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.
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.
Just means you get corn juice in addition to all those fruit juices.
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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…)
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Eating an apple doesn’t quench my thirst though
100% passion fruit juice? I shudder.
I don’t know how the law is where you are, but around here there’s a clear and simple word for 100% juice. But we also have the “juice drink”. It’s a little sad because people who don’t bother with such things will fall for it over and over. But once you know the verbiage it’s simple enough.
What really fucks me up is how little juice there is in it, and how much fructose syrup. 😡 It’s possible to produce affordable drinks that don’t add any sugar. Apple or grape juice concentrate is cheap.
The “drink” part of the description is the give away. 66% sugar, faaaark, diabetes in a bottle. Fuck that shit.
“Juice” is mostly water and sugar. I’m not sure what you expected.
These things have so much fucking sugar in them it’s actually crazy. I had one for the first time ever about a month ago (apple flavor I think) and it was so sweet I don’t think I was able to even finish the thing. It’s insane. I had no clue they were this over-sweetened based on how often I’ve seen the brand and I genuinely don’t know how anyone drinks this stuff.
this is exactly how I feel about sugar in tomato sauce.
I make it myself and dont add sugar. Was at someones house during dinner the other week. they made food for everyone. They used Jar sauce… 8mg of sugar per 1/2cup serving of sauce. 8! And they added so much salt on top, I called it a fasting day and didnt have any supper over there
I dont understand how people live like that. Reminds me of years ago I met people who would put cows milk and sugar in their kids’ sippy cups :(
so much sugar is unpalatable.
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.
Why not both? Both is good
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.
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.
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??
There’s juice that’s literally labelled in big huge text 100% juice, not from concentrate on the front of the bottle.
which is also not good for you, just to be clear.
one of my new years rezzies was to eat more fruit and it’s been actually really enjoyable. Fresh mango, pineapple, cherries, grapes…
Mango is delicious but where I live the fresh stuff is never ripe. I have much better luck with frozen mango chunks!
“not good for you” is relative. Heavily dependent on individual case by case and against what standards. Sure, there are many better alternatives. But I’d argue there are even many more worse ones.
It’s not. Fruit juice is pretty much just sugar water. It’s really not even a healthy alternative to soda.
that is fair. I drink barley fruit juice, otherwise known as scotch.
You can even go to the produce section and get relatively fresh made juices and smoothies, pasteurized and safe and in almost any flavor you want.
If you want to pay $1.50 for a half gallon, then yeah you’re going to get that 10% shit.
and it’s expensive! So a treat, and I like to mix it with sletzer water to help savor it and not sugar bomb myself!
In Murica? Yes.
USA? Most drinks here in Canada don’t contain HFCS.
Edit: didn’t read the thread first, seems like I’m on topic.
Aye, USA famously have terrible consumer rights so they can get away with shite like this
EU and UK (for now) have stuff like the Square Bananas act and the False Advertising act where this would be classified as illegally lying to the consumers and get the product taken off of shelves.
We even for USA imports have this policy that they must have their ingredients list covered by a more accurate sticker
Was wondering about those stickers. The packaging itself doesn’t have the actual ingredients?
It does, but sometimes shortened in a way that EU law don’t allow, like instead of “flavouring A, flavouring B, preservative 1” just “natural flavourings and preservatives”
Look for 100% juice.
While you’re at it, look for “zero sugar” products. They use sucralose, which is 600 times sweeter (gram for gram) than sugar, so they use way less of it. No aftertaste either, though it doesn’t have that “sugary” flavour, so it does taste differently. After a while I just think it’s better.
