KC Craichy
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 But did you know that there is so much sugar in a glass of orange juice that, in an attempt to appear healthy, Coca-Cola® is comparing its sugar content to that found in orange juice? The obvious implication is that their soft drink is not a health risk because of its sugar levels. But just the opposite is true. orange juice is not a healthy drink because of its high sugar levels.
An 8-ounce glass of orange juice has almost the same amount of sugar in it as a regular Coke, a whopping eight to nine teaspoons of sugar. Guess how many teaspoons of sugar are necessary in your bloodstream? |
Marshall Editions
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 Drink an 8 oz glass of freshly squeezed orange juice every two to three hours for the first four to five days after quitting smoking. This will keep blood sugar from dropping, will clear nicotine out of your body, and provide a good amount of vitamin C, which is commonly depleted in smokers. However, do not drink orange juice if you are using a nicotine patch or gum, because you want to keep nicotine in your body. Other foods that are high in vitamin C include citrus fruits and juices, broccoli, peppers, strawberries, collard greens, mangoes, onions, radishes, and avocados. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Cod liver oil is another good source, although milk or orange juice fortified with vitamin D has some, but there are only 100 units in an 8 oz glass of vitamin D-fortified milk and orange juice. So you would have to drink 10 glasses of milk or 10 glasses of orange juice a day. You cannot get your vitamin D easily from your diet. And even if you take a multivitamin, a multivitamin contains 400 international units of vitamin D, only 40% of what you need. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In my case I prefer it with lemonade or with orange juice in the morning. I love orange juice, and I put it into the orange juice and eat it wit the beverage. My wife uses it over a salad. There are people who love hamburgers – you know, "hamburger" is a bad word today -- and they like to spread it over the hamburger before cooking. They find a way.
Mike: Chia hamburgers.
Ayerza: Yes, it's funny but it's true. There are many ways to do it.
Mike: Well, those are good suggestions. Because it's a nutty taste, and it's crunchy but it's not too hard. It's not like chewing on stones or anything. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's why pasteurized orange juice, for example, is nutritionally inferior to freshly-squeezed orange juice.
The same is true with pomegranate juice, or blueberry juice, or even cherry juice. Nothing is quite as good as the fresh juices, which is why I strongly recommend the daily consumption of blended smoothies using a Vita-Mix and some raw, fresh ingredients. When you can get pomegranate seeds in season, it's always better to eat them fresh. They're crunchy and sweet, so buy 'em when you can. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 The juice is mixed up with the bread, through the normal action of the stomach. The orange juice is trapped in the stomach for longer than it should be because of the bread, and the natural sugar in the juice starts to ferment. The acidic value of the orange juice, in turn, inhibits the digesting ability of the starch-digesting enzyme, ptyalin, and so the partially digested starch in the bread starts to ferment. The result—indigestion!
And what gets blamed? The orange juice! |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Pour boiling water over the couscous and then add the orange juice, apricots, and orange zest. Stir, then cover and let stand for 5 minutes. Fluff the mixture with a fork and serve immediately.
Variation: Substitute lemon juice and zest for orange juice and zest.
A simple rendition of a side at a local Mexican restaurant that I like to frequent. Easy and delicious. Remember: Corn is a grain! |
Ron Garner
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 In addition, part of the program calls for taking a teaspoon of cream of tartar powder in a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice (not concentrated or processed) each evening before going to bed. This helps to remove nicotine from the body. He said that since nicotine tends to accumulate around two glands in the brain called the hypothalamus and amygdala, the mix of cream of tartar and orange juice helps to drain nicotine from the glands during sleep. When nicotine is removed from the body, it normally sets up a craving for the nicotine to be replenished. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 In fact, the Harvard Nurses' Health Study, which included more than 87,000 people, showed a 2 5 percent lower risk of stroke in those who drank one glass of orange juice a day (though those results may have been due to other healthy habits of the juice drinkers). And many of the cancer-fighting limonoids (see below) are also present in the juice. But compared to the whole fruit, orange juice is a second-class citizen and contributes far too much sugar to our diet; it doesn't hold a candle to the health benefits of the whole orange. |
| On my way to the studio I picked up a well-known brand of "single-serving" orange juice drink from the local 7-11. Shortly after the "debate" began, I simply held the bottle up, and read the ingredients out loud. As I recall, the first two ingredients were water and sugar and the total carb (sugar) content was somewhere around 50 g. But wait, said my opponent. Look how much better it is than soda! "Better than soda?" I said. "Yes. Does that make it 'good'? No. It makes it 'better than soda.'"
