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Old Orchard - Organics 100% Concord Grape · Mar 31, 08:41 AM

Old Orchard 100% Concord Grape
Old Orchard Organics 100% Concord Grape Juice

Received via USP Next Day
Value: $3.99
Significance: 4/5

Evaluating household items is going to difficult at times. How do you rate an item that is “improved” by changing the package size, color or usage instructions? In cases like that I probably will not see it as significant and only post its photograph, unless I want to make a point about the item and its “improvement.”

That said, I was happy to receive the 64 oz bottle of Old Orchard Organics 100% Concord Grape, it is a new product that is timely and a quality improvement.

When I was growing up an organic product was something we had shipped to our home in the Alaskan bush via barge from a co-op in Seattle, or a plant that you pulled from the garden after a summer of hauling seaweed for mulch. Our town did have a small health-food store/restaurant – but that was really only for treats, real black licorice, halva and the like. These days I have moved to the city and have nine Whole Foods Markets within driving distance – but I know my father can at least buy some organic products at each of the two grocery stores in a small Alaskan town.

Every day more stores expand their organics selection. For example here in the Washington DC area one of our local supermarkets Giant Foods (a Royal Ahold owned company) even started its own house brand of organic products. When the grocery stories see the need for off brands it means something good.

Organics is a movement that is growing rapidly, and thus Old Orchard’s new Organics product line will get them into the premium section of the store. This is good for both the company and us – the customers. They get higher sales and distinguish one of their product lines from the other mass produced juices. From the customers prospective, we get a higher quality, more heather, and no corn syrup version of a product that we already consider fairly healthy.

My impression of Old Orchard – Organics 100% Concord Grape juice was that it was not too sweet with good flavor. I don’t drink much (any?) grape juice these days, but I think of it as sweet and over powering, which this is not.

Thus the juice’s significance rating of 4/5 is based on: the company’s move to organic products, that it’s a decent goodie, and it tastes good.

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  1. Goodiesblog has promise, but you really need to grammar- and spell-check if you expect any of the companies (and readers) to take you seriously. Reading the review of the organic grape juice was almost painful. I’m not trying to be picky… but this article is full of glaring errors.
    — ben    Apr 1, 12:52 AM    #
  2. Thanks for the comment, you are very correct. My proof reader is out of town, and I was rushing to get the site switched to an old backup with at least some content. I will improve…
    — Iolaire Mcfadden    Apr 1, 12:55 AM    #