Comments on: Food Rotating for Picky Eaters https://ourgffamily.com/2008/02/food-rotating-for-picky-eaters.html/ My WordPress Blog Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Anonymous https://ourgffamily.com/2008/02/food-rotating-for-picky-eaters.html/#comment-13 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:58:00 +0000 http://205.134.241.29/~ourgff5/?p=1166#comment-13 I am a microeconomist (living in Tucson, AZ) trying to upgrade all of the individual food items I purchase for my family. I thought it would be interesting how I evaluated one food item: cranberry juice. The run-of -the mill brands of cranberry juice are sold in 64 oz. bottles and are 25% juice The high quality brands are 100% juice and are sold in 32 oz bottles. So, to do fair price comparisons I converted everything to 64 oz bottle equivilants and 100% juice equivalents. Therefore, the Ocean Spray 64 oz bottle of 25% juice and 75% water (at $2.75/bottle) becomes a 64 oz bottle of 100% juice at $11.00/bottle. The 32 oz. of 100% organic Knudson (at $8.49/bottle) becomes a 64 oz bottle of 100 % juice at $16.98/bottle and so on.

Here are three brands I located:
1) Ocean spray at Wal*Mart supercenter with no artifical flavoring, preservatives or coloring BUT with “natural flavor, fumaric acid and sodium citrate”. $11.00

2)Knudson (at Albertsons and Wild Oats supermarkets) Organic and 100% pure. Nothing added . $16.98

3) L & A (at Basha’s supermarket). 100% pure but not organic. Nothing added. $11.38

So to go from run of the mill to 100 % pure costs only an additional 38 cents, but to go from 100% pure to 100% pure AND ORGANIC costs an additional $5.60. As far as the taste is concerned both the Knudson and L & A brands, when diluted and sweetened with Splenda tasted the same. By the way the 100% juice has to be diluted and sweetened to be drinkable. But as far as the end result is concerned: the flavor of either of these was absolutely incredible compared to the Ocean Spray. So, since I decided that I couldn’t affort the ORGANIC I decided on the 100% pure L & A. Life is a compromise: I would love to go organic, but I can only afford 100% pure. Bill/Tucson

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