I took "tax sugars in fruit" to mean a tax on a whole banana or other whole fruit based on its natural sugar content. It's well-known that the fiber in fruit ma

I took "tax sugars in fruit" to mean a tax on a whole banana or other whole fruit based on its natural sugar content. It's well-known that the fiber in fruit makes eating the whole fruit much better than drinking fruit juice. Adding grape juice or apple juice to a snack or drink would still be considered an added sugar on the nutrition label under FDA guidelines[1]. The reason they do that is often to make sure "sugar" isn't the first ingredient in the ingredient list, which have to be listed in decreasing order of weight[2]. Note that the ingredient list and the nutrition facts label are two different things. 1. https://www.fda.gov/food/new-nutrition-facts-label/added-sugars-new-nutrition-facts-label https://www.fda.gov/food/new-nutrition-facts-label/added-sug... 2. https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/how-read-food-and-beverage-labels https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/how-read-food-and-beverage-la...