Simply Orange Juice Company Brazil and Mexico. Simply Orange uses a computer-modeled blending of orange juice sources, intending for the consumer to have a uniform taste year-round. The company was founded in 2001 by Minute Maid, launching three varieties of "Simply Orange" in the northeast United States. In 2002, it expanded to the southeast United States. By 2003, the company had national distribution. The three launch varieties of Simply Orange were "Original", "Original with Calcium" and "Grove Made". Simply Orange added a fourth variety in 2004: "Country Stand with Calcium". In 2006, the company expanded the "Simply" line with the launch of "Simply Lemonade"
Orange drink Orange drink The term orange drink refers to a sweet, sugary, sometimes carbonated, orange-flavored drink. Typically such beverages contain little or no orange juice and are mainly composed of water, sugar or sweeteners, flavor, coloring, and additives, sometimes in that order. As such, they are very low in nutritional value, although many are fortified with vitamin C. In 2002, however, a "cheap, fortified, orange-flavored drink" was developed with the intention of improving nutrition in the third world by adding vitamin A, iron, and iodine to people's diets. Because orange drinks can be confused with orange juice, the U.S. government requires