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People below you in this thread are saying that fresh squeezed orange juice is little better than Mountain Dew. Something about nutrition makes people lose the
by nineplay 2y ago
People below you in this thread are saying that fresh squeezed orange juice is little better than Mountain Dew. Something about nutrition makes people lose their minds.
- smt88 2y agoThey are correct in terms of nutrition and sugar, but most kids can process a lot of sugar fine. Fruit has also been bred to be much sweeter and less nutritious than it was 50 years ago, so there's that too. Moderation is the key to everything.
- nineplay 2y agoI agree but no one makes headlines or sells books by talking about nuance and moderation so we get terrible advice from magazines and 'professionals' and all get steadily less healthy.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> fresh squeezed orange juice is little better than Mountain Dew A reasonable way to look at it is as a flat, fortified Mountain Dew. Great as a treat. Bad as a habit, at least with modern oranges.
- nineplay 2y agoThat is an impossibly stupid way to look at it. Food is not just a bunch of numbers on a label.
- recursive 2y agoSo what is it? And what's a smart way to look at it?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Food is not just a bunch of numbers on a label Of course not. But a kid raised on a high-sugar diet, particularly if reïnforced repetitively through habit, is going to have a tougher time eating healthy than someone who learned to see sugary drinks as a treat.
- wao0uuno 2y agoBy squeezing juice out of an orange you’re separating the unhealthy stuff from the healthy stuff. Healthy stuff then gets thrown away. Some juice every now and then won’t hurt anyone but it’s not healthy to drink it every day.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> By squeezing juice out of an orange you’re separating the unhealthy stuff from the healthy stuff You’re separating liquids from solids. They each have their merits. The problem is industrial fruit produces a juice that is unlike anything in nature vis-à-vis sugar content.
- tekla 2y agoPray tell, how is a pasteurized orange juice that removes 99% of the juice from a orange, different from a squeezed oranged juice that removes 75% of the juice from an orange. Please explain how the two sugar waters are different.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> how is a pasteurized orange juice that removes 99% of the juice from a orange, different from a squeezed oranged juice that removes 75% of the juice from an orange I said industrialised fruit to refer to the orange. They’re much sweeter now than even in the 60s. There isn’t a practical difference between store-bought and fresh-squeezed juice (that I know of) other than, in some cases, preservatives, and the fact that with fresh-squeezed juice you have a tactile measure of the fruit going into the squeeze and so don’t tend to have e.g. a kid pouring themselves a tall glass of orange juice representing the juice of ten oranges.
- pmdulaney 2y agoMany years ago, during my lunch at work, I peeled an orange and was eating it. My office mate, who was from Puerto Rico, said I was eating my orange the way his grandmother did. People his age would cut off the end of an orange and just squeeze the juice into their mouth.