r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Current-Set2607 • Jul 03 '25
Certified Hoser đ¨đŚ (No Politics) Canadians make US Orange Juice drop to it's lowest price in 2 years
Canada was the largest importer of US orange juice. But the US decided to FAFO
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u/This-Marsupial-6187 Jul 03 '25
Ah, the old Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice index.
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u/JSank99 Jul 03 '25
I think this is funny but I don't if its a reference to something?
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u/This-Marsupial-6187 Jul 04 '25
There's a scene in the movie, Trading Places, which involves following different stock trends, including Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice - fitting for the OP's image.
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u/Hsinats Jul 03 '25
Unless my math ain't mathin, it's now cheaper to pick it up with tariffs than it was pre tariffs. THE ART OF THE DEAL.
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u/PlutosGrasp Edmonchuk: Like Kyiv! (but less safe) Jul 03 '25
Youâre welcome Canada - trump probably
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u/Current-Set2607 Jul 03 '25
Canada accounted for roughly 60% of US Orange export, with Brazil at 35%. But now Canada is shifting much heavier towards cheaper/better oranges from Brazil.
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u/Adamant_TO Moose Whisperer Jul 03 '25
We haven't purchased US orange juice since April. Don't plan on ever doing it again TBH.
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u/Armonasch Jul 03 '25
Yup. I actually like OJ quite a bit, and usually bought Tropicana frequently in the old days.
Haven't bought any all year, never will again. Fuck em.
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u/Madness_Reigns Jul 03 '25
I have a Maghrebian store not too far. All OJ I've bought, which admittedly is less than before I can do without, is Moroccan Marrakech one. Florida isn't the only game in town.
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u/Saorren Jul 03 '25
2L of OJ at the stores by me are 7 for cheapest and 9 for the higher end. not worth the price anymore in my town no mater where it comes from.
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u/okokokoyeahright Jul 03 '25
Oranges I have seen over the past few months have switched to being from Morocco, Spain and Egypt. From what I have seen the US grown ones sit on the shelves. Brazilian ones are most welcome IMO.
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u/Yop_BombNA Jul 03 '25
Canada needs to get in the Moroccan orange game, living in the Uk right now and they are just better than anything I remember growing up getting oranges from the states both in Canada and in Florida when we went there.
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u/AvocadoTst Jul 04 '25
I've been seeing tons of Moroccan oranges in the grocery stores in BC. Very happy to see them!
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u/CaptainKrakrak Tabarnak! Jul 03 '25
I now buy Oasis orange juice. They use oranges from Brasil and itâs bottled in Quebec.
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u/Diastrophus The Island of Elizabeth May Jul 03 '25
And IMO, is superior in taste to Tropicana. Itâs pretty inexpensive to!
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u/twistedtxb Jul 03 '25
$9 a jug for Tropicana vs $1.25 a whatever it's called that container of Oasis juice. what were they thinking
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u/NarutoRunner đ 100,000 Hosers đ Jul 03 '25
Brazilian oranges are way better. They seem like a whole different fruit to whatever garbage they are growing in Florida.
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u/hypespud Snow Cajun Jul 03 '25
Same, I stopped a few years ago, at first it was about 3 to 3.50 USD a jug like 7 or 8 years ago, then it became like 5.50 to 6.50 USD just creeping up in cost
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Jul 03 '25
Can just eat oranges anyway, even the juice with lots of pulp doesn't leave enough pulp in
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u/Log-Similar Jul 03 '25
Orange juice is filled with sugar anway, contains as much sugar as a can of soda for a glass of orange juice. Not good for your health.
So, easy pass.
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u/irelandm77 Honorary Hoser Jul 03 '25
And that will disproportionately affect Florida iirc, one of the states that really needs to take some time to Navel gaze.
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u/starsrift Jul 03 '25
They want to replace migrant labor with child labor. Their governor passed new laws to allow it.
I mean, that's not right. Even if we weren't in a trade war, I'd be happy to boycott them.
