How simple is Simply Orange?

I am a Northwest girl at heart, and I do my best to eat and use all-natural products and ingredients. My favorite store is Trader Joe's, and I only use soap that I (or my mother) have made by hand, using natural, trackable ingredients.

I recently stumbled across an article that details how Coca-Cola makes their Simply Orange orange juice (original investigation by Bloomberg Businessweek).

I love orange juice, and usually always have a carton in my fridge. I am picky about this as well, and don't drink anything that isn't 100% orange juice, so Simply Orange has been a past occupant of my fridge. This article, however, concerned me because it explains that in order to preserve the orange juice, the oxygen is sucked out. However, sucking out the oxygen also sucks out the flavor, so hired flavor/fragrance companies engineer "flavor packs" to reinsert the orange flavor and smell. Because the flavor packs are made of orange elements, they aren't listed on the label. But it sure isn't "all-natural" orange juice anymore.

At the end of the article, it advises us to stick to juicing ourselves, going to a juice bar, or just eating an orange. So I decided to research and see if there are ANY production orange juices that don't use flavor packs, or if it's time to buy a juicer. The orange juice I drink now is from Trader Joe's:

So I googled "Does Trader Joe's orange juice use flavor packs?"

I found this: http://www.toxinless.com/orange-juice

Someone already did my research for me! Trader Joe's, as always, proved why it is my favorite grocery store, because it does not allow the use of flavor packs in its orange juice.

So, dear readers, be careful about what you eat, because even if it isn't listed on the label, it still may be in your food.