Sunday, April 27, 2025

After orange juice, what goes well with breakfast?

 

With Tropicana in big financial trouble, and orange crops in many places facing difficulties, one has to wonder what other juice goes well with breakfast.

Cranberry juice? Pineapple juice? Apple juice?  Something else?










I grew up liking, and drinking, orange juice with breakfast. Fresh-squeezed orange juice is still a favorite of mine -- though admittedly it's hard to find juice oranges in the grocery store.

But I think I, and maybe many others like me, will change our ways. Apparently many citizens have already done so.

Tropicana is in big financial trouble

"Supply shortages in top orange-growing areas — worsened by climate change-influenced disasters like more severe hurricanes in Florida and intense droughts in Brazil — plus higher prices, competition and changes in Americans’ diets have hammered Tropicana. The Department of Agriculture expects this year’s orange production to be the lowest in 88 years."


" “Milton came across the center of the state and really impacted probably 70% of the most productive citrus acreage in Florida,” Matt Joyner, CEO of Florida Citrus Mutual, an advocacy group for growers, said last year

"And it’s not just atmospheric disasters that have devastated the industry. Orange production in the United States has declined in recent years due to the spread of citrus greening disease, a bacterial infection that cuts off key nutrients to orange trees, which first hit Florida in 2005. Trees infected with the disease produce fewer, lower-quality oranges and eventually die."

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