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Things We Ought To Know When It Comes To Fruit Drinks

March 10th, 2010

With so many drinks on the market that are labeled as juice, why do they actually contain hardly any?

The label is what always catches our eye first. And when its got pictures of fruits and the actual word juice, you are obviously going to think that you are buying a nice and healthy drink with a high percentage of real fruit juice. We tend to think that anything with fruit in is good for us.

This seems to be one of the grayest areas when it comes to label description. Juice as we know it certainly isn’t the vapid liquid which comes out of these cartons.

There may be a small proportion of fruit juice in these drinks, but when you check the small print of the label, you will be lucky to find that even reaches 50%.

So what makes up the difference? Well I’ll tell you, all manner of sweeteners, preservatives and other fancy names ingredients which they feel the need to add. There are multiple names for sweeteners, I bet you have no problem is spotting Fructose, Syrup and Sucrose on the label. These all add up to one thing; far too much sugar.

All fruits have natural sugars; that is part of why we enjoy them so much, their sweetness. The only sugar we need are these natural sugars and no extra, yet the amount that we are consuming via these drinks is staggering. If the percentage of actual juice is 30%, the other 70% is made up of all manner of additives, and most of them are sugar under different names.

Although public awareness is slowly grasping this information, there are still millions of us consuming these drinks under the misconception that are consuming something healthy. If you are on a diet and the weight isn’t shifting, these drinks will have a lot to do with it.

Juice is juice is juice, so only buy pure fruit juice with a percentage of 100%. Ignore blends, cocktails, drinks, concentrates, these aren’t pure and will contain all the ingredients that we discussed earlier.

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