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ORANGE JUICE, Hand Pressed and Pulp Free:
I eat one fresh ORGANIC orange per day, Valencia or Naval, small/medium size, heavy, thin skin, cut in half and each half pressed into juice and strained through a fine-mesh strainer into a measure cup, the skins and pulp discarded, 7 oranges per week.
The pressed juice amount from one fresh orange is about 1/8th to 1/3rd cup or so. It seems like a small amount but it is full of correct fiber, vitamins and minerals.
I recommend only consume more juice than this (maybe as much as a quart a day if needed, some with added salt) if you have an acute metabolic problem you are trying to solve within a week or a month.
Such a situation would be for example, beginning to use a thyroid supplement and your adrenaline is out of balance you can use more juice to calm that down, or a situation with acute food poisoning or something like that.
Consuming a larger quantity of juices can otherwise cause insulin or other imbalances.
Years ago, purchasing ready-made pulp-free juice, frozen or fresh, even “Minute Maid” was widely and cleanly available. By at least 2007 and probably before, the orange juice industry began to use commercial enzymes to dissolve the pulp and it was added back into the finished juice. It solved a problem of pulp waste. But it created a huge health problem.
Pulp from the oranges, which is produced from both the pith and the juice cells membranes and sections, when consumed on a regular basis can cause intestinal irritation and even hemorrhoids.
And the enzymes (similar to what happens when cheese is made from enzymes instead of real animal rennet) that is used to dissolve the pulp back into the juice instead of straining it out and discarding it, can cause additional allergic reactions, including causing colon bleeding in some people.
Today, I would not trust purchasing organic, pre-bottled, fresh squeezed orange juice from health food stores unless I could stand at the pressing machine and see it being made in front of me (some of the Booths grocery shops in England have this available).
Some people have purchased such fresh squeezed and bottled orange juice and were successful re-filtering it by still pouring it through a fine mesh strainer before consumption.
Hand orange juice press.
Unless you have $800 or more for a commercial, electric orange press (not masticator) that can press dozens of oranges in a session, the best option is to find online a $100 hand press with a lever. The orange should not be torn apart to juice it.
We want pulp free orange juice so it will be pressed and then poured through the small strainer into a glass, daily.
The small electric, inexpensive masticating juicers pulverize the pulp and membranes. You don’t want that. Eating that pulp daily can cause hemorrhoids.
If your hands weakness and aches will not allow you to use such a press, you can alternately look for a centrifugal juicer that doesn’t grind up all the pulp but still strain what is expressed.
Here is a short 3 minute video showing how to press and strain a fresh orange into pulp-free juice:
