Made with real lemons!

jtt

Member
Minute maid lemonade. 12 oz can. In big letters on the front it says MADE WITH REAL LEMONS!
Small print on the side of the can: less than 0.5% fruit juice
Interesting.
 

stdreb27

Active Member
well, think about it. when I make lemonaid. I squeeze 14-18 lemon's in the bucket, then add water. I'd say it is about 5% lemon juice and the rest is water. So that is some of the issue. But obviously it isn't made with only lemon's...
 

mrdc

Active Member
Juices have some of the most decpetive advertising.
 
I like it when they advertise a product as 100% juice. For example take apple juice with this label. It makes you want to think that they squeezed a bunch of apples and you are drinking something like it was don’t right in your kitchen. However, they super heat the juices and other stuff to clean and purify the juice and when it’s over, any of the good stuff that was in the juice is now gone. The vitamins (usually c) is added at the end of the process. To me, you are just drinking apple flavored sugar water with added vitamin c. The kids sure love it though!
 

dragonzim

Active Member
Years ago I worked for IBM and one of my customers was a company called IFF (International Flavors and Fragrances) They were one of the largest companies in the world that no one had ever heard of. They make many, many different food products that we all know and use, like the syrup that is used to make Coca Cola, the cream in Oreos, Snapple Iced tea and many other things. One interesting that I learned there is that a company is allowed to put pretty much whatever they want on the label. If a label for a Snapple Iced Tea says that it contains real lemon juice, all that means is that they can chemically reproduce the exact compounds that are what make lemon juice. So, they have their chemists analyze the lemon juice and work to reproduce it artificially in a lab. As long as they can duplicate the exact compound they can call it real lemon juice.
 
Also learned that when they make oreo cream, in the second to last stage before it actually becomes the cream filling that we all know and love, it is one of the most highly explosive substances on earth. All of the computers in the building where it was produced were encased in explosion proof housings that had their own dedicated air and electrical sources so that there could be no chance of a spark igniting the powder that makes the cream.
 

oceankid

Member
Quote:
Originally Posted by DragonZim http:///forum/thread/379915/made-with-real-lemons#post_3304096
Years ago I worked for IBM and one of my customers was a company called IFF (International Flavors and Fragrances) They were one of the largest companies in the world that no one had ever heard of. They make many, many different food products that we all know and use, like the syrup that is used to make Coca Cola, the cream in Oreos, Snapple Iced tea and many other things. One interesting that I learned there is that a company is allowed to put pretty much whatever they want on the label. If a label for a Snapple Iced Tea says that it contains real lemon juice, all that means is that they can chemically reproduce the exact compounds that are what make lemon juice. So, they have their chemists analyze the lemon juice and work to reproduce it artificially in a lab. As long as they can duplicate the exact compound they can call it real lemon juice.
 
Also learned that when they make oreo cream, in the second to last stage before it actually becomes the cream filling that we all know and love, it is one of the most highly explosive substances on earth. All of the computers in the building where it was produced were encased in explosion proof housings that had their own dedicated air and electrical sources so that there could be no chance of a spark igniting the powder that makes the cream.
 
Let's just eat real fruits instead of drinking commercialize juices.
 
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