Which really blows some people's minds. "Well it's a little bit orange." No it's not, not your regular American bottled or fresh OJ. Straight-up yellow.
(Not denying there are varieties that produce more orange-color juice, like tangerines. But that's not what's on 99% of Americans' breakfast tables.)
If there's a language in the world where the color and the fruit aren't the same word, I've yet to learn it.
What's funny is that most people don't seem to realize that that the color of the juice isn't the color of the rind.
Just look at illustrations of orange juice on Google Images:
https://www.google.com/search?q=orange+juice+illustration&tb...
Most of them are showing an orange liquid that matches the color of the orange rind. It's hilarious. Because somehow, most people don't realize orange juice is yellow, even though they might drink it every morning.
The fruit has the color orange when it's ripe. It's probably one of the most orange things you'll see on nature.
But most people don't even eat it ripe (throwing it away before that point), and the association between the fruit and the color just flies over a lot of people's heads. And yeah, the internals of most of them are yellow.
That I have seen
Well, it wouldn't be that weird if you were right because we name fruit juices after the fruit, not the juice color, but I’ve never seen orange juice that wasn't distinctly on the orange side of yellow, even if its more yellow than orange, including fresh and bottled American orange juices.
Sure, almost nothing is perfectly a 60° hue of yellow. But the color orange is all the way at 30°.
And if you look at the HSL values of the juice in product photos like the following, you'll get hue values of around 52°:
https://www.amazon.com/Tropicana-Orange-Juice-No-Pulp/dp/B07...
https://www.amazon.com/Simply-Orange-Pulp-Juice-Drink/dp/B07...
That's just straight-up part of the band that we call yellow.
For comparison, here's the first result for "banana" in Google Images:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/building-a-bet...
It's 48°, even closer to orange than orange juice. Yet nobody goes around insisting that bananas are "on the orange side of yellow".
It's a case of linguistics somehow trumping what we literally see with our own eyes. It's actually quite astonishing how strong the effect is, even when it's pointed out to you.
wait what? I never seen orange juice that was not yellow (in Canada and Brazil)
So if you were to ask me the color of orange juice in Hungarian, I would reply "sárga", which is true, as it could be either "yellow" or "orange". Many people would still say it is "orange yellow" though, because the name of the color has "orange" (narancs) in it.
But if you ever look inside of a fresh North American blueberry, they're pale green! European blueberries might actually be blue inside, I'm not sure.
They’re red inside
Modern american orange juice looks especially funny because (I thikn) of all the added calcium- it's more of a whitish orange which I find really off-putting.
