Adulteration Case: Orange Juice

Adulteration case: orange juice

Introduction

Whole fruit orange contain high fiber and a lot of vitamin. If squeezed it into juice, is it still contain same amount of fiber and vitamin? Orange juice got two types which is fresh squeezed and adulterated. Natural orange juice means that the content of orange juice only pure orange juice without adding any additives or adulterants. Nowadays, there are many brands of orange juice that sold in market such as Minute Maid, Fruit Tree, Tropicana, Sunkist and others. Most of them label that their orange juices sold are 100% pure orange juice or fresh squeezed orange juice. However they had added adulterants into orange juice. What are adulterants? Adulterants are the material or chemical that added

There are many types of adulteration of orange juice. First, this is the most common method: dilute the orange juice with water. Manufacturer diluted the concentrated orange juice by water and adds the sugar to conceal the addition of water from a brix measurement. Usually , manufacturer will add the cheapest sugar into juice such as sweeteners from corn and cane however it will detected by using a carbon stable isotope analysis. So, the manufacturer will add in the beet sugar to increase the sweet level of diluted orange juice. The citric acid or ascorbic acid also added into fruit juice to increase the level of vitamin C since the orange juice was

Carbendazim was used to kill black fungus in 2008. Carbendazim will cause birth defects and infertile of male animals if we consumed it. Besides that, it also will because people have higher rate to get cancer and increased rates of infertility. Cadmium is a kind of trace minerals and it is harmful to human health. It will cause the increase of salivation, liver and kidney damaged and increases the risk to get prostate cancer.

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We can prevent the Carbendazim contaminated orange by banned the import of oranges from those country that use Carbendazim fungicide. FDA also needs to check the content of adulterated fruit juice times by times to prevent the fungicide scare happen again. The Malaysia government should set the rules that cannot use Carbendazim on the fruit trees. We can prevent consumed the sodium benzoate by banned the pulp adding into orange juice since it also not contains many nutrient. We can prevent the cadmium intakes by not using the cadmium plated vessel or