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Fruit juice means fresh fruit juiced without adding any sugar right? Some people refer to fruit juice as the ones you see in tetrapacks. Real fruit juice is ve

Fruit juice means fresh fruit juiced without adding any sugar right? Some people refer to fruit juice as the ones you see in tetrapacks. Real fruit juice is very much different from soda pop.

lkbm 5y ago
If we're just looking at sugar content, it's really not that different. Pepsi has ~11% more sugar than fresh apple juice: 25g of sugar in 285g of juice[0] = that's 37 grams in 355ml of juice[1] vs. 41 grams of sugar in 355ml of soda[2], which is 110.8% more than the juice[3]. The half gram of fiber probably makes it little better, but it's still a very sugary drink. [0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fresh+apple+juice+nutrition https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fresh+apple+juice+nutr... [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=25*(355%2F240) https://www.google.com/search?q=25*(355%2F240) [2] https://www.pepsi.com/#!products/pepsi https://www.pepsi.com/#!products/pepsi [3] https://www.google.com/search?q=41%2F37 https://www.google.com/search?q=41%2F37
- throwawayciv651 5y ago
  I might be remembering the details wrong, but I heard an actual doctor saying there is difference between fresh fruit juice and soda pop. I found this that seems like what the doctor said, but I'm not sure. Click on 'transcript' and read it. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/if-fructose-is-bad-what-about-fruit/ https://nutritionfacts.org/video/if-fructose-is-bad-what-abo... Edit: Other than this, fresh fruit juice contains minerals, vitamins, antioxidants etc etc.
- drekk 5y ago
  High fructose corn syrup is not the same thing as fructose, all other things being equal. Fiber also helps modulate the insulin response. Sugar isn't the enemy, if you're eating fruit you're getting a lot more than fructose from it. The problem is when people get a large % of their calories from nutritionally deficient food, like soda.

Fruit juice means fresh fruit juiced without adding any sugar right? Some people refer to fruit juice as the ones you see in tetrapacks. Real fruit juice is very much different from soda pop.

lkbm 5y ago

If we're just looking at sugar content, it's really not that different. Pepsi has ~11% more sugar than fresh apple juice: 25g of sugar in 285g of juice[0] = that's 37 grams in 355ml of juice[1] vs. 41 grams of sugar in 355ml of soda[2], which is 110.8% more than the juice[3]. The half gram of fiber probably makes it little better, but it's still a very sugary drink. [0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fresh+apple+juice+nutrition https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fresh+apple+juice+nutr... [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=25*(355%2F240) https://www.google.com/search?q=25*(355%2F240) [2] https://www.pepsi.com/#!products/pepsi https://www.pepsi.com/#!products/pepsi [3] https://www.google.com/search?q=41%2F37 https://www.google.com/search?q=41%2F37

throwawayciv651 5y ago
I might be remembering the details wrong, but I heard an actual doctor saying there is difference between fresh fruit juice and soda pop. I found this that seems like what the doctor said, but I'm not sure. Click on 'transcript' and read it. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/if-fructose-is-bad-what-about-fruit/ https://nutritionfacts.org/video/if-fructose-is-bad-what-abo... Edit: Other than this, fresh fruit juice contains minerals, vitamins, antioxidants etc etc.
drekk 5y ago
High fructose corn syrup is not the same thing as fructose, all other things being equal. Fiber also helps modulate the insulin response. Sugar isn't the enemy, if you're eating fruit you're getting a lot more than fructose from it. The problem is when people get a large % of their calories from nutritionally deficient food, like soda.