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Article: New orange juice with fewer calories on way to shelves
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 27, 2003
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If orange juice isn't healthy, what is?
The country's obsession with calorie-counting and sugar-busting is
taking a toll on a breakfast staple long considered as much a part
of a healthy diet as an apple a day. Because it packs more than 100
calories in a single glass and as much sugar as hot chocolate, many
have cut back on it.
Not to worry. Orange juice for dieters is soon to join nonfat ice
cream and low-carb beer in the grocery aisles.
In January, Tropicana Products Inc. plans to launch Light 'n
Healthy, the first reduced-calorie orange juice since Lite Citrus
Hill, which Procter & Gamble Co. yanked off the shelves more than a
decade ago.
With overall orange juice sales down, Tropicana ...