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The flip side of energy drinks: Insomnia, palpitations and elevated anxiety
And Youngstown Grape Distributors Inc. Recalls Happy Moose Juice Tropical Roots and Happy Moose Strawberry Fields Because of Possible Health Risk
Jan van Iperen
October 08, 2024
For Professionals in the Juice and Citrus industry
🌪️ Hurricane season is in full swing. I hear concerning messages about the path and outlook… Citrus in Florida is at peril… again and still.
Hope everyone is prepared. Stay safe.
🗓️ For the first time in forever I will not attend Juice Summit and Sial. Feels a bit awkward, but at the same a better choice this year. ICBC covered so much and in this phase, it makes a lot of sense to be on-site in California.
Nevertheless, if you want to reach out, say hi, and catch up… just reply to this message.
Leather-like material from citrus waste wraps pendant lamp at London design festival
🧃 Juice News
Consumption of energy drinks is becoming more and more popular — particularly among adolescents — and scientists have gone public with their unease when it comes to the potential impacts on the cardiovascular system and mental health of intense or sustained consumption of these beverages. Studies have found evidence of increased insomnia, heart palpitations, anxiety and gastrointestinal conditions associated with drinking energy beverages.
When Clearly Canadian launched in 1987, it was a bit of an anomaly. Doug Mason and Gordon Sim founded the company in British Columbia, where they had a spring. They began experimenting with fruit fusions using the water and serving it to guests—who loved it. At the time, the beverage market consisted of major soda brands, still water, and plain sparkling water—and “Clearly Canadian was meant to be a bridge between high-sugar, full-of-artificial-stuff soda, and unflavored sparkling water.”
It looks like a beer, pours like a beer and even has the frothy, foamy head of a beer.
But this non-alcoholic canned drink has more in common with an oolong than a lager.
The bubbling bronze concoction is the brainchild of Tania Stacey and Kym Cooper, a pair of tea enthusiasts who set out to create a tea unlike anything their parents or grandparents would drink.
Dirty sodas are typically made up of a base soda and infused with various flavors from syrup and creams and poured over pebble ice. Imagine a cross between a Shirley Temple and an egg cream. A root beer float with melted ice cream. A cream soda made with actual cream. They’re concoctions made of a soda of your choosing, cream, sometimes fruit, and flavored syrups like vanilla or cranberry and, according to some, a believer’s godsend.
… because a portion of the production made did not complete the High Pressure Processing (HPP) treatment, which is used to prolong the product shelf-life, prevent spoilage, and significantly reduce the risk of pathogens such as Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes and diarrheagenic E. coli. Those organisms could lead to serious illness if consumed.
To date, the beverage industry has committed $39.5 million in funding nationwide, says the group, with those investments estimated to yield nearly 458,000 new tons of recycled PET and some 43,500 additional tons of recycled aluminum throughout the next decade.
The cross-country comparative data on sugar-sweetened beverages taxes collated by the World Bank shows that India has one of the highest tax rates for carbonated soft drinks at a total tax rate of 40 per cent as of 2023.
Launched in 2020, Recoup offers a line of Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) prebiotic sparkling hydration beverages that come with 3 grams of prebiotic fiber from agave inulin fiber and a "functional dose of ginger," which improves digestion, Hartman said.
Each beverage contains no added sugar, is sweetened with maple tree water for five grams of sugar and comes in Pineapple Passion Fruit, Lemon Lime and Watermelon Blood Orange.
🍊 Citrus News
Futures in New York gained as much as 3% in New York as the hurricane rapidly intensified in strength over the last 24 hours. Citrus groves in key producing counties are in the storm’s potential path, again risking trees that are just recovering from the impact of Hurricane Ian in 2022.
Commodity Weather Group said potential wind damage from the storm could threaten two-thirds of northern Florida’s citrus production, while meteorologist Jim Roemer of Best Weather Inc. said a path cutting across the state south of Tampa could hurt up to 20% of groves.
Hurricane Milton is currently expected to be a major hurricane when it makes landfall on Florida’s west coast on Oct. 9. It will likely impact a large portion of the state. Florida citrus growers are strongly advised to make storm preparations now.
Peter Chaires, New Varieties Development and Management Corp. executive director, spoke about citrus breeding at the Cold Hardy Citrus Workshop on Sept. 24 at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension office in Perry.
Chaires said HLB tolerance “is an essential element of everything that’s being done in the breeding program with a stronger emphasis than anything else in orange and orange-like varieties that would contribute to the processing industry.”
South Africa exports millions of tonnes of citrus each year, accounting for a large portion of the country’s agricultural exports.
Major destinations include the European Union, the Middle East and Asia.
In recent years, buyers from these regions have placed increasing emphasis on sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors when sourcing agricultural products.
Adopting solar energy can help citrus farmers meet these growing ESG demands.
🔬 Research Worth Reading
Melatonin reduced postharvest losses in all studied fruits related to its antisenescent properties, while the beneficial impact of tryptophan in extending shelf life was fruit-specific and appeared to be partly mediated by melatonin. Melatonin and tryptophan must be considered as active components of new formulations for extending the shelf life of red fruits during post-harvest processing.
“In a search for treatments against HLB, we looked to endophytes of survivor citrus trees—in other words, trees that are HLB positive but showed only mild symptoms and continue to bear fruit. By studying 342 endophytes of survivor trees, we discovered five bacterial endophytes capable of producing novel antimicrobials.”
Considering promising amylase properties, amylase-producing Bacillus strains from rice mill soil can be fermented for large scale amylase production providing application for industrial purposes including fruit juice clarification and antimicrobial activities. It will also overthrow the requirement of employing expensive and harmful chemicals in fruit juice clarification and combating pathogens.
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