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Comment by joezydeco | Hacker News Reader

...Produce Packs, which to be clear, contain nothing but fresh, raw, organic chopped produce, not juice

...and then posts a video of a disassembled pack of mushy carrot pulp. That was really your best option here?

Right, the difference seems minimal. When you start with a whole carrot, or a whole orange, there's the obvious advantage of greatly reduced surface area plus the plant's natural outer layer. Keeps everything fresh.

Blending it into fine pieces removes all that. The bags apparently aren't even vacuum-sealed (there's a "breathing hole"), so everything will be oxidizing and degrading pretty quickly. That's worse than bottled juice.

* The bags apparently aren't even vacuum-sealed (there's a "breathing hole")*

Wouldn't the content (at least the liquid part of it) leak through the hole?

But they don't pasteurize the bag's content, so it will spoil a lot faster than, say, juice you buy at a supermarket. They use their fancy QR code to make sure a bag hasn't expired, essentially providing an over-engineered solution to a problem they created in the first place.

Verging on off-topic here, but I found the video itself really odd. Why would you reach your bare hand into the bag to scoop it out rather than simply pouring/shaking the contents out after cutting it open? Perhaps they wanted to avoid any resemblance to squeezing the contents out, but it just seemed strange.

Yeah thats what I was thinking when looking at the hand squeeze video vs. the product pitch. If its just cut fruit pieces which sounds like big cuts a high power press make sense (if you ignore the price or waste of the pack) but that wouldn't be hand squeezable. If its already a pulp it make sense that you can hand squeeze it but then again why the claim that their press is so powerful if it takes longer than hand?

The blog really boggles ones mind.

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