Fizzy Fruit in schools

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Dec 13th 2005 @ 4:07PM

Several schools in Oregon's Greater Albany School District have recently started serving Fizzy Fruit, fruits such as grapes and oranges that have had their natural juices carbonated. The process, which involves applying carbon dioxide to fruit in a pressure controlled chamber, results in a fruit whose juices have carbonation not unlike a soda. While Fizzy Fruit has been in the research and development stages at Oregon's Food Innovation Center for several years, this marks its first public release. Commercial roll-out is still pending. If all goes well, the fizzy fruits may soon be available at schools in California and New Jersey as well.

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12-13-2005 @4:35PM Punisher2k said... This will get ME eating fruit, nevermind the kids. Sounds great. I wonder what it does to the vitamins and nutrients in the fruit though.
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12-13-2005 @6:04PM barrett said... This is not better than soda if you ask my wife, who's a pediatrician. Fruit juice in general is just sugary water, whether it came from a grape or a factory. Orange juice is just about the only juice worth giving your kids for its nutritional value, and even that in small quatities.

It's a marketing game that's convinced parents that juice is much better than soda for their kids. Give them fruit, whole and unchanged, and let them get all the vitamins and fiber.
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12-14-2005 @11:41AM Liz said... barrett, I think that what they are serving is actual fruit, not fruit juice. I went to the site (linked in the article) and read the FAQ. It seems that the fruit is intact and the water content inside has been carbonated. Now, what I want to know is, does the fruit feel or taste different when eaten? Does it look different? How will these differences encourage kids to consume the fruit?
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12-14-2005 @8:23PM Bob S. said... Moto in Chicago serves carbonated fruit. It's OK; I've had the carbonated grapes. I see their current menu mentions a carbonated fruit salsa, which might be a bit more interesting. (And to the extent this sounds like a putdown, it's more that it's really good once, but I don't really have any compulsion to have another.)

Their site's at motorestaurant.com/flash/index.html and as that implies they overuse Flash.
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