Should I add water to my homemade orange juice? I am considering adding water to my fresh-squeezed orange juice. The purpose is mainly to obtain a juice that is less acidic and easier to digest. I suppose there are pros and cons for mixing water/orange juice and I am wondering if mixing them is a good idea.


Does water affect the juice's nutritive or conservative value?
If adding water is a good idea, what kind of water should I add (mineral? boiled?) and in what proportion (50/50?)?
Does water affect the conservative value:

I doubt adding water would noticeably hurt the conservation value, but you could always add it to an actual serving, instead of pre-mixing it.

Does water affect the nutritive value:

It would of course go down per serving. Less juice in the same serving means less of the nutritional / healthy stuff in said serving.

What kind of water:

I would just use plain water. Mineral will dilute the taste even more than regular water, and actually create a different kind of drink.

My take on it, and thus a personal con:

Don't do it, unless you really can't take the acidity of fresh orange juice. The cheaper hotels tend to do it to create more bang for the buck (from their perspective), and I absolutely hate it. The taste suffers, and, for me less important, the nutritional value suffers. To my mind, orange juice with water lacks everything that makes orange juice delicious.