The citation on using the orange peel is a Tropicana spokesperson response to a Baltimore Sun article in 2010.
>"Everything in the juice comes from the orange," she said. "One hundred percent juice is mixed with natural oils found in the peel. Nothing artificial is added."
I think you could synthesize the compounds in a lab and still get away with that statement. Barely.
Not that it matters whether the compounds are organically sourced and purified or synthesized, but they have a vested interest in making their product appear more natural and have been misleading consumers for a while.
>"Everything in the juice comes from the orange," she said. "One hundred percent juice is mixed with natural oils found in the peel. Nothing artificial is added."
I think you could synthesize the compounds in a lab and still get away with that statement. Barely.
Not that it matters whether the compounds are organically sourced and purified or synthesized, but they have a vested interest in making their product appear more natural and have been misleading consumers for a while.