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Is there a difference between natural fruit juice and the kind of "fruit juice" with high levels of marketing behind it e.g. Tropicana?
by clentaminator 11y ago
Is there a difference between natural fruit juice and the kind of "fruit juice" with high levels of marketing behind it e.g. Tropicana?
- donutdan4114 11y agoBig Beverage fruit juice may have added sugar. Regardless, fruit juice (which is fruity sugar water with no fiber), is terrible for us. Fruit was given to us in a high-fiber package, and should be consumed that way. The fiber also ensure we don't over consume. You might be full after 1 apple, which is like 1/8th a glass of apple juice. So eating real fruit, you'll get less sugar, and the fiber helps with digestion and getting the other nutrients that are in fruit.
- rMBP 11y agoRegarding "real fruit", how much sweeter is a tomato, an orange, or an apple today compared to past centuries? Haven't most if not all of the commonly available (popular) fruits today been refined through selective breeding to be more appealing to us? What was lost vs. gained in this process? (I have no idea, I'm not trying to be rhetorical. My guess is lots of more sweetness and perhaps less fiber, in a much larger fruit.)
- agumonkey 11y agoPurely anecdotal, sample of one, thing: Eating anything raw feels like free safe guard. Fiber and other nutrients quickly feel bad, your mouth say stop. You rarely eat two apples in a row and wants 2 more. Same for veggies. I believe 90% of cooking is pleasure driven (other than eating / roasting things a bit which helps your stomach apparently) and is detrimental.
- distances 11y agoAt least in EU fruit juices may not contain added sugar. Those mixes have to be called nectar, or something other like that [1]. Don't really know if there is a difference though. [1] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32012L0012 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:320...