Originally posted by TheMur
reply to post by Akasirus
when the chemicals are actually reacting they produce water...go figure...
What does this have anything tomdo with whether it is harmful or not? A chemical is very simply a form of matter that has a contestant chemical
composition. Water itself is a chemical. There are dozens of other chemicals in the oranges and the orange juice. Most chemicals are completely
benign, if not required for life.
This post words a very harmless step in juice manufacturing as if it is a plot against you, and you should be outraged. The amazing thing is that
people actually ARE outraged. Why? I would just like to know why this flawed interpretation of a study makes you orange juice any better or worse for
your than before you knew (Hint: it doesn't)
Aseptic storage is a completely harmless process and nearly everything you drink, and many things you eat, are stored this way. If you want your
precious fruit juice outside of fruit season, and your other drinks to have a shelf life of more than a couple days, you have to remove the oxygen
from it so bacteria cannot grow. Even fresh tomatoes have the air removed and are stored for year round shipment. This doesn't change the composition
of the product, or alter the taste. The oxygen they removed doesn't somehow remove all the flavoring. Drinking the juice months after it was picked
does change the flavor however, and that is all this addition tries to remedy.
Unless you can somehow prove that this 'chemical' is harmful, there is nothing to worry about here. You tell someone there is a small amount of
pineapple flavoring in their orange juice and they think "Oh, that's kind of interesting". But you tell someone there's a CHEMICAL added to their
orange juice, and without a second thought they are swearing it off forever. It's the height of ignorance. It is easy to be ruled by your emotions,
it is much harder to use your brain and think rationally about the information presented before jumping to conclusions.