Game over.
Orange Juice Can't Compete with Whole Oranges
Don't get me wrong. |
Andreas Moritz
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 For instance, freshly squeezed orange juice has a negative ORP of -250. Although we can only drink comparatively small amounts of orange juice in a day without becoming overburdened by the sugar it contains, we can drink as much ionized water as we wish in a day (although it is generally best not to exceed 8 glasses per day).
Ionized water also contains hydroxyl ions. These are oxygen molecules with an extra electron attached to them, as are such antioxidants vitamins A, C and E. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 Because orange juice contains so many phytochemicals, shown in numerous tests to have powerful health benefits including anticancer effects, I am hesitant to tell people to stop drinking orange juice or eating oranges. A safer course may be to squeeze your own from organically grown oranges. You must investigate the organic grower, though, because some use fluoride-containing pesticides.
If your schedule will not permit this, I would suggest reconstituting low-acid orange juice concentrate using distilled water. |
KC Craichy
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| But just the opposite is true. orange juice is not a healthy drink because of its high sugar levels.
An 8-ounce glass of orange juice has almost the same amount of sugar in it as a regular Coke, a whopping eight to nine teaspoons of sugar. Guess how many teaspoons of sugar are necessary in your bloodstream? Only one. Your body and brain tightly regulate one tablespoon of sugar in the bloodstream for proper brain function. So where does all that extra sugar go when you drink a Coke or a glass of fresh orange juice? |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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| Because orange juice contains so many phytochemicals, shown in numerous tests to have powerful health benefits including anticancer effects, I am hesitant to tell people to stop drinking orange juice or eating oranges. A safer course may be to squeeze your own from organically grown oranges. You must investigate the organic grower, though, because some use fluoride-containing pesticides.
If your schedule will not permit this, I would suggest reconstituting low-acid orange juice concentrate using distilled water. |
Bill Sardi
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 As examples, lime has a pH of about 2 (very acidic), orange juice is about 4 (acidic), meats typically are about 6 (mildly acidic), and eggs about 7 to 8 (neutral to "base'). Base is another term for alkaline. Base foods tend to neutralize acidic foods. If consumption of alkaline foods is excessive, then appetite is suppressed.
Baking soda has a pH of about 8 and milk of magnesia a pH of over 10, which is why they are used as antacids. You can refer to this FDA website for information on the acidity of several foods: http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/app3a.html. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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| Orange Dressing: Use orange juice and add 1 teaspoon grated orange zest to the basic recipe.
6. Lime Dressing: Use lime juice and add 1 teaspoon grated lime zest to the basic recipe.
7. Pomegranate Dressing: Replace juice with pomegranate juice.
8. Blueberry Dressing: Place V4 cup fresh blueberries (about 12) in a blender and add all remaining ingredients for basic dressing, using lemon juice and increasing the amount to 4 tablespoons. Blend until blueberries are finely chopped and dressing is smooth. Thin with additional water if desired. |
| Mix the chicken, salt, pepper, grapes, walnuts, thyme, orange juice, and yogurt. Blend well.
Serve over baby spinach.
Alternative Preparation Method: For Chicken Salad with Mango, Soy Nuts, Cilantro, and Lime, do not add the grapes, walnuts, and thyme. Instead substitute 2 tablespoons roasted soy nuts, % cup diced mango, x/2 cup roughly chopped cilantro, and 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice.
Variation—Tuna: Substitute 3 ounces of canned, drained low-sodium tuna in spring water for the 3 ounces of cooked chicken. |
| Chicken Salad with Thyme, Walnuts & Grapes
This refreshing salad has a surprise sweetness from the grapes and orange juice along with a wonderful crunch from the walnuts. For a change, see the variation for Mango Chicken Salad. |
Bill Sardi
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| The most popular plant-based foods consumed by Americans (in order of consumption) are iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, French fries, orange juice and onions.
