Florida oranges produce about three-quarters of U.S. orange-juice concentrate supplies, and imports cover the rest.

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When onions were banned, the futures marts scoured the landscape for new products: orange-juice concentrate, frozen hams, even shrimp.

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Michael Kors, PPQ, J Crew, Diane von Furstenberg, Marc by Marc Jacobs, and Oscar de la Renta proved notable exceptions to the stark palate, with oranges, blues, purples and yellows as intense as orange juice concentrate.

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Edwin Perkins, the inventor whom Hastings now proudly claims, actually spent only 11 years there: in 1931, four years after hitting on the formula to reduce juice concentrate to crystals, he moved on to Chicago, the better to distribute his product nationally.

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The Atlanta-based company claims to be the first candy maker in the world to have completely overhauled its product line--including sour Suck Ups liquid candy, Super Sweet or Sour Blast spray candy, Xtra Sour Goo and Dream Chews--in 2004 to remove all refined sugars and replace them with fruit juice concentrate.

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For the past few weeks, however, traders have had a new weapon to protect themselves against the vagaries of the apple-juice-concentrate market.

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