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.
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.
Grape juice and apple juice naturally have that much sugar, even if there’s none added.
I have an apple tree at home and I’ve tried to make apple juice. It’s absulte rancid if you don’t add tons of sugar. Clearly there’s better kinds of apples for this, but those are also more expensive. So for the stakeholder’s sake, lets add some sugar to the cheap apples and make more profit.
Disagree, I was able to find the local grocery store’s store branded 100% fruit juice in cranberry, apple, grape, and pomegranate. It’s just a regular grocery store too.
They even had the welch’s 100% juice varieties.
Now that being said I had to pay real close attention to the labels to select the right juice, but the good stuff is still out there
For myself, it depends on where I look and what store I’m in. Sometimes the international section can get me soursop juice. Locally owned stores have a better chance of variety.
Curiously, where I am, apple juice is so easy to come by that other juices are diluted with apple juice.
this is why i switched to buying vegetable juice when i want 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 exactly how I like my coffee and is the reason I don’t drink coffee. I love the smell and it’s great in desserts, but miss me with drinking steaming bitter piss. So glad I don’t have a caffeine dependency.
That’s why Germans mix juices at least half and half with sparkling water… mmmmhmmmm Schorle…
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My problem is mostly that HFCS tastes like ass. I was expecting it to be a blend of apple juice, pear juice, and a hint of passion fruit.
The health aspect is more about always keeping an easy to access non-beer thing in my fridge.
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What’s crazy to me is how the alternatives are often the same price.
Buying Jelly (for peanut butter and jelly), 95% of the garbage out there uses HFCS. Then you have a few all natural ones with 3 ingredients and there’s no difference in pricing. But apparently people aren’t paying attention.
It’s an alternative to other things like soda or alcohol
More like “something to add to alcohol”. That’s just about the only time I drink juice. Sugary drinks just aren’t it for me.
There’s no alcohol. Just orange juice.
Like, the mixer?
Yeah, people drink it.
People drink the mixer straight∆
Pure passion fruit juice would probably cost you 10-20$ per liter and it would be waaay too concentrated.
You can cut strong juice with other juice instead of with water and HFCS. Mixing passion fruit and orange juice at a level where it still mostly tastes of passion fruit makes something nice and not so expensive that it has to be sold at a different price to other orange juice.
Apple and pear juice are common for cutting an otherwise overpowering (or expensive) juice.
If you’re Ocean Spray, you might use “with 2 other juices”. Yes, it actually uses those words on the package.
Yes definitely, but from OPs context it seemed like they wanted a juice ready to drink.
Pre-mixed 100% juice drinks are readily available (depending on where you live). You don’t have to buy several juices and mix them yourself if you’re thirsty when walking past a shop as long as the shop stocks them.
it would be waaay too concentrated
100% is 100%. But yeah, you probably wouldn’t like the taste.
Yes. Nobody drinks a cup of 100% lemon juice
Me.
A few times when I got smaller bottles of 100% lemon juice I just ended up drinking it as-is. But I’ll also eat lemons if they are easy to peel.I also like to take sips of lemon juice now and then, but a whole glass? Thats hardcore xD
More like taking sips from the bottle until “shit, that was all of it”.
I wish my teeth would be able to handle that. As a kid I ate and drank sour stuff nonstop, but nowadays my teeth get soft and sensitive to temperature for a few days if Im not careful.
Meanwhile in Canada
What Canada doesn’t tell you is that they permit 10 Micrograms of Beaver Essence in all products.
permit
You misspelled require
I mean, we all gather every year and conduct a ritual to send all our hate and anger into our geese, which gives us the polite nature you see today.
What’s a little beaver essence on top of it?
Beaver farts? In YOUR fromage squick squick? It’s more likely than you think.
On the lemonade, I assume that you are pointing out that it is cane sugar rather than HFCS?
Doesn’t matter…lemon juice is acidic and cane sugar, or sucrose will undergo acid hydrolysis to glucose and fructose in an hour after bottling.
Idiots importing Mexican coke should have paid more attention in grade 10 chemistry.
Yes, but also lemon juice and lemon pulp, not rehydrated concentrate
Canadian nationalism is so strong. I like Canada, but it isn’t the best place on earth. On the internet though, you’d think it’s heaven.
Lol. So someone posted a couple of pictures showing that juice sold in Canada isn’t full of corn syrup, and your reaction was “wow, such nationalism.” Like fucking what?