The mixed message
So just when you are all set to load up on antioxidants, especially the polyphenols, the current advice you are likely to find in the lay press is to forget about pills and capsules. For example a Los Angeles Times article published in 2003 said: "Several larger research studies have found that people who took antioxidant supplements received no greater protection from chronic diseases than those who didn't... |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So you would have to drink 10 glasses of milk or 10 glasses of orange juice a day. You cannot get your vitamin D easily from your diet. And even if you take a multivitamin, a multivitamin contains 400 international units of vitamin D, only 40% of what you need. So you would have to make a conscious effort to take a multivitamin, drink 2 glasses of milk, drink a glass or two of orange juice fortified with vitamin D and eat salmon to get the amount of vitamin D that you require to satisfy your body.
Adams: Or you could just walk outside and get natural sunlight on your skin.
Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I love orange juice, and I put it into the orange juice and eat it wit the beverage. My wife uses it over a salad. There are people who love hamburgers – you know, "hamburger" is a bad word today -- and they like to spread it over the hamburger before cooking. They find a way.
Mike: Chia hamburgers.
Ayerza: Yes, it's funny but it's true. There are many ways to do it.
Mike: Well, those are good suggestions. Because it's a nutty taste, and it's crunchy but it's not too hard. It's not like chewing on stones or anything.
Ayerza: And it's very interesting. |
Bill Sardi
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| European Journal Clinical Nutrition 60: 280-06, 2006] Dark-green, leafy vegetables, oranges, orange juice, asparagus, beans, eggs and fortified foods (cereal) are good dietary sources of folic acid, though most adults will benefit from taking a supplement since this vitamin is destroyed by heat during cooking. [American Journal Clinical Nutrition 28:459-64, 1975]
There is a relative 59% increased risk for breast cancer among women who consume alcohol and have low intake of folic acid. |
| Health authorities have for a long time erroneously suggested that 60 mg of vitamin C, the amount in a glass of orange juice, is sufficient to meet health needs. The newly updated Recommended Daily Allowance, 200 mg, is certainly not adequate to prevent colon cancer, particularly among smokers and drinkers whose health habits deplete vitamin C. The false notion that high-dose vitamin C is rapidly excreted from the body and creates nothing more than "expensive urine" should be dispelled. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Tips: Eat a salad or other high-fiber foods before consuming juices made from concentrate (including pom juice, grape juice, orange juice, blueberry juice or even apple juice). These might include a bowl of oatmeal with extra oat bran, a fresh apple (which contains plenty of fiber), whole grains that are well-chewed, or fiber supplements such as glucomannan. You might also add cinnamon to your oatmeal or breakfast cereal, since cinnamon helps regulate blood sugar and effectively lowers the glycemic index of anything you eat during the same meal. |
H.J. Roberts, M.D.
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 These data indicate the following:
• orange juice and grapefruit juice average as much as ten times more ethanol, and from two to ten times more acetylaldehyde, than methanol.
• The concentration of methanol is higher in fresh-squeezed orange juice compared to the small amounts in pasteurized orange juice (22mg/liter), frozen concentrate (3.4mg/liter), reconstituted juice from concentrate (trace/one glass), and orange juice in tin cans (trace). |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 They received either orange juice containing 400 meg of folic acid per day or a supplement containing the same amount. Overall, the supplement folic acid was better absorbed than the folic acid from orange juice. per day in order to reduce the risk of birth defects (page 63). Some doctors also extend this recommendation to other people in an attempt to reduce the risk of heart disease (page 98) by lowering homocysteine (page 235) levels. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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| Usually, it accompanies something like toast or a sandwich or a bagel. Now orange juice (of the freshly squeezed variety) takes about fifteen minutes to one hour to digest and move out of the stomach. Toast or bread needs approximately two to four hours to move out of the stomach. Imagine what happens next. The juice is mixed up with the bread, through the normal action of the stomach. The orange juice is trapped in the stomach for longer than it should be because of the bread, and the natural sugar in the juice starts to ferment. |
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