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Tropicana Trop50 Pulp Free

By: Lizabeth | Apr 15, 2009

Years ago, Tropicana launched an orange "juice" drink called Tropicana Light, which had half of the calories and less than half of the sugar in normal orange juice. As wonderful as that sounds, the results were more than disappointing - it was downright sour. Recently, they decided to re-launch the line as Trop50, by using Purevia as the sweetener.

PureVia is a stevia-derived natural no calorie sweetener. Note that this is not orange juice - it is made from orange juice and only contains 42% juice. When you start adding water and sweeteners to lower the calorie count, which is what Tropicana did with Trop50, well then, it's just an orange juice flavored beverage.

While three varieties exist (with pulp, pulp free, and fortified pulp-free), my store only carried the Pulp-Frree variety. Being a no-pulp OJ fan anyway, that was the one I brought home from the market. I gave the carton a good shake and poured up a glass of juice - and was surprised to see what looked like pulp. I did a double take; the carton was definitely marked "no pulp." Drinking mysteriously chunky orange juice is not a good way to start the day off! However, taking a sip proved all of my doubts wrong - this tastes like the regular Tropicana I know and love. While visually separated, the juice is smooth, sweet, tangy, and, of course, orange-y. There's no off sour or metallic flavors, and I didn't detect the bitter aftertaste that some people have noticed with Stevia. To be honest, if it weren't for the way this looks, I'd never have thought I was drinking anything other than 100% OJ. Check out the review from New England Bites and the snarky comments from Russ Thoughts.

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Tropicana Essentials with Fiber

By: Tanya Patrice | Dec 10, 2006

If you haven't heard about Tropicana Essentials yet - you better check the refrigerated juices in your supermarket. The Tropicana Essentials line offers 100% pure squeezed orange juice - with a little something extra! In this case, it is extra fiber, but I have also reviewed Tropicana Essentials Healthy Heart [link] which has added cholesterol lowering plant sterols.

Tropicana Essentials with Fiber tastes great - of course, because Tropicana has been making orange juice since the dawn of time! The benefit of this juice (other than the fact that orange juice is naturally good for you) is that there is 3 grams of fiber in every glass, which is 12% of your daily requirement. This is similar to the amount of fiber in 1 actual orange BUT the fiber is added is in the form of FiberSol-2, which is derived from corn. Is the source of the added fiber important to you? I would love to know, so please leave a comment and tell us!

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