Stability of Vitamin C in Frozen Orange Juice during Prolonged Storage

The Effect of Quick Freezing on the Nutritive Values of Foods

“…Similar results were found by Conn and Johnson,31 by Nelson and Mottern 32 and by Buskirk, Bacon, Tourtellotte and Fine. 33 The last named group compared fresh orange juice with quickfrozen juice after storage from six to twenty months and found the vitamin C potency of the two essentially the same. The effect of storage at low temperature on quickfrozen blueberries, cranberries, strawberries and the juice of black currants has also been investigated.…”

Freezing Orange Juice

“…Nelson and Mottern (12), found that frozen orange juice packed with no precautions to exclude air maintains its original vitamin C content unimpaired for at least 10 months. Buskirk, Bacon, Tourtellotte, and Fine (3) report that frozen orange juice retains its full vitamin C potency when stored for 20 months.…”