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# Review of 6 Best-Selling Orange Juices: Nongfu Spring Scores Highest, and the Last Place Is...

> This article reviews six popular orange juice brands in China, evaluating them on color, aroma, sweetness, acidity, and taste. Nongfu Spring's 17.5° orange juice ranked first, while Huiyuan 100% orange juice ranked last. The article also explains the differences between juice types and how to read nutrition labels for healthier choices.

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Although the midsummer has passed, the hot weather refuses to leave. The editor feels helpless, so can only hold a glass of iced juice and lounge in the air-conditioned room in various ways.
Why juice? Simple: milk tea is too hot, cola makes you fat, and juice is the healthiest! Among all kinds of juices, orange juice's status is unshakable! (The editor loves orange juice the most!)
But with so many orange juices in the store's freezer, which one should you buy?
For this reason, we conducted a blind taste test of six popular orange juice brands currently on the market.
You never know until you test: different orange juices vary greatly from color to taste!
**Testing Instructions**
So which one is the favorite of our tasting team? Let's welcome our protagonist—orange juice!
**Brands Tested**
Minute Maid Pulpy Orange, Sunkist Orange Juice Drink, Huiyuan 100% Orange Juice, Wei Chuan Daily C, Sumei NFC Orange Juice, and Nongfu Spring 17.5° Orange Juice
Sample acquisition: major supermarkets
**Tasting Team Composition**
The tasting team consists of three men and three women: a health-conscious returnee male scholar, a male editor who dislikes sweets, a homebody female reporter with a sweet tooth and sensitivity to sourness, a gentle female art editor who doesn't like spicy food, a mature male editor with unique tastes, and a hardworking female team leader with picky tastes.
On-site work photo
**Evaluation Indicators**
Mainly score on five factors: color, aroma, sweetness, acidity, and taste. Scoring criteria are as follows:
Finally, a five-star scoring system is adopted, with full marks being five stars (oranges), decreasing accordingly. Ta-da! Now comes the exciting tasting report!
1**Nongfu Spring 17.5° Orange Juice**
Reference price: 13.3 yuan / 330 mL
Shelf life: 45 days, storage temperature 0~6°C
**Tasting Team Comments**
Returnee male scholar: Smells very light, no aroma.
Male editor: No pulp, tastes astringent, like the taste of a shy young girl.
Homebody female reporter: Sweetness is very light, faintly sweet, like a gentle breeze in a fresh anime, subtle yet present. Feels like a healthy juice with few additives.
Gentle female art editor: The taste suits me, delicious, I like it very much!
> Comprehensive Review
> This Nongfu Spring orange juice is an NFC juice, made with fresh fruit cold-pressed, claiming a golden sugar-acid ratio of 17.5, hence the name 17.5° orange juice.
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> The packaging meets Nongfu Spring's usual standard, very design-oriented. It has no obvious artificial flavor, moderate sweetness and acidity, with a slight astringency of fresh juice. However, if you like very sweet drinks, this may not be your cup of tea. The juice is relatively thick, and you can't taste pulp particles.
2**Wei Chuan Daily C**
Reference price: 6.5 yuan / 300 mL
Shelf life: 21 days, storage temperature 0~7°C
**Tasting Team Comments**
Male editor: Yellow with a lot of feel, but not tasty.
Homebody female reporter: Feels bitter, like watching an anime where your favorite couple is reversed, strongly rejected.
Mature male editor: The taste is not bad, I quite like it. The slight bitterness is like a mature man like me, with a charm of the times.
> Comprehensive Review
> Although Wei Chuan Daily C orange juice claims no added flavors or white sugar, its carbohydrate content is the highest among the six, reaching 12.6 g/100 mL.
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> Even so, some people still report a slight bitterness, but it received praise from one male taster. Its color is the purest among the six, and overall it ranks second.
3**Sumei 100% Fresh Orange Juice**
Reference price: 19.8 yuan / 300 mL
Shelf life: 90 days, storage temperature 0~5°C
**Tasting Team Comments**
Male editor: Sweetness is very light, I like this faint sweetness, like a girl's gentle smile.
Mature male editor: The taste is not bad, I quite like it.
Hardworking female team leader: The least favorite orange juice, like hating the daily overtime work.
> Comprehensive Review
> Sumei orange juice is the second NFC juice among the six, and it is also the most expensive. It received mixed reviews: males who don't like sweets praised it, while females with a sweet tooth didn't respond as well.
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> This orange juice has a lighter color and contains no pulp. Additionally, the gable-top carton packaging is not suitable for juice drinks because you can't see the color and consistency, and it's inconvenient for multiple servings after opening.
4**Minute Maid Pulpy Orange**
Reference price: 3.5 yuan / 450 mL
Shelf life: 270 days, storage temperature: room temperature
**Tasting Team Comments**
Returnee male scholar: Tastes a lot of food additives, not fitting my returnee temperament.
Male editor: Too sweet, indeed cheap goods are not good.
Gentle female art editor: Too sweet, no orange juice taste.
Mature male editor: Too sweet, feels like drinking too much will cause diabetes.
Hardworking female team leader: My favorite orange juice, like the moment of getting off work.
> Comprehensive Review
> Among the six, this one made male tasters feel they could get "diabetes" from sweetness, feeling full of sugar! Compared to the other five, its color is significantly brighter.
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> The orange pulp particles are appealing, and it doesn't have the astringency of other juices, but it feels less fresh than freshly squeezed juice.
