Guest guest Posted November 11, 2007 Report Share Posted November 11, 2007 In a message dated 11/11/2007 9:44:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, writes: Pasteurized (cooked) orange juice, or any fruit juice, makes your body acidic. Therefore, it actually leeches calcium out of your bones to neutralized the acid! Raw fruit and juice is the only way to go, if you are going to consume it all the time. So drinking fortified juice (i.e. OJ with added calcium) will only make it somwhat neutral, and not give you any usable calcium. ----------------------------- Because I live in Florida where we grow grapefruit sized navel oranges, I feel a need to get into this conversation!!! In November and December, when the navel oranges are at their peak of perfection, we buy bags and bags of them. I take them home and juice them (of course I leave the pulp in!!). I do this by hand with a rotating squeezer. I do not like those that press the juice out as most of the time they also squeeze the oil from the skin, which is a bit bitter. As they are juiced, they are put into clean plastic containers and frozen. I freeze an entire year's supply. (Yes, I have more than one freezer!) When defrosted, it tastes exactly like it was just squeezed. But don't use containers that are too large as you want to use it up fairly soon when you defrost it. Frankly, I cannot stand store bought orange juice. It tastes bitter to me. This way, it is like have fresh squeezed sweet orange juice all year, and NO ADDITIVES!!! Dianne, now in Boca Raton, FL Event Coordinator, American Embroidery Conference _http://au.AmericanEmbroideryConference_ (http://au.AmericanEmbroideryConference) AEC Conference, Marietta, Ga. - March 26th thru March 30th, 2008 _www.braeco.com_ (http://www.braeco.com/) ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 12, 2007 Report Share Posted November 12, 2007 Dianne, thanks for the info that is wonderful to know! We moved to FL last year and while our lot did not have any fruit trees, several neighbors do. They set out boxes and boxes during Dec. w/notes to take them. They were huge and delish. One orange makes 4ox or more of juice. I have longed for this time to come around again because I have never tasted orange juice this good and I felt better with lots of fresh juice during those 2 months (paige orange/tangerines were amazing too). My hubby picked up an attachment to my KitchenAid mixer like the hand juicer, except it rotates for you. Messy but works nicely too w/o getting bitter oils. Now, I will have to add containers for freezing to my shopping list! I had no idea the flavor would not change. Thanks for the tip, Valerie. Oh - we also planted some trees. We have 5 big grapefruit growing on 3'tall tree..... The oranges were planted later and did not produce this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 13, 2007 Report Share Posted November 13, 2007 Thank you for sharing the idea Dianne. I freeze lemon and lime juice from our trees in ice cube trays. Pretty soon the oranges will ripen, and since we got bees, this year the tree has a lot more oranges! We like it for juice (they are tasty but seedy) so I will do what you described. Do you use ziplock bags? what containers work best? Thanks! Cabrita@los angeles , Nanapom wrote: > > > > In a message dated 11/11/2007 9:44:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > writes: > > Pasteurized (cooked) orange juice, or any fruit juice, makes your body > acidic. Therefore, it actually leeches calcium out of your bones to neutralized > the acid! Raw fruit and juice is the only way to go, if you are going to > consume it all the time. So drinking fortified juice (i.e. OJ with added > calcium) will only make it somwhat neutral, and not give you any usable calcium. > ----------------------------- > > > Because I live in Florida where we grow grapefruit sized navel oranges, I > feel a need to get into this conversation!!! > In November and December, when the navel oranges are at their peak of > perfection, we buy bags and bags of them. I take them home and juice them (of > course I leave the pulp in!!). I do this by hand with a rotating squeezer. I > do not like those that press the juice out as most of the time they also > squeeze the oil from the skin, which is a bit bitter. > As they are juiced, they are put into clean plastic containers and frozen. > I freeze an entire year's supply. (Yes, I have more than one freezer!) > When defrosted, it tastes exactly like it was just squeezed. But don't use > containers that are too large as you want to use it up fairly soon when you > defrost it. Frankly, I cannot stand store bought orange juice. It tastes > bitter to me. This way, it is like have fresh squeezed sweet orange juice all > year, and NO ADDITIVES!!! > > Dianne, now in Boca Raton, FL > Event Coordinator, American Embroidery Conference > _http://au.AmericanEmbroideryConference_ > (http://au.AmericanEmbroideryConference) > AEC Conference, Marietta, Ga. - March 26th thru March 30th, 2008 > _www.braeco.com_ (http://www.braeco.com/) > > ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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