What is it about fresh squeezed orange juice that makes it so good?
Light and energy from the sun travels the 8 light-minutes to earth,
and bathes orange trees in its glow. The orange tree pulls nutrients
from the soil and carbon dioxide from the air, and using the raw
sunlight, binds them together to create its own energy and sugars. The
tree’s roots drink water from the ground and this water gets filtered
through the entire length of the tree, from the root tips to the ends of
the branches. There is an ecosystem and nested cycles of metabolism,
life and death, reproduction. There are the bees which travel from
orange blossom to orange blossom with their own cycles of life
intertwined with the trees.
When you drink a glass of fresh orange juice, you can taste ALL of it.
Saori and I brought a carafe of fresh squeezed orange juice to a
group breakfast once, and upon having a glass for the first time, a
classmate remarked to the table, “This orange juice has changed my
life."
I thought he was using hyperbole, but he may have well meant it.
May 11, 2013
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