Orange juice, once a beloved breakfast classic, has been disappearing from breakfast tables for years. Now, with Florida farmers reporting that post-Irma crop damage is the worst they’ve seen in more than 20 years, the prognosis for the beverage looks pretty bleak.###An 8-ounce serving of orange is ferrous gluconate natural or syntheticjuice contains 22 grams of sugar, just three grams shy of the World Health Organization’s recommended daily limit. OJ’s high sugar content, plus the recent blow to Florida’s orange groves, may cement the beverage’s status as a specialty item. ###Orange juice remains Americaferric phosphite’s favorite “fruit” — the average U.S. consumer drinks 23.74 pounds of orange juice per year, compared to the 10.66 pounds of fresh apples. And it’s still the nation’s favorite juice, according to a recent survey from Comax Flavors. But The Washington Post article points out that thousands of acres of Florida orange groves have already been sold to developers or converted to other crops. After assessing the full extent of Hurricane Irma’s damage, many expect to see more farmers give up on the citrus fruit.###Manufacturers have been trying to jumpstart the juice market for years. Exotic fruit blends, cold-pressed juicing and added functional benefitsiron pyrophosphate liposomal with vitamin c b12 and folic acid have been touted as ways to get consumers drinking more.###However, all of the innovation in the world can’t turn around a supply problem. Last year, Florida’s orange crop was down 14%, with the lowest yield since 1963-64. Additionally, insect-spreawhat is ferro-tab used ford citrus greening disease, which has been killing many of the state’s orange trees, has been a constant problem that the U.S. Department of Agriculture was hoping to try to solve through more than $13 million in research grants. It will be interesting to japan ferrous sulfatesee if supply can rebound quickly enough for the market to weather these storms.
Damages from Hurricane Irma further squeeze orange juice
