Minute Maid's frozen juices are being discontinued

[Zorro]

Pour, or instead squeeze, one out for a childhood staple: Minute Maid’s frozen juices are soon disappearing from shelves after an 80-year run.

Coca-Cola, which owns Minute Maid, said in a statement Thursday that it’s exiting the frozen can category. That will result in its lineup of juice concentrates being discontinued in the coming months.

The changes are “in response to shifting consumer preferences,” a company spokesperson told CNN, noting that it’s “focusing on products that better match what our consumers want.”

Minute Maid sells frozen juices in a variety of flavors, including orange, lemonade, pink lemonade, raspberry lemonade and limeade. The products will last on shelves until supplies run out.

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[CousinIT]

1. Minute Maid orange juice in a carton (not frozen) also disappeared from my grocery store.

I guess they're discontinuing that, too.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Better to make more plastic bottles. There's a shortage of them . nt

[ret5hd]

7. and tote bags and those freebie water containers...

i think there is an end-of-civilization supply of all those items.

[PeaceWave]

3. I haven't drunk this crap since I started growing my own citrus.

[Torchlight]

5. Sounds serious

Good luck!

[Coldwater]

4. It' was also our childhood staple

but haven't had it in over 30 years

We used to call it Minute Mud like Mad Magazine

[PeaceWave]

6. No joke. It tastes horrible.

[PCIntern]

8. It was tangy if you drank it

Within five minutes of mixing it.

Otherwise: 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[Volaris]

11. Yeah, but we had 5 kids in our house for breakfast, so 5 min was about right..

[Srkdqltr]

9. So, its a good thing? You'll are happy with it?

[Blue Full Moon]

10. Goes with selling you as much water as possible.

[Retrograde]

41. It all comes down to the bottom line

Making concentrate and shipping it means having the facilities to do so as well as refrigerated trucks for shipping. Sending water around the country is cheaper for the manufacturer (and do they pass the savings on to the customer? Hah!). I'm lucky enough to live in an area where many stores still have fresh squeezed orange juice. It's not cheap, and the type of oranges varies throughout the year, but it's my small luxury.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. I Really Like The Lemonade

Don't buy it a lot, but I'd rather drink lemonade than any form of pop.

[twodogsbarking]

13. I was never an astronaut but I used to drink Tang.

[orangecrush]

15. Containing myself

With difficulty

[lastlib]

21. I still drink it.....

...hot on cold days. It's kinda my go-to warmup drink.

[twodogsbarking]

25. I didn't know it was still around. Short of money in college and bought the store brand. Good times.

[synni]

30. I tried to drink Tang when I was a kid

All it did was cause me to p*ss needles. I don't know what kind of chemicals were in that powder of death, but I wouldn't give it to a dog, let alone a human.

[twodogsbarking]

35. So that's what made me, well, crazy?

[twodogsbarking]

36. Well.

Tang is generally not considered healthy because it's loaded with sugar and artificial ingredients, lacking the nutrients of real fruit juice, and can lead to health issues like weight gain, dental problems, and blood sugar spikes, though it does provide Vitamin C and can help with hydration.

[orangecrush]

14. ...

[ITAL]

16. Used to drink it a lot as a kid

It was a staple in our household. Haven't had it in eons now, but it's kinda crazy it'll be going away.

[mahina]

17. Dang, there goes my favorite party punch. Pink Lemonade and ginger ale. Booooo

[debm55]

23. I used the same for my punch. Bummer.

[Totally Tunsie]

18. Too difficult to make, or did it take too much time?

[hunter]

39. That's it exactly.

No sarcasm tag necessary.

Frozen juice was a staple in my parent's freezer along with bread from the day old bakery store, fish my dad caught, and parts of dead farm animals.

[maxsolomon]

19. Thats a shame I think

It was probably too hard to follow the directions for most people. Or they don't have a pitcher to mix it up in.

Just buy juice in a giant plastic jug and toss it in the trash...

[niyad]

20. So I guess it is back to bottled orange juice for my rhubarb sauce.

[OMGWTF]

22. OH NO!

How will I make my delicious but dangerous Beerarita cocktail? Mix together one can of frozen limeade (which will also become your measuring cup), one can of water, one can of tequila, and one bottle or can of a Mexican lager or other lighter brew. Serve over ice.

[BarbD]

24. Might also be due to the loss of Valencia oranges

the choice orange for juice.

[IbogaProject]

26. only OK if you have good water to begin with

I've been fortunate to have grown up with very good water and now in Manhattan our water is decent. But if your water isn't good to begin with nothing with it will taste to good.

[Coventina]

32. I was raised on powdered milk and frozen juice in Seattle.

Once we moved to Phoenix, that ended.

The water here is liquified rock.

[Deuxcents]

27. MM was the only brand with lower acid content

I used to buy it until I could no longer find it. In general, OJ is so expensive these days

[no_hypocrisy]

28. Bing Crosby hawking MM:

[jmowreader]

33. How bad that film faded is unreal

If I didn't know that was orange juice I'd swear it was grapefruit.

[twodogsbarking]

37. Crosby's children claim he abused them. He did.

[valleyrogue]

42. Gary claimed that, and by that time or shortly thereafter he was very sick with cancer.

His brother, Phil, and of course the kids from Bing's marriage to Kathryn Grant denied it.

Consider the source. Gary wasn't reliable.

[valleyrogue]

43. He was a major stakeholder and investor in Minute Maid from the 1940s.

He was a distributor on the West Coast as well as promoting it.

[Progressive dog]

29. Doesn't affect me

I don't believe the closest supermarket to me has carried frozen orange juice concentrate in decades. They do carry orange juice (most from concentrate) which I seldom buy.

[synni]

31. I make my own fruit juice and lemonade from fresh fruit

I think many people are doing that now, instead of buying sugar-laden drinks like Minute Maid.

The people who are willing to consume that much sugar usually just buy soda pop.

[leftyladyfrommo]

34. We went thru a lot of MM frozen juice when I was growing up.

And summers we went thru a lot of lemonade. It was so easy.

[twodogsbarking]

38. Don't get cut on the lid, kid.

[Raine]

40. I wonder if that was the stuff laden with corn syrup ...

One time l was craving lemonade and bought some concentrate without thinking about corn syrup. I fixed it and ended up throwing it all out, it was just horrible. It had corn syrup in it, awful aftertaste and bad for your health.

[Ilsa]

44. I user to make frozen margaritas with the MM Limeade.

Certainly not as good as fresh limes, but on a Friday night after work, who cares?