Squeezed What You Don't Know About Orange Juice

"Behind the wholesome facade industry has created for orange juice is Alissa Hamilton's remarkable story of corporate power, marketing, trade and labor issues, and shrinking biodiversity. This story needs telling."
– Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., Yale University, co-author of Food Fight: The Inside Story of The Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It

"You won't believe how many ambushes have been sprung on the noble orange on its tortured way from the orchard to your gullet. In this exemplary, accessible commodity study and history of regulatory failure and industrial chicanery, Hamilton lays it all out. Would that every major element in our daily diet had so able a sleuth and historian."
– James C. Scott, Yale University

"Squeezed relentlessly shatters the pleasant perceptions of morning orange juice. A strikingly original history of the Florida orange juice industry, it is deeply researched, cogently argued, and altogether eye-opening. Hamilton reveals that most of the orange juice sold in the stores is not, as advertised, either fresh or from Florida, and she advances a spirited brief for the consumer's right to know the truth about the production of the foods they consume."
– Daniel J. Kevles, Yale University

"Full of zesty, fresh insight, concentrated scholarship, and unsweetened truths, Alissa Hamilton's Squeezed will give you a healthy mistrust not just of orange juice, but of corporate America's agenda for all our food."
– Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved

"Squeezed reveals that orange juice, with its image as a natural Florida product, bears the fingerprints of chemists and is often shipped from South America [...] If orange juice isn't harmful, it also isn't what it's portrayed to be. Consumers have a right to know what they're consuming, Hamilton says, and that is at the heart of her story."
– Devra First, Boston Globe

"Squeezed isn't mainly concerned with nutrition, commercial farming, or related political issues discussed on food blogs. Hamilton is more interested in social policy, how influential parties interacted to create the mass market for 'reconstituted' juice. ('Recon' superseded pasteurization, a more costly means of production.)"
– Ron Slate, On the Seawall