be in the orange the fruits so popular they named a color of to it
America drugs through two and a half billion liters and the sweet juice every
year
at most a bit comes from florida where they harvest and squeeze over $30
billion oranges a year
to keep the juices flowing Florida
the Sunshine State homer disneyworld
Miami Vice hanging chads and
oranges millions upon millions of oranges
in fact orange trees outnumber people
321 in Florida and they produce over six million tonnes of citrus fruit every
year
handle most beloved ends up as breakfast orange juice
to grow oranges what you need is good soil
large quantities a blissful Florida sunshine
and buckets and buckets a brain they don't like to advertise it
but the Sunshine State is also the sake state
parts of Florida are among the wettest places in the US
with up to 180 centimetres a brain a year not so good if you came here for a
beach holiday
but great for farmers like Tom kirschner this is what adds up to you
giving it a good environment a great features adequate rainfall
to produce large crock with water to Houston
thanks to the sizzling sunshine in
dismal downpour toms able to grow in five different varieties and oranges
here
they do this because each variety
ripens at different times have year which means you can enjoy
OJ only around but how do they know when orange grove is ripe for harvesting
to guarantee that the Jews will be liquid sunshine
the sugar to water content is analyzed yielding a measure known as the BRICS
when it's at least 10 percent sugar the oranges are ripe for the picking
but there's no substitute for the taste test
can't be had great to make our Jewish
the front might be tasty but it's not going to make
juice if it's left on a tree they need to be picked
and with millions have oranges ripening at once they need to be picked fast
if you want to get through T in a hurry
you need one of these terrifying contractions
or as they like to call it here the Oxbow 3220
this magnificent machine
is what's known in the trade as a continuous canopy Shaka
and this particular machine was designed by Tom this
engages the phone into the city and shake said
doing tomorrow
shakers violent enough to sever the group them
then the fruit bowls and getting the same the ok spoken harvest incredible
two times and oranges every minute
this performance comes at a price a pair of these mechanical orange pickers will
set you back a million dollars
just as well toms good enough work to keep them busy
picking two million boxes and oranges totaling
eighty-one thousand tons up from per year
once the oranges have been picked the race is on
to make sure your breakfast OJ tastes as fresh as can be
so the front is shipped out in these four hundred horsepower
transport trucks twenty thousand kilos to the time
the trucks bring them to an OJ processing plant
like this one in Lake Wales Dave crumbling
make sure they don't run out and oranges will do about 280
truck today
and now each edye truck the whole about 220,000 orange in 24 hours will be about
24 million pieces approved it will run through here so more often than not
dave gets his daily doses vitamin C to begin with
the oranges a washed-out the trucks
the fruit is then carried along two kilometres a conveyors
into the processing plant where it's great the oranges are separated by size
and it's time to extract the juice
but these days you won't find gangs have sad looking for in squeezes with soul
rests
this is orange juice squeezing on an industrial scale
this fearsome machine drops each orange into a ring up metal prongs
which squeeze out the juice before ejecting the pit and people
from orange to OJ
in the blink of an eye of course when it comes to OJ
the world is divided into two great opposing camps
one likes its moons the other with bits
said were loaded the pulp that has been carefully screened
is added back into the Jews to create the wholesome
all sent to go J with all the good stuff still in it
the OJ is now ready to be poured into cartons
it takes two dozen oranges to make enough juice to fill
each 1.89 need to copy
but quantity counts for nothing unless the quality is good enough
to keep orange juice the world's favorite breakfast table
there pallets that can tell a Beaujolais from a burgundy
in an instant and knows is that can with
a chanel number nineteen from a hundred paces well these guys do the same for OJ
and expert OJ taste second spot minute variations in taste
composition and acidity 10
here
there are 11 different measures of quality
only when a Bachelor JTX every box
is it fit to be shipped all that effort
means this factory alone turns three billion oranges
into over 250 million liters have juice every year
which makes delicious fresh OJ a luxury
we can all enjoy I love art yes I love or
fears
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