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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Orange Juice is not meaningfully better than most sugar heavy drinks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I have this argument with my wife a lot. She says that because the OJ is natural sugar it's okay.

But the high-fructose corn syrup used in a cola is also natural sugar in the sense that it was grown on a farm. There even happens to be less of it in your average soda than in juice.

And I'm not really saying that you should drink soda instead of juice because it's healthier, but somehow fruit juice is one of those things people think is good for them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd argue that natural non filtered orange juice is healthier because you drink it with all the fiber from the fruit, making the sugar absorption slower. A non filtered OJ is closer to eating a fruit than those industrial ones that finely filter everything to be just a colored sugary water.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but how many people actually know how commercial orange juice is produced and bother seeking out the real stuff?

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300164558/squeezed/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I mean, you just need to make an OJ and drink it and then have an industrial one. The difference, even without the knowledge, is noticeable. Funny thing is, at least where I live, making an OJ at home is cheaper than buying the industrial one

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Something I like in some of Europe is that food just has a rating on it. Not only are they stricter about food pretending to sound healthy it will just straight say this juice is a D.

In the US every company spends millions to make their sugar appear more healthy and it works.