Thursday, April 2, 2009

Vitamin C

I'm confused.

Looking at the side of an orange juice carton, I noticed a strange comment* in the list of ingredients: "Vitamin C (ingredient not found in regular orange juice)". 

All oranges contain vitamin C, don't they? So how is it that pressing them removes that vitamin C in the States, but not in Europe? Or does American vitamin C somehow manage to cling to the skin and pulp
("I'm not going in there. Some limey might drink me")?

If you know the answer to this conundrum, please write to: Confused Newbie, 123 My Street, Suburbia, USA.
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* Apart from the one that my 100% pure orange juice contains other ingredients, that is.

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