Unpasteurised Fruit Juice

[Elizabeth10]

Can anyone help?
I have consumed 2 bottles of unpasteurised orange & orange/raspberry juice from M&S.

I am only 5 weeks pregnant and panicking that I may have given my baby toxoplasmosis or listeria. Please can anyone advise on the chances of catching either from unpasteurised fruit juice.

Thank you a very panicked mom to be.

It wouldn't have occurred ot me that it would be a problem. Afterall, you could have squeezed some oranges, put the juice in the fridge and drunk it 2 days later. I've never heard of fruit carrying listeria and toxoplasmosis is normally in soil- which is not normally on oranges or raspberries. If you are very worried, look at the FSA website, but I think you'll be fine.

For a start, at five weeks your baby isn't really living off the placenta/what you eat yet (which is why binge-drinking before you know you're pregnant doesn't hurt the baby ). And second your chances of catching any type of food-bug from fruit juice are practically zero - when fruit goes off it ferments, it doesn't become poisonous. I really wouldn't worry about pasteurisation - it kills all the vitamin C in fruit juice anyway. You wouldn't pasteurise an orange, would you?

For what it's worth I've never taken the slightest notice of food guidelines and dd is fine.

Fruit juice and fruit is all I could consume when pregnant with my first, and it is looking the same with this one too, my dd is neally 3 and she is fine I drink almost a carton of fruit juice a day sometimes more x

You cannot possibly have given your baby toxoplasmosis or listeria from drinking unpasteurised fruit juice. Any more than you could suffer these things as a result of eating oranges or raspberries. Plus the juice you chose was almost the best sort for you.

Freshly squeezed unpasteurised juice will be the most nutritious form of juice you can buy, since very little of the vitamin C it contains will have been destroyed. Some juice brands like Tropicana are pasteurised in order to give them a longer shelf-life. The bulk of the juice we buy in tetrapaks off the shelf will have been ultra heat treated and is effectively sterile. But also comparatively low in nutrients (although vitamin C is often added back into these products).

It is preferably to drink pasteurised milk in pregnancy because milk can be contaminated with listeria. There is no equivalent risk with fruit juice.

Hi,

Thank you all so much for your comments you have really helped.

I know I sound paranoid but I have waited so long to reach this point that I'm paranoid about everything.

Thank you again x

@Elsa123

It wouldn't have occurred ot me that it would be a problem. Afterall, you could have squeezed some oranges, put the juice in the fridge and drunk it 2 days later. I've never heard of fruit carrying listeria and toxoplasmosis is normally in soil- which is not normally on oranges or raspberries. If you are very worried, look at the FSA website, but I think you'll be fine.

Hi! I’ve drank Tropicana 100% pure pressed orange juice and I’m concerned that it isn’t pasteurised. Im 29 weeks pregnant and really paranoid It’s going to harm the baby