What makes orange juice superior to a vitamin C tablet?
As Joy Dubost, RD, PhD “Resident Registered Dietitian” (Principal Nutritionist for Tropicana and PepsiCo) told me, nutritionists advise that it is best to get your vitamins from foods. She pointed out that getting your nutrition from natural foods is wise because these foods have vitamins and minerals that interact well with each other for most effective utilization of the nutrition within your body. Does Tropicana add vitamins to its juice in order to make it even healthier? Yes to some of the varieties. For example: Tropicana Pure Premium Calcium plus Vitamin D has been fortified with the calcium and vitamin D to give you the same levels per glass of this orange juice as you would get from a glass of milk. Does the flash pasteurization of the orange juice reduce the nutritional content of the orange juice from when it was originally oranges? Joy Dubost, RD, PhD had a very simple answer. “No. It does not change the nutritional content at all.” Why pasteurize the orange juice? Pasteuri
