Real Juice, Your Way

Everyday people spend money on plastic bottles filled with 'juice', which is really juice concentrate powder and mostly water. The packaging is plastic and non-biodegradable, the water is heavy and adds tons of fuel wasted to ship the juice to our grocery shelves, not to mention hauling it home after we've purchased it. Why do manufacturers do this? Because you pay them $$$$ for WATER -- which increases their profits! Also you have no control over the ingredients, and it's funny to read some of the packaging which says 100% juice, but then lists a ton of other ingredients on the label. Read your labels, you might be surprised to find food coloring, sugar, and/or preservatives listed.

Instead, buy concentrated juice powders directly, and make as much or as little juice as you want, right at home in a reusable container. The juice concentrates are higher quality, you have control over the ingredients, and the juice powder has a much longer shelf life dry, than pre-mixed in your fridge. And per unit, it's much less expensive too!

I haven't done much searching, but this company came up while I was looking for organic concentrates, I'm sure there are others out there as well:

http://www.naturesflavors.com

• Mixing the juice in a re-useable glass pitcher (with a lid) avoids 'plastic' chemicals leaching into your drinks, and there is no plastic bottle to throw away or even haul to the recycling center.
  
• Avoid juice boxes & pouches in your kids lunch box, instead mix juice and pour into a reusable capped bottle.