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
For myself, it depends on where I look and what store I’m in. Sometimes the international section can get me soursop juice. Locally owned stores have a better chance of variety.
Curiously, where I am, apple juice is so easy to come by that other juices are diluted with apple juice.
this is why i switched to buying vegetable juice when i want juice
It is approx 9 teaspoons of sugar per 300ml bottle. Typical tea
cupmug is 250-300ml. Imagine putting 9 teaspoons of sugar in your tea or coffee. Fucking gross.That’s exactly how I like my coffee and is the reason I don’t drink coffee. I love the smell and it’s great in desserts, but miss me with drinking steaming bitter piss. So glad I don’t have a caffeine dependency.
we have “100% juice” here which can only have fruit concentrate (or puree depending on the fruit) and water. that’s the only kind that i buy. i still have no idea why you would add sugar to fruit.
This shit isn’t even labeled as juice. All it says is “passion fruit.” I guarantee it looks like Kool Aid. This is gas station shit.
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.
From the UK have to ask, why do Americans put up with corn syrup in absolutely everything? Like seriously fruit juice has to have it??
Some juices aren’t sweet enough on their own, cranberries being a major example. For those juices, some sweetener is added.
If the consumer doesn’t care, it is high fructose corn syrup because it is cheap. If consumers do care, they will claim it is 100% juice and use apple juice as the sweetener since apple juice is relatively cheap and neutral tasting.
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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.
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What’s crazy to me is how the alternatives are often the same price.
Buying Jelly (for peanut butter and jelly), 95% of the garbage out there uses HFCS. Then you have a few all natural ones with 3 ingredients and there’s no difference in pricing. But apparently people aren’t paying attention.
YMMV it seems like the “natural” product is 2x the price of the “store brand.”
It’s an alternative to other things like soda or alcohol
More like “something to add to alcohol”. That’s just about the only time I drink juice. Sugary drinks just aren’t it for me.
There’s no alcohol. Just orange juice.
Like, the mixer?
Yeah, people drink it.
People drink the mixer straight∆
Then why not just eat actual fruit?
are you actually questioning why people drink juice? is this where internet contrarianism has come?
No. I was questioning why drink whatever that is if they don’t like it. If you don’t like it, don’t drink it?
who says they drink it? this has nothing to do with the post
Fresh fruits can be expensive in some places, or at least seasonal.
Because I’m thirsty and would like a drink?
Meanwhile in Canada
What Canada doesn’t tell you is that they permit 10 Micrograms of Beaver Essence in all products.
I mean, we all gather every year and conduct a ritual to send all our hate and anger into our geese, which gives us the polite nature you see today.
What’s a little beaver essence on top of it?
permit
You misspelled require
Beaver farts? In YOUR fromage squick squick? It’s more likely than you think.
On the lemonade, I assume that you are pointing out that it is cane sugar rather than HFCS?
Doesn’t matter…lemon juice is acidic and cane sugar, or sucrose will undergo acid hydrolysis to glucose and fructose in an hour after bottling.
Idiots importing Mexican coke should have paid more attention in grade 10 chemistry.
Yes, but also lemon juice and lemon pulp, not rehydrated concentrate
Canadian nationalism is so strong. I like Canada, but it isn’t the best place on earth. On the internet though, you’d think it’s heaven.
compared to it’s immediate neighbor it might as well be
it’s how a regular person could look like a model standing next to a cave troll.
Exactly. The US fucking sucks, but Canada ain’t that fucking awesome either.
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.
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.
Apple and pear juice are common for cutting an otherwise overpowering (or expensive) juice.
If you’re Ocean Spray, you might use “with 2 other juices”. Yes, it actually uses those words on the package.
Yes definitely, but from OPs context it seemed like they wanted a juice ready to drink.
Pre-mixed 100% juice drinks are readily available (depending on where you live). You don’t have to buy several juices and mix them yourself if you’re thirsty when walking past a shop as long as the shop stocks them.
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.
They just have the things people buy. Sugar water seems to be what people prefer over real juice, so that’s what they make and sell in higher quantities.
Education is probably the answer here, because people assume it’s healthy. We’d definitely need better regulation on package labeling too.
They stock things they make more profit on. If the margins on sugar water are much higher, then they don’t need to sell as much to make it worth stocking it instead of juice. If the margins are higher because consumers are unaware they’re being sold a cheaper-to-manufacture product for the same price because the packaging is deceptive to anyone who hasn’t been told they have to look or is in too much of a rush to have time to look, then shops end up full of sugar water that few consumers actually want.
You’re only allowed to like what I like!
Most Americans would benefit from taking a look at a nutritional label once in a while. I couldn’t give two fucks that someone has THE AUDACITY to make a.sugary drink and give someone the chance to purchase.
Simply Apple Juice is pretty clean and I don’t think there are added sugars if you like apple juice.
Still plenty unhealthy, sugar is absorbed way faster than just eating an apple.
But yeah still more healthy than something that contains HFCS as second ingredient (and thus after water the highest contributing ingredient…)
Well the post was about juice. So I commented about juice.
Eating an apple doesn’t quench my thirst though
You might’ve heard of it, there’s something that is called water, probably the healthiest you can drink. Otherwise you could eat multiple apples but at some point it gets unhealthy again (still contains quite a bit of fructose…)
If in the USA, look for “100%[fruit] juice” in easily readable font.
And also check if they add High Fructose corn syrup. If they do, don’t bother.
As far as I know, 100% fruit juice doesn’t add sweeteners.
The sweeteners are the sweeter juice that they add. Usually concentrated apple juice.
That way they can continue to label it 100% juice and no sweeteners added and put on the nutrition label 0g added sugar, but still add a bunch of sweetness and sugar when formulating the product.
Yes, you can get the 100% juice label by taking (e.g.) cranberry concentrate and the reconstituting using (e.g.) apple juice instead of water, adding calories and sweetness without adding a (non-juice) sweetener.
On top of that, most of the juice aisle does not even qualify for the “100% juice” label.
Gotta read the fine print on the label AND the government labeling regulations AND have some level of trust in the government to get what you want from a mass-market product. Local products and producers are not a panacea either.
But, I’m going to overdose on ACE-K given the amount of Zero Sugar Mtn. Dew I think, so I’m not going to shame anyone for their favorite juice, whether it is “100% juice” or not, from concentrate or not, or whatever.
All you need to do is read the label. Which you should always do for everything you buy.
Buy fruit…
In many areas, that’s simply not possible.
Frozen juice concentrate?
