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Article: 'Orange' You Glad You Checked The Expiration Date? Study Says For Most Vitamin C, Drink Your Orange Juice Soon After Purchase
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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CHICAGO, April 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The vitamin C content of
increasingly popular ready-to-drink brands of orange juice can drop
from 45 milligrams per cup to zero within four weeks after opening,
according to a study published in the April issue of the Journal of
the American Dietetic Association.
The study, led by registered dietitian and professor of nutrition
at ASU, Carol Johnston, also found frozen reconstituted orange juice
contains more vitamin C than ready-to-drink juice, although the exact
amounts depend on when the juice is consumed following purchase.
Johnston and her co-author Dusti Bowling, a former undergraduate
student of Johnston, recommend that ready-to-drink orange juice ...