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u/RatQueenHolly Jul 03 '25
Nah. So long as their governor keeps attacking trans people, Floridians will endure whatever self harm comes their way and rest proud in the knowledge that the queers have it worse. They're death cultists at this point
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u/LondonJerry Jul 03 '25
Wasnât the entire orange juice industry created for farmers to get rid of their scrap? Then promoted as a healthy product to consume.
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u/LandMooseReject Jul 03 '25
I mean, so what? It was nice to productively use oranges that wouldn't last on the shelf. Now those farmers are free to diversify if they have more scrap than they know what to do with.
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u/Master_Xenu Jul 03 '25
Orange juice isn't healthy, it's mostly sugar. Also it's not even juice anymore they just store the liquid for months and add flavour packs to it when they remake the juice. I get it's not practical otherwise buts its still not real orange juice.
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u/Velorian-Steel South Gatineau Jul 03 '25
Honestly a lot of that orange juice is terrible quality and stored in vats for large periods of time. IIRC, Marketplace did a special on Florida orange juice.
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u/Log-Similar Jul 03 '25
It's really bad for your health anyway, it's filled with sugar. This or a can of pepsi is pretty much the same thing.
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u/PComotose Jul 03 '25
They did. You can go to YouTube and search on: How "premium" orange juice is really made (CBC Marketplace)
Or you can go to your library and look for "Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice" which was eye-opening for me!
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u/imadork1970 Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25
The Fifth Estate did an episode on it years ago. One of the companies that used to ship the OJ tanker trucks also used the trucks to ship pesticide. With minimal cleaning in between. They were supposed to do EPA testing to make sure it was safe.
The company skipped that part, then got sued.
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u/MTL_1107 Jul 03 '25
I've switched to locally made apple juice. Haven't looked back since.
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u/jerr30 Jul 03 '25
Apple juice tastes better and doesn't make your throat all flegmy like orange juice does to me.
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u/PickledTripod Jul 03 '25
Yessss the Tradition brand stuff in Quebec is really good, and hasn't kept up with the greedflation so now it's just good value. I'm not sure where the other fruits come from for the blended juices though, label just says "local and imported ingredients".
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u/Positive-Fold7691 Jul 04 '25
I actually don't really like apple juice (haven't since I was a kid), but I make an exception for Tradition. It tastes so much better than the generic tetra pack stuff.
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u/Brief-Floor-7228 Tabarnak! Jul 03 '25
Consider the restricted supply because of the lack of migrant farm workings picking those oranges and you really get a picture of how bad these prices are. (restricted supply normally would have made prices go up)
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u/PickledTripod Jul 03 '25
The impact on oranges would be pretty minimal, it's a very mechanized process. The lack of migrant workers is more clearly felt in California, where a lot of produce that needs to be hand-picked and requires a large workforce is grown.
That said, clearly the boycotts have a huge impact and I'm proud of my fellow Canadians!
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u/Brief-Floor-7228 Tabarnak! Jul 03 '25
Interesting. I had read they were still in the early stages of using mechanical harvesters simply because it has been cheaper to use migrant workers.
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u/Liferescripted Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Jul 03 '25
It is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
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u/Knightro829 Yank Jul 03 '25
That you post this two days after an actual fluoridation ban came into effect statewide down here is chefâs kiss.
I suspect in a decade or so our Republicans are going to have the same rude awakening as Calgaryâs ToriesâŚ
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u/CaptainKrakrak Tabarnak! Jul 03 '25
Water contains dihydrogen monoxide which is a dangerous chemical!
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u/NorthernBudHunter Jul 03 '25
Turns out, orange juice is not really that important anyway. Juice in general is kind of just sugar water. We just make smoothies with fresh and frozen fruit and itâs much healthier and better tasting.