5**Sunkist Orange Juice Drink**
Reference price: 7.2 yuan / 370 mL
Shelf life: 24 days, storage temperature: 2~8°C
**Tasting Team Comments**
Returnee male scholar: Why does it taste like chestnuts?
Sour-sensitive homebody: Tastes similar to Huiyuan, but with something else, and the texture is sticky.
Gentle female art editor: Not tasty. (The worst comment a gentle sister can say is "not tasty")
Mature male editor: The taste is okay, average.
> Comprehensive Review
> Sunkist orange juice drink has the thickest texture among the six. The ingredient list shows its orange pulp content is as high as 5 g/100 mL, but even so, it didn't win our tasting team's hearts.
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> As a blended juice drink, its taste is clearly less appealing than Minute Maid, and it seems to have a strange flavor that doesn't belong to oranges?
6**Huiyuan 100% Orange Juice**
Reference price: 3.5 yuan / 200 mL
Shelf life: 365 days, storage temperature: room temperature
**Tasting Team Comments**
Male editor: Bitter and sour, terrible!
Sour-sensitive homebody: Strong bitterness and sourness, almost no sweetness.
Gentle female art editor: Average taste.
Anti-counterfeit male editor: The color looks stale, but the taste is okay, though I detected a sweet potato flavor.
> Comprehensive Review
> Huiyuan orange juice is a concentrated reconstituted juice, with ingredients as simple as purified water and concentrated orange juice, like Wei Chuan Daily C. But the taste is far worse than Wei Chuan. Besides the common problem of concentrated reconstituted juices—bitterness—it also has the strongest sourness among the six.
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> Also, due to the sealed packaging, you can't see the color and state, and after pouring, you can see the juice is cloudy. None of the color, aroma, or taste indicators were satisfactory, so it ranks last.
**Time to Highlight Key Points!**
Overall, the more expensive NFC juices tend to taste better. What, you still don't understand what NFC is? And which juice is healthiest, which is most fattening, do you know the answers?
Follow the editor to highlight key points! After all, as a foodie, being fat is okay, but you must not become fat without knowing why!
**Juice Classification | Freshly Squeezed Juice is Freshest**
Speaking of juice, the healthiest is of course freshly squeezed juice. If making it at home is too troublesome, you can also buy it at stores.
However, store-made juices lack standardized production processes, so pay attention to hygiene conditions. When buying juice, especially watch the staff's operations, and beware of unscrupulous merchants using concentrated juice or jam to pass off as juice.
Other juices are divided into three types: blended juice drinks, concentrated reconstituted juices, and not-from-concentrate juices.
**Blended Juice Drinks**
**Representatives: Minute Maid Pulpy Orange, Sunkist Orange Juice Drink**
Juice drinks refer to beverages made from juice and water, with other auxiliary materials or food additives. These juices often contain a lot of sugar, and drinking too much can burden digestion!
**Concentrated Reconstituted Juice (FC)**
**Representatives: Huiyuan 100% Orange Juice, Wei Chuan Daily C**
For easy transportation and storage, manufacturers usually squeeze juice at distant fruit-producing areas, evaporate some water at high temperature to make concentrated juice, then transport it to production sites, and add water to dilute and restore it into juice.
**Not-From-Concentrate Juice (NFC)**
**Representatives: Sumei NFC Orange Juice, Nongfu Spring 17.5° Orange Juice**
NFC juice is made by squeezing freshly picked fruit and then pasteurizing and canning it directly. This type preserves the original flavor to the greatest extent, similar to homemade fresh juice, but has a short shelf life and must be stored at low temperatures.
Among these, NFC juice is generally fresher than FC juice, and both are superior to blended juice drinks.
NFC and FC juices are usually clearly labeled on the bottle. Blended juice drinks also indicate juice content. National standards require that the juice content in blended juice drinks must be ≥10%.
Additionally, you can judge from the ingredient list: NFC juice has only juice as the ingredient, possibly with pulp; FC juice typically has "water + concentrated juice"; while blended juice drinks have a long list of ingredients, including various flavors and additives.
**Health Secrets | Read the Juice Ingredient List**
Besides determining the type of juice from the ingredient list, you can also find answers for healthy drinking. Using the six orange juices from this subjective evaluation as examples, the editor will teach you how to interpret nutrition labels.
Among the six brands, Huiyuan has the lowest calories. The editor bought the 200 mL box, and drinking one box equals 356 kJ of energy. The highest calorie is Wei Chuan Daily C (300 mL), with 672 kJ, higher than a bowl of rice (565 kJ).
Unbelievable: why does healthy fruit juice become a high-calorie food? Is it because they also eat meat?
Hehe, that seems like a cold joke. Actually, the energy in fruit mainly comes from carbohydrates.
An edible orange provides about 124~296 kJ of energy, including mostly fiber. Fiber gives a feeling of fullness, making people control their intake, like eating one orange at a time.
But when fruit is juiced, it loses a lot of fiber while retaining sugars like fructose. Fructose is not regulated by the body's appetite control mechanism, so people may "drink too much" without realizing it. Regular juice drinks are usually around 300 mL, and even the lower-calorie Huiyuan orange juice (200 mL) exceeds the calories of an orange, let alone other juice drinks.
So be careful when drinking juice: a normal diet already meets daily energy needs. If you drink a lot of juice without increasing exercise, beware of weight gain.
Finally, the editor reminds you: juice is good, but in moderation. For health, it's better to eat fruit directly. That way, vitamins and fiber all go into your stomach without waste.
**Source: Global Food Expo**
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