Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
Close to three quarters of U.S. households buy orange juice. Its popularity crosses class, cultural, racial, and regional divides. Why do so many of us drink orange juice? How did it turn from a luxury into a staple in just a few years? More important, how is it that we don't know the real reasons behind OJ's popularity or understand the processes by which the juice is produced?
Read more
In this enlightening book, Alissa Hamilton explores the hidden history of orange juice. She looks at the early forces that propelled orange juice to prominence, including a surplus of oranges that plagued Florida during most of the twentieth century and the army's need to provide vitamin C to troops overseas during World War II. She tells the stories of the FDA's decision in the early 1960s to standardize orange juice, and the juice equivalent of the cola wars that followed between Coca-Cola (which owns Minute Maid) and Pepsi (which owns Tropicana). Of particular interest to OJ drinkers will be the revelation that most orange juice comes from Brazil, not Florida, and that even "not from concentrate" orange juice is heated, stripped of flavor, stored for up to a year, and then reflavored before it is packaged and sold. The book concludes with a thought-provoking discussion of why consumers have the right to know how their food is produced.
Liked Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit Shares food, nonfiction, agriculture -
Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee—The Dark History of the Food Cheats Shares food, nonfiction, food history -
The End of Food Shares food, nonfiction, agriculture -
All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America? Shares food, nonfiction, economics
“People who read Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice tend to reach for these next.”
-
Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (California Studies in Food and Culture, 8)
-
The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them
-
The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of the World's Food Supply
-
The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book: A Guide to Whole-Grain Breadmaking
“If you want more of the same (history about food), start with these.”
“If it was the food that hooked you, try one of these.”
-
The Locavore's Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-mile Diet
-
Stuffed And Starved: Markets, Power And The Hidden Battle For The World Food System
-
The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business
-
Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats
“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”
-
Oranges
-
The Secret Family: Twenty-Four Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds and Bodies
- Juicing Magic: 50+ Recipes for Detoxification, Weight Loss, Healthy Smooth Skin, Diabetes, Gain Energy and De-Stress, ALONG WITH Quick, Easy and Colorful 3 Day Detoxification Plan;
-
Gregory the Terrible Eater