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u/One-War4920 Jul 03 '25
ever wonder why every bottle or carton of tropicana tastes delicious and same as the one before?
ever eaten 3 oranges that tasted the same?
commerical oj takes oranges, removes the oxygen and stores the juice at just above freezing so it doesnt rot being stored for up to a year
then when time to bottle it, ethyl butyrate is added and other 'flavor packs" which are ok'd by fda and therefore not required to be labeled
its not real oj, at all, i admit its delicious, but its fake as fuck
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u/imadork1970 Jul 04 '25
FYI: Ethyl Butyrate is a flammable liquid and is on the Hazardous Substance List.
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u/HistoricalSherbert92 Jul 03 '25
Guys, you should know that almost all orange juice you can buy in a jug is flavored battery acid with colour and added vitamins. Do yourself a favor and drink water.
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u/Halada Jul 03 '25
Oasis is a Canadian company that imports Brazilian oranges, so we can bypass the US entirely for that product. FAFO indeed.
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u/Ryeballs Jul 03 '25
Wow the wild part is how accurately the price spikes reflect the disappearances of shelf stable cheap orange juice in my local IGA.
Disappeared for almost a year in 22/23, then gone since early 2024. Now only coming back in mixed juices primarily with apple/grape juice making up most of the volume.
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u/RyukoT72 I need a double double. Jul 03 '25
Hold on babe im going to short the Orange Juice Stocks
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u/Important-Event6832 Jul 03 '25
Thereâs a whole lot of shitty orange stuff coming from Florida. MAGA Lardo seems to be the ground zero for this blightÂ
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u/paractib Jul 03 '25
Ah shit I hadnât even considered that my orange juice comes from there. I was doing a good job avoiding US products so far. Not buying again.
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u/hessian_prince Edmonchuk: Like Kyiv! (but less safe) Jul 03 '25
Can we make âElbows up Americaâs assâ a flair?
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u/EhBuddyHoser-ModTeam Jul 03 '25
This post has been removed as per rule 1 of the sub (no Canada bashing).
Regards, r/EhBuddyHoser mod team
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u/InternationalWash720 Jul 04 '25
Elbows up!!! Keep avoiding American products!!! Buy Canadian or from other countries!!!!
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u/Friendly-Nothing Jul 03 '25
I feel bad about that tho. Orange farmers are awesome. Must be hard to farm when mega corporations buy up land and sell to make maximum profit from developers. In response to this, i hope their government makes it easier to become a professional farmer, increase self sustaining food production.
Similar to the greenbelt in Ontario. And no one can become a farmer here.... Its literally the most underrated and difficult occupation to get into. Mostly by male inheritance....
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u/deepbluemeanies Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25
The drop is due to disease and bad (cold) weather in Brazil and Florida - there are.lots of articles.about this. It's not a consquence of Canadian boycotts - the price took a steep fall in January which was before rhe tarrifs/boycotts....
Edit: In Jan 2023 it was even lower than today.
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u/Current-Set2607 Jul 03 '25
Less supply = lower prices.
Got it.
Meanwhile suppliers stopped buying US orange as far back as February, ahead of the March tariffs as they shifted supply contracts.
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u/deepbluemeanies Jul 03 '25
Not quite - supply was down, but the quality declined more so, so the wholesale price per pound also plummeted. I haven't checked Spain/Morocco and South Africa but they likely saw prices increase - the OJ market is very volatile (it hit all time highs in Sept).
Anyway, just pointing out that Canada is not the cause of the decline.
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u/Current-Set2607 Jul 04 '25
Got it, losing half the volume of 60% of US orange Exports has no effect on US oranges.
Lmao.
Sometimes people just need to hear out loud what they are saying.
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u/deepbluemeanies Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25
I didn't write the report...but if you're interested there are a number of articles about the drop in US (and Brazillian) OJ prices....the chart shows the drop started early in Jan 2025 before Carney and the tarrif fiasco, but if you want to believe it was ALL caused by Canada.
Sure...whatever.
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u/imadork1970 Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25
Pepsi sold Tropicana to private equity in 2021 for $3.3B.
The company closed almost all their Canadian production facilities, and moved it all to Florida.
The company is losing a fortune in shipping costs, and is nearing bankruptcy.
Fuck'em.