we have "100% juice" here which can only have fruit concentrate (or puree depending on the fruit) and water. that's the only kind that i buy. i still have no idea why you would add sugar to fruit.
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This shit isn’t even labeled as juice. All it says is “passion fruit.” I guarantee it looks like Kool Aid. This is gas station shit.
Part of this I believe can be attributed to labelling rules. Only the concentrate portion can be called juice.
When it is made from concentrate the reconstituting water is the main ingredient. What's shitty is that water gets more and more sugar/HFCS mixed in so less concentrate is used. Getting it down to 10% or less like that: it's just flavoring the corn.
From the UK have to ask, why do Americans put up with corn syrup in absolutely everything? Like seriously fruit juice has to have it??
Some juices aren't sweet enough on their own, cranberries being a major example. For those juices, some sweetener is added.
If the consumer doesn't care, it is high fructose corn syrup because it is cheap. If consumers do care, they will claim it is 100% juice and use apple juice as the sweetener since apple juice is relatively cheap and neutral tasting.
Then why not just eat actual fruit?
are you actually questioning why people drink juice? is this where internet contrarianism has come?
No. I was questioning why drink whatever that is if they don't like it. If you don't like it, don't drink it?
who says they drink it? this has nothing to do with the post
Fresh fruits can be expensive in some places, or at least seasonal.
Because I’m thirsty and would like a drink?
It is approx 9 teaspoons of sugar per 300ml bottle. Typical tea ~~cup~~ mug is 250-300ml. Imagine putting 9 teaspoons of sugar in your tea or coffee. Fucking gross.
That's exactly how I like my coffee and is the reason I don't drink coffee. I love the smell and it's great in desserts, but miss me with drinking steaming bitter piss. So glad I don't have a caffeine dependency.
Unless you’re looking for Apple or grape juice specifically, this is what you get. I’ve long decided to avoid juices as a result. If I want a sugar water packet, I just pack a honeycrisp apple, orange, Asian pear, plum, or a slightly overripe bartlett pear.
Apple and grape are the same
8oz of Welch grape juice has 35g sugar. 20oz of classic coke has 65g sugar. Adjusted for volume, that's 26g/8oz. Somehow fucking coke has less sugar. Apple is ironically the same as coke at 53g per 16oz
They are, however, made of the fruit they’re named after with little sugar added. That 8oz is about half a pound, and half a pound of grapes is calorically comparable. I’d guess that the apple/juice situation is similar but it’s harder to ascertain because of variation.
We’ve cultivated tree candy, and I can’t see it any other way.
Disagree, I was able to find the local grocery store's store branded 100% fruit juice in cranberry, apple, grape, and pomegranate. It's just a regular grocery store too.
They even had the welch's 100% juice varieties.
Now that being said I had to pay real close attention to the labels to select the right juice, but the good stuff is still out there
Meanwhile in Canada


Juices like this also exist in the US...
Give it a year with the way your country is massively declining. Soon the FDA will classify straight sugar water is "juice".
In the country where pizza is a vegetable, you're probably not far off. Soon enough they'll all be drinking Brawndo and water will be known only for being in toilets.
I think you mean "straight high fructose corn syrup water".
What Canada doesn't tell you is that they permit 10 Micrograms of Beaver Essence in all products.
I mean, we all gather every year and conduct a ritual to send all our hate and anger into our geese, which gives us the polite nature you see today.
What's a little beaver essence on top of it?
Cheap fruit drinks have been this way for the last half century, probably longer.
There's not going to be a major health difference between chugging this shit and fruit juice in terms of how much sugar you're taking in, your body doesn't really care where the sugar comes from, it acts the same inside you. An 8 ounce glass of Welche's Corn Syrup versus an 8 ounce glass of fresh squeezed orange juice are both going to be basically 8 ounces of candy. The orange juice just has more vitamin C and maybe some pulp to slow down the sugar spike in your blood if that's an issue for you.
"Real" fruit juices might have added vitamins or even some amount of fiber, but fruit juice is generally not a healthy drink. It's an alternative to other things like soda or alcohol but you don't reach for a fruit juice bottle for daily hydration. Drink more water, then whatever sweet treats you want on occasion.
A fresh piece of fruit is a bit healthier because it has all those vitamins and minerals and fiber which is good for you, and the fiber content slows down the rapid sugar digestion. But again, it's all carbohydrate calories, that's the area you should be focused on more than if something is "natural."
My problem is mostly that HFCS tastes like ass. I was expecting it to be a blend of apple juice, pear juice, and a hint of passion fruit.
The health aspect is more about always keeping an easy to access non-beer thing in my fridge.
Such a fucking scam. I'm ok with "juice from concentrate", but this is literally more HFCS than juice. There should be no HFCS in juice; real juice has plenty of sugar all on its own.
There's juice that's literally labelled in big huge text 100% juice, not from concentrate on the front of the bottle.
Pure passion fruit juice would probably cost you 10-20$ per liter and it would be waaay too concentrated.
Then look left 2 feet and buy anything but this trash.
Skill issue.
Or perhaps we shouldn't create a society where buying juice requires having and using a skill.
Simply Apple Juice is pretty clean and I don’t think there are added sugars if you like apple juice.
Still plenty unhealthy, sugar is absorbed way faster than just eating an apple.
But yeah still more healthy than something that contains HFCS as second ingredient (and thus after water the highest contributing ingredient...)
Well the post was about juice. So I commented about juice.
USA? Most drinks here in Canada don't contain HFCS.
Edit: didn't read the thread first, seems like I'm on topic.
In Murica? Yes.
These things have so much fucking sugar in them it's actually crazy. I had one for the first time ever about a month ago (apple flavor I think) and it was so sweet I don't think I was able to even finish the thing. It's insane. I had no clue they were this over-sweetened based on how often I've seen the brand and I genuinely don't know how anyone drinks this stuff.
All you need to do is read the label. Which you should always do for everything you buy.