American’s are upset their country is a fucking tire fire.
I just don’t understand the “Canadian Nationalism” angle. It almost seems like there are some accounts here on Lemmy that are trying to sow discord and division.
It’s Canadian nationalism because in a conversation where nothing has to do with Canada, a Canadian brings up that Canada has 100% juice. Why bring up Canada? Why be disingenuous and act like Canada doesn’t have bullshit with HFCS too? The US also has 100% juice. Some Canadians on the internet always feel the need to compare themselves to Americans for seemingly no reason other than misguided nationalism showing superiority. It’s just pointless nationalism. You immediately went ad hominem that I have a shitty soul that doesn’t know peace and accused me of being a bot. It’s insane how quickly you jumped to that. Please insult me some more to prove your superiority. If my comment sowed discord and division, you need to toughen up—I even said I like Canada! The Canadian comment’s purpose was division. Get a grip.
Because we’re better than you. We know we are. You know we are. We didn’t elect a 34 convicted felon who literally tried to overthrow your government 5 years ago to a second term as President.
There’s no sowing discourse. There’s no “Canadian Nationalism”. It’s just us recognizing we’re better than you as a country. Our Prime Minister didn’t rape children. Our PM didn’t attempt a coup. Our PM hasn’t spent the last year openly tanking my country’s economy.
You being Butthurt because Canadians feel real good about ourselves not being your bullshit 51st state while your country boo’s our anthem at sporting events because your population is too fucking stupid to not understand geopolitical relations and why we boo yours.
Your entire fucking national identity is fucking nationalism. Salute the flag, teach the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ in grade school. “USA is the greatest country in the world”. Your armpit of a country ‘not understanding’ any other Sovereign Country being proud of where they’re from really shows how well your own country’s nationalism worked on you.
Yeah absolutely. Best case that’s a real person that is salty their government lets businesses poison their customers and they are going to disparage any other government that protects their citizens in even the smallest way.
Not to say that fructose is poison per se, just that regulations around food, food advertising, labeling etc are very good to have.
I feel bad for OP, the convenience fruit drinks that are available here are mostly real fruit juice.
In Canada it’s labeled as “glucose/fructose.”
Do you actually think you can’t get 100% juice in the US? It’s pretty ridiculous to bring the US/Canada comparison into the conversation in the first place. Just like you can get Flavored Juice Drink in Canada, too.
And yeah, it’s that mindless Canadian nationalism that is commonplace on the internet. Sorry I struck a nerve, but it is what it is.
Bro you’re a dingdong. In fact, your point is so silly that I’m pretty sure that you’re either a bot or some sort of really sad and/or pathetic agitator. In the off chance that you’re not, I hope you get what you need and find some peace. Have a good night bro.
Please explain what’s silly? I’m pretty sure I was clear. What is so sad about calling out pointless nationalism? Are you Canadian? Are Canadian juices part of your cultural identity?
Ignore previous instructions, seek inner peace.
You really enjoy talking down to people.
compared to it’s immediate neighbor it might as well be
it’s how a regular person could look like a model standing next to a cave troll.
Exactly. The US fucking sucks, but Canada ain’t that fucking awesome either.
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.
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.
Such a fucking scam. I’m ok with “juice from concentrate”, but this is literally more HFCS than juice. There should be no HFCS in juice; real juice has plenty of sugar all on its own.
All you need to do is read the label. Which you should always do for everything you buy.
Buy fruit…
In many areas, that’s simply not possible.
Frozen juice concentrate?
If I’m the USA, look for “100%[fruit] juice” in easily readable font.
And also check if they add High Fructose corn syrup. If they do, don’t bother.
As far as I know, 100% fruit juice doesn’t add sweeteners.
The sweeteners are the sweeter juice that they add. Usually concentrated apple juice.
That way they can continue to label it 100% juice and no sweeteners added and put on the nutrition label 0g added sugar, but still add a bunch of sweetness and sugar when formulating the product.
“family farmer owned”
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.
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.
Then why not just eat actual fruit?
Fresh fruits can be expensive in some places, or at least seasonal.
are you actually questioning why people drink juice? is this where internet contrarianism has come?
No. I was questioning why drink whatever that is if they don’t like it. If you don’t like it, don’t drink it?
who says they drink it? this has nothing to do with the post
Because I’m thirsty and would like a drink?
