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Wogi@lemmy.world 4 months agoMost juice has a lot of sugar. The ones that don’t don’t generally taste that good.
But bottle OJ tasting like shit is a real thing, they have to do so much to it to get it to last for more than a week on the shelf that all the flavor is sucked out of it.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
idk, I make them at home with no sugar and it’s pretty good
Wogi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah no added sugar. The juice generally contains enough sugar on it’s own. Fruit juice is about as nutritious as a soda. You’re taking the sweet part of the fruit and leaving behind the fiber and other nutrients.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Not even close. Different kinds of sugar, preservatives, and vitamins all have vastly different ratios.
Wogi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Different kinds of sugar are all sugar when they get to your gut. Anything beyond “the body treats this like sugar” is just a pissing contest.
When you juice something, you’re leaving 95% of the nutrients in the fruit, extracting the sugar water, and telling yourself you’re drinking healthy. That’s just not the case. The meat of the fruit is where that stuff is at. The fact that some of it makes it in to the juice is incidental. It would be better to drink a glass of water and eat the orange, than to juice the orange. Unless you then throw the juice away and just eat what’s left of the orange. That’s probably the best thing.
cm0002@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sugar is sugar, HFCS found in sodas and juice with added sugars is more concentrated, but your body still sees it and treats it as sugar.
Which it also just happens to see as something to hoard because for our entire evolutionary timeline sugar was a rare resource to be had. It wasn’t until the industrial revolution that we began being able to have sugar whenever and however we wanted. Which on the timeline of evolution is nothing but a blimp, a speck of sand.
KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Even 100% freshly juiced fruit with no additives is a sugar bomb.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
different kinds of sugar
KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fructose isn’t good for you, either.
Wogi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sugar is sugar.
It really doesn’t matter if it’s naturally occurring or added after the fact. It’s sugar.
Debating what kinds of sugar are better for you is kind of like debating which landmine is better to step on.
Don’t get me wrong, the occasional sugary beverage is fine. But juice is never going to be good for you. Even arguably.
mark3748@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
You’re trading HFCS for plain old sugar. Most fruits are approximately 50/50 fructose and glucose, while HFCS is between 42% and 55% fructose, with the balance being glucose.
Chemically and biologically, they are basically the same.