Fruit juices with little or no fruit content

Tangible

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2031218/Childrens-fruit-drinks-contain-just-5-fruit--all.html

Some have no fruit, but plenty of added sugar.

:T sarcastic.

browneyedbazzi

Does a fruit shoot say it's fruit juice anywhere on it???

I think not.

It's false advertising if something says it is one thing but is another. There are plenty of fruit flavoured things that have no fruit content at all and are perfectly legal. Products are required to have labels that include details of their contents so that consumers can inform themselves about the content of the product. Read them!

browneyedbazzi

http://www.fruitshootusa.com/moms/

It claims to be a fruit drink...with 10% fruit juice from concentrate.

There's a big difference between a fruit juice and a fruit drink. If you are concerned about the content of foodstuffs you really should read the labels properly.

paddyrg

Rackat wrote: »

Fruit Shoot claims to be fruit juice though!

I don't think I've ever seen that claim - it claims to be 'fruit shoot', not juice. Can you link where they claim it is juice? That's very very naughty indeed if they are.

Anyone remember Sunny Delight's debacle back in the ooohhh 80's or 90's or somewhere round there?

browneyedbazzi

And I suppose you believe everything you read in the Daily Fail??

They aren't particularly well known for journalistic integrity and this looks like a (not unusual) case of them spinning a story to make a shock headline rather than objective reporting of the truth.

Tangible

This is the article as reported by the Press Assocation

http://www.pressassociation.com/component/pafeeds/2011/06/09/fruit_juice_has_too_much_sugar?camefrom=health-wire

Fruit juice has too much sugar and should not be one of our "five-a-day" health foods, according to research.

Actually the report is suggesting that even natural unsweetened fruit juice contains too much sugar and that, as many contain little or no fruit, it may appear a healthy option when plain water would be more healthy.

Researchers are encouraging parents to give their children water instead of "healthy" fruit drinks. Natural fruit juice, as well as carbonated drinks and cordials, are all "too high in sugar and too sweet", according to the findings.

Humphrey10

Tangible wrote: »

Actually the report is suggesting that even natural unsweetened fruit juice contains too much sugar and that, as many contain little or no fruit, it may appear a healthy option when plain water would be more healthy.

It does amuse me when people go to extreme efforts to avoid added sugar in food, and then drink loads and loads of sugar in the form of fruit juice. I have no idea what they are thinking, fruit juice tastes sweet, so of course it is full of sugar. It's irrelevant whether is is 'added' or not, it has the same effect on the body.

esuhl

Humphrey10 wrote: »

It does amuse me when people go to extreme efforts to avoid added sugar in food, and then drink loads and loads of sugar in the form of fruit juice. I have no idea what they are thinking, fruit juice tastes sweet, so of course it is full of sugar. It's irrelevant whether is is 'added' or not, it has the same effect on the body.

The sugar is different, though, isn't it? Most added sugar is sucrose and fruit sugars are fructose.

I really don't know much about the differences, but I remember reading about the fact that there are separate recommended maximum intakes of sucrose and sugars that are naturally present in food. The "scandal" was that many companies just add together the two figures to provide an overall maximum, allowing them to say that their product contains (say) 50% of your (overall) sugar allowance, rather than 80% of your sucrose allowance...

I always take such recommendations with a pinch of salt... Hang on - that can't be healthy!

vyle

Kinda related. The other day I bought a blueberry juice drink from Costa. It was named "Blueberry juice," so when I had a look at the label, I was suprised to see that it was 3% blueberry juice, 70% apple juice, 20% "mixed fruit" and 7% water. Or something like that, but those ratios.

Still nice drink though.

Humphrey10

esuhl wrote: »

The sugar is different, though, isn't it? Most added sugar is sucrose and fruit sugars are fructose.

Same difference, really. They are all just carbohydrates:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrate

Fruit, rather than fruit juice, is better because of all the extra fibre etc, fruit juice has quite a lot of this healthy stuff removed, but keeps the sugar.

Assuming your pancreas isn't half dead and you are not resistant to insulin, all these things are fine in moderation. Just don't go drinking pints of fruit juice all the time then wonder why your blood sugar is high and your teeth have fallen out.

missesther

Humphrey10 wrote: »

Just don't go drinking pints of fruit juice all the time then wonder why your blood sugar is high and your teeth have fallen out.

The fruit acid will do that as well - always good to wash down with a glass of water .

And Fructose is different to sucrose. Sucrose is an easier to digest sugar and so can be easily metabolised and used by the body. Fructose is more complex and so is slightly better as it can't be so quickly taken into your blood. Also Fructose is actually sweeter than sucrose so you find in diet/lite products, the sucrose is replaced by fructose as you use less of it to achieve an equally sweet taste.