# Orange juice pulp **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** soda-softdrinks\ **Created:** [November 18, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088 "2010-11-18T13:25:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/1 "2010-11-18T13:25:19Z")
A very contentious issue this one: Orange juice: no pulp, some pulp, or so much pulp you may as well just eat an orange. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/2 "2010-11-18T13:27:08Z")
Editing to make subsequent posts look like non sequitors. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/3 "2010-11-18T13:27:51Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > Did you mean to make a poll? Patience!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/4 "2010-11-18T13:28:34Z")
Vile slime. Be gone with you! (I voted no pulp, obviously). ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/5 "2010-11-18T14:18:07Z")
I like some pulp. It’s often hard to find. The Grocery stores mostly stock pulp free. I buy Florida’s Natural orange juice. Their pulp variety isn’t real heavy. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/6 "2010-11-18T14:25:37Z")
I don’t really care one way or the other. Pulp is fine by any quantity and so is the absence of pulp. People who are opinionated on this are curiously picky and extremely strange. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/7 "2010-11-18T14:28:20Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I don’t really care one way or the other. Pulp is fine by any quantity and so is the absence of pulp. People who are opinionated on this are curiously picky and extremely strange. Food stuffs does not belong in a beverage. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/8 "2010-11-18T14:33:07Z")
I don’t actually like orange juice that much, though I love oranges. But the only way I’ll drink it is “homestyle”, that is, with lots of pulp. I’m the same with everything - lemonade, limeade, I love the little surprise bits. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/9 "2010-11-18T14:36:00Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Food stuffs does not belong in a beverage. My feelings as well. If it ain’t liquid or ice, it doesn’t belong in my drink. The exception I’ll make is olives or cocktail onions in my martini, but you can take your juice pulp, bubble tea, coconut water with the bits in it, etc. and chuck it. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/10 "2010-11-18T14:45:16Z")
Years ago, I remember seeing cups with a built in strainer. A simple piece of plastic with holes. Good for homemade juice that had seeds. Also strained out the pulp. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/11 "2010-11-18T14:50:41Z")
Other. (Come on, you know there had to be “other”!) If you’re making fresh squeezed orange juice, I like a small to moderate amount of pulp - what a traditional reamer allows through is just perfect. But if it’s premade juice from the store, even the not-from-concentrate kind, I prefer pulp free. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/12 "2010-11-18T14:57:57Z")
No pulp. If I want the solids, I’ll eat the damn orange. Also, I don’t like pits, pits, pits in my juice, juice, juice. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/13 "2010-11-18T15:06:04Z")
I prefer none, and my husband prefers lots, so we buy the “some pulp” kind as a compromise. ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/14 "2010-11-18T15:10:40Z")
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Pulp… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/15 "2010-11-18T16:12:04Z")
I’m not a big orange juice drinker, but I never liked any of the supermarket varieties. There’s something about them that doesn’t quite taste like orange juice, but I can’t put my finger on it. Freshly squeezed orange juice is about the only kind I like to drink, and I can’t even remember the last time I had that. Five, maybe ten years? Still, given the choice, I like my pulp. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/16 "2010-11-18T16:22:18Z")
I grew up drinking Donald Duck frozen OJ. My mom bought it because the cheapest brands tended not to have pulp in them (well, actually she bought it because it was the cheapest brand but the no pulp was the feature of it that I liked). Anyone know if they still make that? ---
**Author:** ![Evelyn\_K.Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Evelyn\_K.Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evelyn_K.Stone)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/17 "2010-11-18T16:23:03Z")
I prefer to have no pulp, but if there is some, it’s fine. But I can’t stand pulp in heavy amounts. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/18 "2010-11-18T16:45:06Z")
I am a FL native and I grew up with orange trees in my yard. it just isn’t orange juice without the pulp. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/19 "2010-11-18T16:55:06Z")
Pulp-free orange juice is for the same people who eat strained peas out of a little glass jar. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088/20 "2010-11-18T17:08:03Z")
Pulp is delicious and chock full of orangey goodness. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orange-juice-pulp/561088.md?page=2)