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I get that it says “flavored juice drink” now, but I was tired and the text is pretty small.
“Fruit snacks” are so much worse. It’s just candy, and inferior in taste and texture to anything made with actual fruit.
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.
Grape juice and apple juice naturally have that much sugar, even if there's none added.
I have an apple tree at home and I've tried to make apple juice. It's absulte rancid if you don't add tons of sugar. Clearly there's better kinds of apples for this, but those are also more expensive. So for the stakeholder's sake, lets add some sugar to the cheap apples and make more profit.
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
Curiously, where I am, apple juice is so easy to come by that other juices are diluted with apple juice.
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.
Pure passion fruit juice would probably cost you 10-20$ per liter and it would be waaay too concentrated.
You can cut strong juice with other juice instead of with water and HFCS. Mixing passion fruit and orange juice at a level where it still mostly tastes of passion fruit makes something nice and not so expensive that it has to be sold at a different price to other orange juice.
it would be waaay too concentrated
100% is 100%. But yeah, you probably wouldn't like the taste.
Yes. Who drinks a cup of 100% lemon juice?
Me.
A few times when I got smaller bottles of 100% lemon juice I just ended up drinking it as-is. But I'll also eat lemons if they are easy to peel.
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.
There's juice that's literally labelled in big huge text 100% juice, not from concentrate on the front of the bottle.
which is also not good for you, just to be clear.
one of my new years rezzies was to eat more fruit and it's been actually really enjoyable. Fresh mango, pineapple, cherries, grapes...
You can even go to the produce section and get relatively fresh made juices and smoothies, pasteurized and safe and in almost any flavor you want.
If you want to pay $1.50 for a half gallon, then yeah you're going to get that 10% shit.
and it's expensive! So a treat, and I like to mix it with sletzer water to help savor it and not sugar bomb myself!
Meanwhile in Canada
What Canada doesn't tell you is that they permit 10 Micrograms of Beaver Essence in all products.
On the lemonade, I assume that you are pointing out that it is cane sugar rather than HFCS?
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.
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.
I'm more annoyed that stores can have entire "juice" aisles, but only the last 10 or so ft. are 100% juice, only 2-3 ft. of which is organic. The rest are juice flavored drinks.
Why not both? Both is good
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.
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.
Aye, USA famously have terrible consumer rights so they can get away with shite like this
EU and UK (for now) have stuff like the Square Bananas act and the False Advertising act where this would be classified as illegally lying to the consumers and get the product taken off of shelves.
We even for USA imports have this policy that they must have their ingredients list covered by a more accurate sticker
100% passion fruit juice? I shudder.
I don't know how the law is where you are, but around here there's a clear and simple word for 100% juice. But we also have the "juice drink". It's a little sad because people who don't bother with such things will fall for it over and over. But once you know the verbiage it's simple enough.
What really fucks me up is how little juice there is in it, and how much fructose syrup. 😡 It's possible to produce affordable drinks that don't add any sugar. Apple or grape juice concentrate is cheap.
Just means you get corn juice in addition to all those fruit juices.
The "drink" part of the description is the give away. 66% sugar, faaaark, diabetes in a bottle. Fuck that shit.