ORANGE JUICE

All the remarks in the article on Lemon Juice apply equally to orange juice, excepting (as noted in the article on the Orance) that the citric acid.content is lower and that the sugar content is higher—the latter especially a fact to he remembered as either an advantage or a disadvantage according to cire uni stances. The laxative properties of the juice are over-rated. It is a common supposition that it is the juice of the orange which eontains the laxative value when the fruit is taken early in the morning, and hence many people expre it into a gla to drink it—and are disappointed in its effects. Orange juice is a nutritious, refreshing, cooling beverage, but it is under some conditions inclined to he constipating rather than laxative. It is the whole flesh of the fruit which should be eaten for the latter purpose—in order to get the combination of the sugar and other components of the juice with the crude fibre, etc., of its containing matter.