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.
R.W. Knudsen Family makes juice without all the bullshit. Ingredients in their mango juice: Mango Juice (Filtered Water, Mango Juice Concentrate), Mango Puree.
I really like mango juice. I gave it up for nearly a decade because at the time, the only thing available was GOYA brand, and I’ve been boycotting them since they teamed up with the KKKomander in Cheto. (Plus the GOYA brand had lots of sugar added.) My grocer started carrying this brand, and it’s fucking delicious.
Your best bet is to start looking into organic brands of 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 why Germans mix juices at least half and half with sparkling water… mmmmhmmmm Schorle…
Buy fruit…
In many areas, that’s simply not possible.
The “100%” on the front is very tricksy and wouldn’t fly in the EU.
It was deliberately put there to trick people into thinking 100% fruit content, but it’s actually whatever they could find in there that had anything to do with 100%.
Here, there’s always the fruit content up front, wether it’s 1%, 10%, 50% or 100%
Huh? It very clearly states it’s the vitamin c content. “Vitamin C” takes up more space than 100%.
The only scenario where that’s confusing is if you’re illiterate.
That is true, but it doesn’t mean the psychology in the design isn’t preying on people being stupid
Meanwhile in Canada
Juices like this also exist in the US…
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.
