Sunday, July 19th, 2009...2:22 pm
Win this basket from Tropicana and “Get Your Fruit On!”
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8/5/2009:
Starting today, reviews and giveaways will appear in a new section of this blog. Here is where I moved this post: http://whatscookingblog.com/reviews-and-giveaways/tropicana-gift-basket-giveaway/
7/19/2009
Now that the secret is out about my guest appearance on The Juice, I can tell you another secret! Tropicana is flying me out to Chicago, along with 10 other bloggers, for the Tropicana “Get Your Fruit On” weekend at the end of July. We will meet with their dietitian, learn about their sustainability programs, and attend a brunch with our readers at the Tropicana headquarters….
Continued here: http://whatscookingblog.com/reviews-and-giveaways/tropicana-gift-basket-giveaway/
11 Comments
July 19th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Thank you for this FANTASTIC opportunity. It’s not everyday that someone gets a chance to talk to someone with a welth of knowledge like this. So with that in mind.. this is my question:
Due to family health “tradition”, I am wondering.. How much fiber should a preteen and teen get in their daily diet. What is the best way that “THEY” would get it? (some foods & drinks that they might like).
July 20th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
my question is: how much juice is TOO much juice. my kids would drink orange juice (the calcium kind – Tropicana, in fact) all day long. I usually cut them off after a cup or two.
What’s the brunch on August 2? @imabima
July 21st, 2009 at 8:25 am
My questions is how does the fiber content of full-pulp OJ compare to no pulp. Does the pulp actually add ANY fiber? I like to eat whole fruit instead of juice because of the health benefits but if some juice is closer then others to whole fruit, that’d be good to know!
July 21st, 2009 at 10:37 am
Thanks ladies. These are fantastic questions and I will definitely post the answers as soon as I get them. I wonder if we will be serving more juice in the house after I learn more…or if we will stick to whole fruit, like we do now.
July 21st, 2009 at 6:40 pm
My question is: for a 6 year old child who is active, not overweight, how many fruit servings should she have daily? And as far as calcium, if the child is not drinking milk, how much calcium, for example, that found in fortified juice, should she have daily?
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:55 pm
the way i look at it, juice in moderation isn’t unhealthy. but if you drink it daily (or too much daily), then you’re cutting out half the fruit servings you could be eating. i enjoy juice, but i enjoy fruit more, and i couldn’t imagine choosing juice over fresh fruit on a regular basis. it’s a sometimes food for me not because it’s unhealthy, but because it’s redundant to whole fruit i already eat and love. obviously 100% juice drinking in moderation is a better choice than avoiding fruit completely for those folks out there that don’t get enough fruit in their diet.
so my question would be to them, how high do they heat the juice to prevent bacteria growth? and follow-on, what % of nutrients are lost during that heating process? i tried to find unpasteurized OJ at the grocery the other day and couldn’t!
how cool is your guest appearance?! congrats on the opportunity.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:30 pm
T – I know that if you pick one nutritional component of juice and try to “get enough,’ you will over-do some of the other nutrients. For example, to get enough calcium, you might get too much sugar. I’ll ask, though, to see if they have something different to say.
J- Thanks! Great to see you back here. Fantastic question – I never even thought about the pasteurization and its effects on nutrients!
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Yummy! I can never get enough of Tropicana!
July 27th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
I have four kids and have wondered the same thing: is juice bad? How does the sugar in 100 percent fruit juice affect the body of a child?
July 28th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Have a great time at the conference. That basket is gorgeous!
July 29th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Sorry, my e-mail was wrong on the previous post.
I would like to ask are they doing anything in their processing plants to minimize waste, either of water or electricity?
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