The start of oranges can almost be dated back to four thousand years ago in Asia. Going by the account of the historians, in the next five hundred years, oranges can be located in Middle East and Africa as well. Eventually, as the Arabs occupied Spain around seven hundred to fourteen thousand A.D., this delicious fruit was more brought to Europe. The New World savored the taste of this fruit during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as explorers bought it with them and by 1800s, a burgeoning industry of oranges could be found in Florida.
By the 1890s, as the benefits of oranges were made known to everyone, its high Vitamin C concentration, orange juice and oranges became very popular. Another important reason that made the popularity of oranges at the time was the Vitamin C in them, which is effective in bring scurvy close to a stop, that was an alarming disease during that time.
The business of orange juice came during the 1920s and grew the drinking and eating of orange juice, especially with the improvement in the process of canning and pasteurization techniques. After orange juice started tasting better than before and was considered safe to drink.
It was during the mid-1980s when frozen variety lost some of its market share to ready-to-drink juices. Right now over 75% of the population in North America likes drinking RTD varieties only and only 25% of North Americans continue to enjoy the frozen concentrate orange juice very much.
Orange juice still is a very popular juice today. Most people like getting the high vitamin C in their daily diet.