Natalie's Orchid Island Juice Company 100% Florida Grapefruit Juice (Gourmet Pasteurized) Review

Natalie's Orchid Island Juice Company sells "fresh squeezed juice", where the fruit is picked, squeezed and shipped to you the day you order it. Love that concept. And they also have a "Gourmet pasteurized" juice, which, they say, is the same as fresh squeezed but with a minimal pasteurization time and temperature, with the resulting shelf life not being more than 26 days.

NUTRITION FACTS
Serving Size: 8 ounces
Calories: 100
Total Fat: 0%
Saturated Fat: 0%
Sodium: 0%
Carbohydrates: 23 grams
Fiber: 0%
Sugars: 22 grams
Protein: 1 gram

I had the opportunity to sample their 100% Florida Grapefruit Juice, which is gourmet pasteurized. It's delicious being both tart and sweet at the same time - or as they say, "a perfect blend of pink grapefruit, grown by world renowned Indian River citrus growers, famous for its sweet robust flavor."

Each 1 cup serving of Natalie's Orchid Island Juice Company 100% Florida Grapefruit Juice provides 100 calories from 22 grams of sugars. The ingredients are simply 100% Florida grapefruit.

I was sent samples to consider for review, but it's available at $3.99 for a 32 ounce bottle at my local grocery store. While I don't drink juices everyday because of all the sugars, you can bet that when I get a feeling for grapefruit juice, it will be Natalie's Orchid Island Juice Company 100% Florida Grapefruit Juice ... or Simply Grapefruit Juice (Review), which also has no added sugars.

{Website: Natalie's Orchid Island Juice Company}

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Izze Sparkling Grapefruit Juice Beverage Review

Izze Sparkling Juice is an all natural flavored juice beverage, made from pure fruit juice (from concentrate) and sparkling water. In fact, it contains 70% fruit juice according to the information on the bottle. Various flavors can usually be seen front and center at Starbucks, and so recently, I decided to try the Sparkling Grapefruit flavor instead of getting my usual coffee fix.

NUTRITION FACTS
Serving Size: 1 bottle (12 ounces)
Calories: 120
Total Fat: 0%
Saturated Fat: 0%
Sodium: 20 mg, 1%
Carbohydrates: 31 grams
Fiber: 0%
Sugar: 29 grams
Protein: 0 grams

Clearly something that is 70% fruit juice is going to have quite a bit of sugar, and a 12 ounce bottle of Izze Sparkling Grapefruit provides 120 calories from 29 grams of sugars ... which is about on par with 70% of a 1 cup serving of Simply Grapefruit Juice for example.

The ingredients label reads, pure juice made from apple, white grape, orange and graprefruit juice concentrates, sparkling water, citric acid, natural flavor, gum arabic, red radish juice (color).

The taste was not as tart as I thought it would be, in fact I thought it was a little too sweet, and the flavor is more like a hodgepodge of white grape & apple with sparkling water added. But, as I drank more of it, the tartness started to come out more and more, as did the grapefruit flavor. Still, I much preferred Izze Sparkling Pomegranate over this Grapefruit flavor.

I paid $1.95 for a 12 ounce bottle of Izze Sparkling Grapefruit, and wasn't really moved to purchase that flavor again. I would rather have a plain old grapefruit - a fruit I LOVE - or a glass of Simply Grapefruit Juice.

{Website: Izze}

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