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I think most Tropicana in the US is from concentrate. "Pure Premium" is their sub-brand for NFC (not-from-concentrate) at the moment; they've previously called it "Tropicana Natural" but were sued since even NFC orange juice requires significant processing to make it last more than a few days.

(Which goes to the other point: most store brand orange juice comes from your local Dole, Minute Maid, or Tropicana distribution center, which is bottling/filling the cartons from concentrate. It's all the same supply chain, the only thing that's different is the brand tax.)

Edit: Weakened the claim about how much is from concentrate, because I'm having trouble finding a statistic.

Second edit: I'm wrong, the majority of orange juice sold in the US is NFC. So this is a market distinction I wasn't aware of.



> the only thing that's different is the brand tax

They have different flavor bombs.

Same as branded gas that all comes from the same regional depot with vendor specific additives dumped in the trailer before delivery.




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