Right made by blending peeled oranges whole. It’s more like eating a whole orange, as opposed to just drinking the sugary, but tasty, liquid. We won’t dig into the health benefits of drinking pulpy orange juice, but, keep in mind that juice with pulp contains (a lot) more fibers than filtered squeezed orange juice. Yes, you can filter out the pulp, but if you prefer a slightly pulpy juice, it may actually be desirable. Which is why the resulting juice contains a lot more pulp. However, as opposed to the first method, none of these cells are filtered out. By breaking down all the cell walls, the orange juice is again released from the cells. Simply add the peeled orange pieces to the machine, turn it on and it will be broken down completely. Instead, you’d use a blender, or food processor. Once peeled, you can no longer use a juicer, there’s nothing that will hold the orange pieces together while they’re being pressed. You can also make orange juice from peeled oranges. Juicing is a great way to get just the inside, without any peel, but it’s not the only way. Also, the inner side, the pith, is also quite bitter in flavor. Despite the presence of flavorsome oils on the outside, the peel is too tough in texture.

You do not want any orange peel in your orange juice. Cross section of a juicy orange, both the in- and outside contain plenty of color molecules which are responsible for an orange’s color. However, for oranges, a simple hand held citrus press can already to the job.

For these fruits and vegetables you’ll need a dedicated machine, a juicer, to separate the juice from the rest of the product. Most fruits and vegetables cannot be turned into juice as easily as oranges can. The resulting pulp will have less than 2% of juice left behind, whereas at home there’s likely a lot more that’s left in your pulp. The pulp that is left behind in a juicer actually still contains a lot of juice! In factories, this pulp is therefore ‘washed’ to take out a lot more juice and have less waste at the end of the process. They are caught in the juicer, which has a little filter that only lets the juices pass through. Orange juice pulp is made up of the vesicles and cells that hold onto the juices. The main disadvantage of this method when used for making orange juice is that all the so-called pulp is left behind, in the juicer. Their insides are sufficiently delicate to be easily broken up. This method works great for most citrus fruits, just like lemons, limes, and grapefuits. An orange is cut in half and pressed on top of a cone to release its juices. If you need to squeeze a few oranges, it’s easy to do by hand, but for larger quantities, simple electric systems exist, that still work in the exact same way.

Even with just a slight effort, the juice comes pouring out. Simply cut an orange in half and press it on top of a citrus juicer. It’s what allows the first way of making orange juice: juicing. Unlike say and apple, or a pear, it’s easy to release the water from the orange. They contain a lot of flavorful water that is held up by a pretty delicate system of vesicles. Oranges happen to be perfectly suited for making into juice.

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