix.netcom.com" <sbharris@ix.netcom.com> replied: > Lots of indirect evidence that the kinds of things you find in all > strongly colored red and blue and purple juices and berries are good [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > cannot say, but it's good enough to have a shot of, most mornings, even > if not. SBH, thanks for your reply. btw, I could never use those gallon milk jugs since I gave up drinking cow's milk about ten years ago. Drinking cow's gave me strep throats and lung congestion. Ah, I just noticed that you'd specificed "frozen" concentrate. Yes, Welshes still sells that for grapejuice, but your store may not have it. It's the only 100% single-juice concentrate besides orange I can think of, though. SBH "Welch's still sells 100% grapejuices." Unfortunately, Welch's is 'represented' in Canada by the Motts company, and Motts doesn't answer email or letters about where to get Welch's products here. I'll try Knudsen - maybe they are more interested in customers who want to buy their products... >Is this now the case elsewhere as well? Anyone know of a manufacturer >who is fighting the trend whom I might recommend to local stores? Fructose and sucrose producers seems to have a world-wide campaign to buy and stop all concurrents making "natural" juices. |
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