{"id":15716,"date":"2017-09-22T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15716"},"modified":"2017-09-21T21:50:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T01:50:55","slug":"the-economics-of-orange-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/the-economics-of-orange-juice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Orange Juice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092217_0144_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Caitlin Dewey wrote about America&#8217;s love of orange juice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>11 kilograms of orange juice is consumed per American per year, making it the country&#8217;s most popular source of fruit intake.<\/li>\n<li>In contrast Americans consume a paltry 1 kilogram of fresh (unjuiced) oranges per year.<\/li>\n<li>Orange juice made from Florida&#8217;s orange groves bring the state $900 million a year.<\/li>\n<li>Yet the OJ affair is fading \u2013 orange juice consumption is declining as people forsake sit-down breakfasts and question the health benefits of sugary juice.<\/li>\n<li>A disease called huanglongbing, which turns oranges bitter has infected Florida&#8217;s groves, putting pressure on supply, causing prices to go up.<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Irma* could be the final nail in the coffin \u2013 some estimate that as much as 70% of the harvest was lost as winds pulled unripe oranges off of trees.<\/li>\n<li>The resulting increase in price and decline in consumption could see apple juice take orange juice&#8217;s spot as America&#8217;s #1 fruit source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2017\/09\/20\/hurricane-irma-may-speed-the-end-of-orange-juice-americas-biggest-source-of-fruit\/?utm_term=.9e7454486a9a\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*There have been several natural disasters across the globe. Please consider donating to local charities. They could use your help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin Dewey wrote about America&#8217;s love of orange juice: 11 kilograms of orange juice is consumed per American per year, making it the country&#8217;s most popular source of fruit intake. In contrast Americans consume a paltry 1 kilogram of fresh (unjuiced) oranges per year. Orange juice made from Florida&#8217;s orange groves bring the state $900 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092217_0144_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15719,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions\/15719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}